Classroom Behavior Quiz

While going over announcements at the beginning of the day, Ms. Rollison notices that Lissa is whispering to her friend. As Lissa continues to whisper, Ms. Rollison pauses for a moment, makes eye contact with Lissa, and continues to go over the announcements. Realizing that Ms. Rollison paused and made eye contact, Lissa stops talking to her friend and faces forward in her seat.

• Proximity control

• Planned ignoring

• Signaling

• Interest boosting

Knowing that today’s lesson would be challenging, Ms. Rollison added a few silly cat memes to her presentation slides the night before. As Ms. Rollison expected, a few students became frustrated when they had trouble with the assignment. Asking the class to pause for a moment, Ms. Rollison shows her students the cat memes and everyone begins to laugh.

• Planned ignoring

• Interest boosting

• redirecting

• use of humor

Guillermo stares dreamily out the window while the class reviews yesterday’s homework assignment. Noticing that he is distracted, Ms. Rollison calls on him to answer question #2.

• removing object

• Interest boosting

• redirecting

• Hurdle help

Sonja has a habit of quietly humming to herself when she writes in her notebook. Although Ms. Rollison notices her humming, other students continue to focus on their work. Sonja continues to hum for another moment, shifts around in her seat, and then falls silent.

• planned ignoring

• signaling

• proximity control

• Use of humor

Weston puts his head down while the class reads a short story aloud together. When Ms. Rollison calls on a classmate to read the next paragraph, she walks near Weston’s desk and pauses. Noticing that his teacher is near, Weston picks up his head and begins to follow along while his classmate reads aloud.

• hurdle help

• proximity control

• removing the object

• redirecting

Valencia is clearly upset when she walks into Ms. Rollison’s classroom. As students are completing bell work, Ms. Rollison writes a message on a sticky note that says, “Ms. Donelson has a library book I need. Can you get it for me quickly?” and puts it on Valencia’s desk. Valencia returns a few minutes later with the book and sits down, clearly in a better mood.

• antiseptic bouncing

• proximity control

• removing the object

• redirecting