Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, ...

The study found that when middle school teachers praised students at least as often as they reprimanded them, class-wide on-task behavior improved by 60–70%. Students speaking out of turn, texting, ...

Further, teachers often expect that by middle school, kids are old enough to behave without being coddled. As a result, positive reinforcement techniques widely used in elementary school are often ...

To improve behavior in class, teachers should focus on praising children for good behavior, rather than telling them off for being disruptive, according to a new study published in Educational ...

Wow, I love how Ari is sitting. I love how Brian is showing me with his body that he's interested in the lesson, and so are Hannah, Mark, and Olivia! Who else wants to show me that they are interested ...