Retro SET: The BM series

What posts appeared in the SET series about behavior management?

In the fall of 2021, I wrote a series of Special Education Today posts about classroom or behavior management. They covered both theoretical and practical considerations. In preparation for some additional posts about teaching behavior, I went back to review them.

In this post, I provide simple recaps of what appeared in that series with links to each of the posts¹

1. Behavior management #1: Introduction of critical ideas: What is some of the conceptual background for this series of posts? This post was published 19 September 2021 and in it I provided thoughts on scientific background and clinical relevance.

2. Behavior Management #2: Core concepts in behavior management: More conceptual background to help educators plan for managing behavior and instruction. In this post from 27 September 2021 I described the relationships among (a) a scientific orientation, (b) types of knowledge, (c) big ideas, (d) big ideas about behavior, and (f) teaching and the overall content about behavior management.

3. Behavior management: #3: So, where do fundamental concepts like reinforcement and discriminative stimuli fit in here? In this post from 3 October 2021, I examined the critical interplay between behavior and environment…it’s key to the entire game.

4. Behavior management: #4...edging toward practice: A few seconds of teaching, learning, and understanding! In a post published 09 October 2021, I tilted into a discussion of antecedents, behaviors, and consequences.

5. Behavior Management #5: ABCs about misbehavior in more detail: How should we assess behavior's causes? Applying the concept of environment and behavior in a dance, I examined the application of ABCs to solving behavior problems.

6. Behavior Management #6: What about ABCs as applied to teaching? On 31 October 2021 I tricked readers and treated them (teehee) to a super-simple view of the ABCs of teaching.

7. Behavior management #7: Analyzing functions of behavior: Why and how could we test functions of behavior? For 07 November 2024 I riffed on using functional behavior assessment and analysis.

I plan to provide additional posts of related topics irregularly in the future. Using the concepts discussed in the foregoing posts, we can develop day-to-day practices to address common classroom—and with slight modifications, home and community—concerns such as attending (both being present and attention to task), homework, self-management or -control, following directions, and such. Also drawing on these ideas, I’ll drop a few posts providing guidance for teachers (and others concerned with caring for kids with disabilities); these poss will highlight what are “rules to teach by.”

AI generated image. Do all those hands, ears, noses, desks, walls look realistic?

Footnote

1. Most of the links point to pages that are available only to paying subscribers (i.e., they’re “behind the pay wall”), but a couple of them are open to all subscribers (as indicated in this post).