Teacher Tips

Here are 5 easy ABA classroom management strategies you can get started with today:

• Build a positive relationship (pairing)

  • provide reinforcement & limit demands (at first)

  • only allow a student a favorite item when you are playing with them

  • HAVE FUN! 

• Offer choice (shared control)

  • You can do this now or later.

  • would you like to do 3 or 5 problems?

• Pay attention to the behavior you want to see more of (reinforcement)

  • highly praise ALL good behaviors you see

• Use easy demands to prepare students for harder demands (behavioral momentum)

  • if a student does not like word problems in math but likes multiplication facts, begin with multiplication facts (5-7) then throw in a word problem

• Follow unpleasant tasks with fun tasks (Premack Principle)

  • First __ (unpleasant) then ___ (fun)

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