Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

Many parents and caregivers struggle to manage aggressive behavior in children. These are the situations that can deteriorate ...

Children often express emotional pain through behavior before they can explain it. Emotional safety in classrooms can ...

Millions of classrooms throughout the U.S. and internationally have begun adopting computerized apps (e.g., ClassDojo) to provide students with rewards and punishments as a part of classroom ...

Teachers are used to dealing with the occasional class clown—but what happens when most of the class requires that level of handling? Classroom disruptions and poor behavior have been on the rise, ...

A new Iowa law gives teachers more input when handling disruptive students. Educators say the change could improve classroom ...

One of the most vexing dilemmas for teachers is finding the best way to respond to students who misbehave. Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict ...

There are many different ways of dealing with a “bad” student who acts out in class. While some may suggest out-of-school suspension, others argue that such severe punishment sets misbehaving students ...

Student behavior in the classroom is not improving, and teachers want parents to do more. An Education Week survey released this month found 64 percent of teachers reporting classroom behavior has ...

When your elementary school-aged son gets in trouble for acting up in class or playing too rough with another student, you might not be surprised if the teacher keeps him in from recess. But what if ...

She challenges beliefs that low socioeconomic status, race, learning disabilities and lifestyle are to blame for behavior problems in the classroom. If you are under the assumption that ...