Schools across the state are testing different strategies to improve behavior, and boost social and emotional well-being in the classroom Pennsylvania is getting into the business of teaching behavior ...

Most educators are great people who dedicate their lives to teaching the youth, but state records show there is a very small percentage who use their role as a way to prey on victims. The News 3 ...

Teacher evaluation has, until recently, been a symbolic act largely without meaning or consequence. No longer. Race to the Top requirements call for performance-based pay. The Bill & Melinda Gates ...

Research in Higher Education, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1986), pp. 115-127 (13 pages) This study tested for differences between instructors in three college faculties in the frequency with which they exhibited ...

Instead of waiting for something to go wrong with behavior, spend time preemptively giving attention to behaviors that you ...

Every parent has offered incentives: “If you’re patient while I get the tires rotated, we’ll get ice cream afterwards.” Or, “if you play nicely with your cousin, you can use the iPad before dinner.” ...

BROCKTON — Brockton Public Schools is eliminating five teaching positions and 17 stipends that teachers receive for taking on additional duties — known as "floor teacher" positions — at the elementary ...

Operant conditioning is a procedure for controlling behavior, explored and exploited most notably by B. F. Skinner, followed by many subsequent researchers. It involves shaping the behavior of an ...

A Virginia high school teacher posted a video criticizing the concept of students behaving themselves and sitting quietly in class as part of White supremacy. "I stated that PBIS is White supremacy ...

Many children who have known little other than a pandemic world are struggling to socialize and share and sit still. They’re shy or uncomfortable or fussy in playgroups and classroom activities. They ...