The number of times a teacher compliments or recognizes a student’s good behavior, compared to how often the teacher reprimands the student, the more likely that student is going to stay focused on ...

Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

Research from BYU professor Paul Caldarella found that when teachers praise students more often than correcting them behavior improves dramatically. Students speaking out of turn, texting, telling ...

In many elementary schools, it's easy to know who the class clown is, because on a thermometer cutout on the wall, a clothespin with their name is clipped to the red zone. Likewise, it’s easy to see ...

In addition to asking public K-12 teachers about issues they see at their school, we asked how much each of the following is a problem among students in their classroom: Some challenges are more ...

Student behavior is a popular conversation among teachers, leaders and consultants. It’s hard to teach students content when student behavior distracts us from doing our job. Some teachers will seek ...

The authors examined the conditions that promote or discourage engagement in the classroom among kindergarten students. Engagement included learning behaviors (on-task behavior) and pro- and ...

This school year, students nationwide have been filmed swearing at teachers, flipping over desks, and committing physical violence. Poor behavior in schools is not new, but educators’ testimony and ...

One of the most vexing dilemmas for teachers is finding the best way to respond to students who misbehave. Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict ...

The start of a school year means a new seating chart for each classroom—full of students that the teacher likely hasn’t met. Without knowing the students, how does a teacher know where to assign their ...