Behavior Management - Strategies and Tools for Middle School and High School

Add this to your classroom management tools so you spend less time managing distracting behaviors and more time engaged in teaching and learning! This Behavior Management Plan will help decrease off-task behaviors and increase on-task learning with sequential strategies that empower teachers to focus on positive interventions and consistent consequences so you can care for little problems before they become big problems.

Whether you're looking for more behavior management ideas to include in your toolbox or you're looking for a complete overhaul of your current system, consistent implementation of this plan will significantly increase positive student-teacher interactions and decrease negative behaviors and referrals. This teacher resource is a perfect addition to to your classroom management binder, teacher tools binder, sub folder, or substitute teacher survival guide.

THIS BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT PLAN:

• Includes best practices
• Empowers teachers to consistently implement high behavior expectations
• Is categorized into four tiers with scaffolded behavior interventions
• Is specifically tailored to middle school and high school
• Is an effective supplement to your school-wide behavior management plan
• Includes every behavior challenge I've encountered in over two decades of teaching
• Helps teachers adjust responses and interventions as behaviors escalate and de-escalate
• Equips teachers with more than 50 interventions and strategies to use in the classroom before referring students to counselors or administrators.
• Clearly informs students and parents what the consistent consequences will be for behavior choices.
• Gives teachers a common language to use when conferencing with students, parents, paraprofessionals, teaching assistants, Special Education teachers, consultants, and counselors.
• Provides best behavior practices for teachers to reflect upon as they formulate their professional development and/or reflective journals.
• Blends beautifully with inclusive classrooms, as the interventions include numerous effective differentiation strategies!
• Provides a framework of practical strategies and consequences to document when completing paperwork for Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs).
• Empowers administrators with a clear and concise way to help teachers deal with behavior issues before they escalate to an administrative referral.

THIS CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT PLAN INCLUDES:

• 2 checklists that can be used to keep your behavior management plan on-track and to document your strategies and interventions for observations, parent-teacher conferences, and student support meetings.
• 4 pages of densely-packed, scaffolded interventions.
• An overview of the Behavior Management Plan and how to use it effectively.

FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This absolutely saved my life this year. (MsGTeachesStuff)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The strategies are so practical and easy to implement into the classroom. The lay out is clear and really systematic. One of my favorite products that I have purchased. (Joanne C.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Extremely comprehensive, with solutions that can work in many different classrooms. I got this after a terrible day with my worst class. This helped me set out a behavioral plan for my class and they have been doing better ever since! (Inspired English Teacher)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Having some tools to use to respond to their behaviors in a way that won't exacerbate the situation is very helpful. I've been through the trainings, and I've been to the workshops, but having the information in a quick reference that I can copy and include in my students' folders is extremely helpful! (Virginia B.)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Absolutely wonderful! I am huge on escalating rules and consequences, and this was exactly what I was looking for! Very thorough, well-thought out behavior management plan. Couldn't have found a better one on the site! (Anna W.)

LOOKING FOR MORE?

If you're looking specifically for tools such as reward coupons and behavior journals, you may also be interested in Tools for Positive Behavior Management in Middle School.

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