What Happens When Preventing Problem Behaviours is Delivered with Mastery

What Happens When Preventing Problem Behaviours is Delivered with Mastery

The most effective way to reduce inappropriate behaviour is to implement strategies that prevent behaviours from escalating. This allows the teacher to spend more time on instruction and less time addressing misbehaviours.

Implementing strategies that prevent problem behaviour allows the teacher to avoid troublesome situations by reminding, reinforcing and redirecting students towards expected behaviours. Preventing problem behaviours also helps the teacher to achieve other successes in the classroom such as teaching for the full period and promoting a positive high-expectations classroom.

Teachers can accomplish the prevention of problem behaviours by using a variety of strategies.  These strategies include prompting, pre-correction, addressing the first signs of problem behaviour, and incorporating intermittent breaks. Teachers can use Strategies for Preventing Problem Behaviour Chart for reminders on how to incorporate techniques that prevent problem behaviours.