8 NEW Characteristics of Middle School Kids: What Can We Do?
Adolescent students have become more vocal and less compliant. At times, they’re refusing to work or just “checking out” even while physically present in class. Apathy, absences, and tardies are at an all-time high. Simple tasks have become battles, and students seem to have lost their ability to “do” school effectively. This article explains ways to respond to change the behaviors.
Author: Jack Berckemeyer
Publication Date: February 2024
Publisher: Association for Middle Level Education
10 Positive Classroom Management Strategies
This article discusses classroom management is a skill developed over time. The more experience you gain in the classroom, the more effective you are likely to become at encouraging students to meet or exceed expectations. However, even if you’re just getting started in your teaching career, you can apply the classroom management strategies offered.
Publication Date: June 2024
Publisher: College of Education, Grand Canyon University
25 Best Classroom Management Strategies Every Teacher Should Use
These classroom management strategies involve techniques educators can employ to effectively manage and minimize disruptions, allowing teachers to focus on delivering content and students to engage in meaningful learning.
Author: Taqwanda Hailey
Publication Date: December 2023
Publisher: Schools That Lead
Are Fewer Students with Disabilities Suspended When Schools Implement PBIS?
This evaluation brief explores the relationship between schools’ implementation of Tier 1 support within a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework and the proportion of students with disabilities suspended.
Authors: Brandi Simonsen, Jennifer Freeman, Anthony Gambino, Sandra Sears, Katharine Meyer,
and Robert Hoselton
Publication Date: November 2021
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
Classroom Behavior Management (Part 1): Key Concepts and Foundational Practices
This module overviews the effects of disruptive behaviors as well as important key concepts and foundational practices related to effective classroom behavior management, including cultural influences on behavior, the creation of positive climates and structured classrooms, and much more.
Publisher: IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University
Classroom Behavior Management (Part 2, Secondary): Developing a Behavior Management Plan
Developed specifically with 6th–12th grade teachers in mind, this module reviews the major components of a classroom behavior management plan that includes rules, procedures, and consequences and guides users through the steps of creating their own classroom behavior management plan.
Publisher: IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University
Classroom Management for Middle and High School Classrooms
This video offers ideas to make simple changes to entice students to group cooperation and increase ease for the instructor. These flexible ideas can be utilized by every teacher regardless of the subject being taught.
Author: Ann Reynolds
Publication Date: March 2023
Publisher: Ed Leaders Network
Classroom Management Strategies for Difficult Students
This article suggests specific strategies that integrate knowledge and skills from education, counseling, and psychotherapy to help teachers develop a strong management system based on the development of personal relationships with students. These techniques are specifically adapted for use by teachers and more clearly delineate the nature of developing relationships and deepening them for the purpose of making education more effective.
Authors: Mary Ellen Beaty-O'Ferrall, Alan Green, and Fred Hanna
Publisher: Association for Middle Level Education
Implementing Student Behavior Supports to Improve the Success of Middle Grade Students
Research-based principles and practices related to school leadership and student behavior supports can be applied in middle grade education to improve student outcomes. School leaders and teachers can consider these strategies for establishing a positive climate for learning and for assisting students in demonstrating positive behavior. These research-based strategies enable middle grade students to have the behavior skills they need not only for high school success, but also success in postsecondary education and/or future careers.
Authors: Robert Balfanz and Dan Scully
Publisher: Middle School Matters Institute
Positive Behavior Strategies: A Guide for Teachers
This article describes positive behavior strategies that encourage teachers to see behavior as a form of communication. Every behavior sends a message about what a student needs. Some messages are easy to read. Some need more deciphering. Instead of reacting to challenging behaviors, teachers can proactively reduce them. Using positive behavior strategies can help teachers understand the message behind the behavior to better support students.
Author: Amanda Morin
Publisher: Understood
Sense of Belonging: What Every Middle School Educator Needs to Know
This webinar shares about the importance of sense of belonging for middle school students and strategies for teachers and school leaders to improve it. The webinar includes a brief introduction to the Data-Informed Leadership for Equity partnership which supports school leaders in using data to reduce disparities in sense of belonging, disciplinary actions, and attendance among middle school students.
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences
Students Experiencing Bullying
This information sheet is designed to help teachers respond to students who bully others, students who are bullied, and students who are bystanders. It identifies characteristics of in-person bullying on school grounds, cyberbullying, and what teachers can do to facilitate positive relationships.
Publication Date: October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Students Experiencing Stress
This information sheet is designed to help teachers play an important role in assisting students who are expressing stress by providing emotional support, promoting positive peer relationships, and connecting students with other professionals in the school who may be helpful resources. It identifies how students may express stress in school and what teachers can do.
Publication Date: October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Students Exposed to Trauma
Trauma exposure is common for students. This information sheet explains what trauma is, how it might be expressed by students in school, what teachers can do, and when students require additional support to guide them to professionals who can be of assistance.
Publication Date: October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Supporting Schools During and After Crisis: A Guide to Supporting States, Districts, Schools, Educators, and Students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Framework
This guide describes the use of a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) framework to restart classrooms and schools in a manner that all students, families, and educators are supported effectively, efficiently, and relevantly.
Authors: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, State Implementation and Scaling
Up of Evidence-Based Practices Center, National Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Research Network, National Center on Improving Literacy, and Lead For Literacy Center
Publication Date: Revised October 2022
Publisher: University of Oregon
Teaching Responsibility With Problem-Solving Conferences
Teachers can help students learn to take responsibility for their missteps and demonstrate socially responsible behaviors through the use of problem-solving conferences. This article offers specific steps that help students take responsibility for their behavior.
Publication Date: March 2024
Publisher: Responsive Classroom
Using Office Discipline Referrals as a Behavioral Screener: Considerations From NCII and the Center on PBIS
Recommendations are given for using office discipline referral data as part of a gated screening process within clear schoolwide behavioral expectations, consistent and operationalized definitions for behavioral infractions, and systematic procedures for collecting and analyzing discipline data.
Publication Date: October 2020
Publisher: National Center on Intensive Intervention and The Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
What Is PBIS?
This webpage explains Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based, tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioral, academic, social, emotional, and mental health. When implemented with fidelity, PBIS improves social emotional competence, academic success, and school climate. Links to additional information offer tools, publications, presentations, and videos.
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
Why Prioritize Behavior Support?
This brief describes why it is critical to continue to prioritize behavior support in addition to academic, social, and emotional supports. With effective behavior support implemented within a PBIS framework, rigorous research has demonstrated that students and educators experience positive outcomes.
Publication Date: March 2021
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon