FY27R, 7021, University of S. Queensland, Preventing Challenging Behaviours with Dr. Laura Riffel

Educators are among the most critical influence on a child. Still, it’s no secret that managing behaviour issues in the classroom are what teachers struggle with most. Children’s emotional and life challenges can create problem behaviours that may seem complex. But when a student’s behaviours are monitored and evaluated correctly, educators can discover the appropriate intervention to modify the problem behaviour. The modifications made in a classroom can set a child up for success or failure. But are some children simply too challenging to respond to such classroom modifications?

In this chapter in a text, Dr.Riffel addresses these problems.  For instance, she begins with this:  

 We can’t hold kids accountable for behaviours if we haven’t taught them what those behaviours look like, sound like and feel like. We can’t hold kids accountable for behaviours if we haven’t taught them what those behaviours look like, sound like and feel like.So I talk to people about what I term the TIPP (teach, imprint, practice, praise) method.

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