Addressing Disruptive and Noncompliant Behaviors

Intervention Strategies:

  1. High Probability Requests
  1. Choice Making
  1. Differential Reinforcement

Students are more likely to obey teacher directives if they are already engaged in compliant classroom behavior

Most effective when the difficult request is deliver within five seconds of the last high-p request

High-p requests need to be varied

Give students control of their own learning

Giving or withholding reinforcement designed to decrease instances of problem behaviors

The teacher provides positive feedback for those behaviors that he or she would like to see in the classroom, and does not provide feedback or ignores those behaviors that she does not want to see

3 Types of Differential Reinforcement

  1. Differential reinforcement of low rates of behavior (DRL)
  1. Differential reinforcement of incompatible behaviors (DRI)
  1. Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO)

Used to eliminate a behavior

Reinforce the student when s/he refrains from engaging in the target behavior

Used to reduce a behavior

Reinforce the student for engaging in the target behavior less often. Used for positive behaviors that occur too frequently

Used to substitute a behavior

Reinforce the student when s/he engages in an identified behavior which is incompatible with the target behavior