- Title
- Encouraging positive interactions
- Creator
- Conway, Robert
- Relation
- Inclusion in Action p. 198-244
- Relation
- http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1015&product_isbn=9780170132930
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This chapter is about encouraging positive interactions. It has deliberately not been called a chapter on behaviour management or classroom discipline, as the methods of achieving positive interactions are far broader than either of those terms. Positive interactions are affected by student behaviour, teacher behaviour, the curriculum, teaching strategies, the classroom and the school community, and the ways in which all these factors combine to produce positive learning environments. If these terms sound familiar it's because the concept of the classroom or school as an ecosystem is critical to understanding ways of enhancing positive social environments. Throughout the chapter there are references to the importance of social skills being addressed in the context of the learning and teaching that takes place in the classroom. Where teaching and learning are productive, behavioural problems are reduced and positive social inclusion is enhanced. Where there is little appropriate learning in the inclusive classroom, positive social skills are left to develop in isolation. Social skills, together with academic skills, provide the two great challenges to inclusion of students with additional needs. Many teachers tend to focus on the perceived lack of social skills of students with additional needs, particularly those skills associated with a lack of peer acceptance, and work-related behaviours such as keeping on-task or completing work with minimum assistance. These issues are addressed in this chapter through examination of approaches that have been shown to be effective in increasing classroom involvement, such as social skills training programs, cooperative learning experiences and positive teacher management strategies.
- Description
- 2nd ed.
- Subject
- positive interactions; behaviour; classroom; social skills; social inclusion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804704
- Identifier
- uon:6705
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780170132930
- Language
- eng
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