1. Chapter 7:
Coping with Common
Behavior Problems:
Nonverbal Interventions
Alice Derry, Dani Pycroft,
Natalia Grinberg, Chelsea Prue

2. Intervention is a Bi-Directional Process

3. Student Responsibilities
• Prepare for Class
• Study
• Ask questions
• Remain on task

4. Teacher Responsibilities
• Model professional
responsibilities
• Be prepared
• Provide clear direction
• Routine-consistent
behavioral expectations
• Build positive relationships
with students
• Respond intuitively to
students surface behaviors.

5. With-it-ness : Refers to the non-verbal
communication that teachers use to
demonstrate their awareness of everything
that is going on within their classroom.
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6. Proactive Intervention Methods
1. Changing the pace of classroom activities.
2. Removing seductive objects.
3. Interest boosting of a student who shows signs of
off-task behavior.
4. Redirecting behavior of off-task students.
5. Nonpunitive time out.
6. Encouraging appropriate behavior.
7. Modeling and providing cues for appropriate
behavior.

7. Remedial Intervention
Planned Ignoring
Signal Interference
Proximity Interference
Touch Interference