Modify Environment
Recommended Practice: Modify the classroom learning environment to decrease problem behavior.
- Overview & Tools: Video overviews and professional development materials
- Learn What Works: Expert interviews about modifying the classroom learning environment
- See How It Works: Videos and sample materials from schools
Modifying the Classroom Environment to Reduce Behavior Problems
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > Overview & Tools
This multimedia overview describes strategies teachers can use to improve their classroom environment and to foster positive behavior.
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Overview
Modifying the Learning Environment to Reduce Problem Behavior
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Hear Dr. Douglas Cullinan describe ways in which educators can support positive and orderly behavior in the classroom by managing time, space, rules, and routines.
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Expert Interview
Observing Classroom Management and Organization Practices
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > See How It Works
See how teachers serve as coaches and work with their colleagues to implement the schoolwide behavior program. Coaches observe teachers and help them refine their instructional practices and...
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School Example
How to Build a Positive Classroom Environment
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > See How It Works
Watch a video about the strategies one school uses to foster a positive classroom environment. Teachers at this school promote a safe classroom environment by creatively placing classroom...
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School Example
Behavior Matrix
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > See How It Works, Reducing Behavior Problems > Schoolwide Approach > See How It Works
Staff at Hidden Hills Elementary have designed a behavior matrix which divides rules into three categories: rules that aim to promote (a) a safe school environment; (b) healthy and socially...
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Sample Material
Passport for Positive Behavior
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > See How It Works, Reducing Behavior Problems > Schoolwide Approach > See How It Works
Each student at Hidden Hills Elementary School receives a passport at the beginning of the school year, and every page of the passport represents a different location on school grounds. After...
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Sample Material
Raising Healthy Children: Coach's Checklist
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > See How It Works
Coaches at Everett Area Elementary School use this document to measure teachers' progress in implementing the key components of its schoolwide approach to reducing behavior problems. The school's...
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Sample Material
Classroom Management Checklist
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > Overview & Tools
This tool provides a checklist for teachers who would like to improve their classroom environment. The checklist is designed to ensure that all aspects of the classroom environment are considered:...
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Tool
Behavior Feedback Cards
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > Overview & Tools
Use these worksheets to set behavior expectations in the classroom and provide feedback to students and their families regarding student behavior.
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Tool
Learning Together: Promoting a Positive Classroom Climate
Reducing Behavior Problems > Modify Environment > Overview & Tools
Use this tool to provide a workshop for teachers on improving the classroom environment. Workshop participants will learn approaches to making their classroom a more positive place and brainstorm...
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Tool
