Using Time-Out Effectively in Elementary Classrooms

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Classroom Management

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Classroom management is a comprehensive blend of exuberance and love for teaching and students, with an established, successful curriculum consisting of high student expectations, consistency and rigor.

I will create a survey that contains six questions. The survey will be distributed to the students in a second grade class between the age of 7 to 8 years old attending Central Park Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama. Quantitative methods were used to collect data on the perceptions a knowledge of evidence based practices to manage classroom behaviors for students. In this survey will be questions concerning if they are aware of what time out is. They will also be asked whether or not they have ever recieved time-out, how they felt and whether or not a lesson was learned.

The more discipline problems a teacher faces, the less effective the instruction becomes. Creating an environment optimized for learning is accomplished by establishing control. There is no better way to set the tone for the class than during the first few weeks of school. This is the time to address poor behavior and send the message that it will not be tolerated. Assert your authority in the proper way. The worst possible thing to do is to ignore misbehavior because you want to seem cool or because you think it will go away. That is rarely the case, and once control is lost, it is very difficult to get back

Seclusion Time-Out

Very Restrictive form of time out

Isolation time-out

In seclusion time-out a student is removed from the classroom and placed in a room or area in which he/she is prohibited from leaving until the time-out period is served.

The procedure typically involves placing a student in

a) comfort room

b) quiet room

c) cool-down room

d) time-out room

Contingent Observation

Time Out Ribbon

The student wears a ribbon or other as long as he or she behaves appropriately. When a student exhibits inappropriate behavior, the ribbon is removed for a brief period of time. When the ribbon is removed, so is access to reinforcements.

Student is required to move to another location in the classroom and is instructed to observe the class without participating or interacting in any way for a predetermined period of time, “sit and watch”, “cool down” variations of contingent observation although instructional activities are interrupt when contingent observations is used, students may learn appropriate ways of behaving through imitation because they can still observe classroom activities

Exclusion Time-Out

There are four primary advantages in using procedures:

Withdrawal of Materials

Restrained Time-Out

As the names implies, this time-out procedure involves removing reinforcing materials from a student for a specified reason period of time when the student exhibits inappropriate behavior.

In exclusion time-out, a student is excluded from the reinforcing area, usually repositioned away from his or her peers.

This is the least restrictive form of time-out teachers can implement

For example, if a student throws a crayon at a peer during class, the teacher would remove the students crayons for a predetermined time frame.

A) a teacher does not have to remove a student from instruction

B) when in time-out, students can observe other students behaving appropriately

C) the teacher and other adults in a classroom can clearly see who eligible for reinforcement

D) the ribbon clearly signals students when reinforcement is available and when they are in time-out

Planned Ignoring

Usually withdrawal of materials is accompanied by the removal of the adult attention

This procedure involves the "systematic withdrawal of social attention for a predetermined time period upon the mild levels of problem behavior"

Definitions of terms

Physical time-out or movement suppression

Time-out: is an extremely common behavior reduction procedure used in schools across the US.

Planned ignoring is basically in seat time-out!

Classroom Management: is a comprehensive blend of exburance and love for teaching and students, with an established, successful curriculum consisting of high student expectations, consistency and rigor.

When using planned ignoring time-out it is important to focus on praising a student's appropriate behaviors while ignoring those that are inappropriate.

Inclusion time-out: it involves removing reinforcements from a student rather than removing the student from the reinforcing environment.

Abstract

Exclusion time-out is any procedure that:

a) requires that a student be removed from instructional activities

b) does not require to watch others

c) does not require a student to sit in a specially designated time-out room.

Exclusion time-out: a student is excluded from the reinforcing area, usually repositioned away from his or her peers.

Using Time-Out Effectively in Elementary Classrooms

Seclusion time-out: a student is removed from the classroom and placed in a room or area in which he or she is prohibited from leaving until the time out period is served.

Classroom Management is a significant challenge for school teachers and administrators. In this research paper, I will be presenting the effectiveness of time-out. I will be introducing the different forms of time out in addition to explaining the different variations of the forms. Time-out is not a single strategy, but rather refers to a number of related procedures designed to reduce inappropriate student behavior by removing a student from the reinforcing environment. There are four primary types of time-out, which range from the least intrusive to the most restrictive. Inclusion time-out being least intrusive, exclusion time-out, seclusion time-out, and the most restrictive form is the restrained time-out. In each of these procedures when a student exhibits the target behavior, the student's teacher reduces the student's access to reinforcements for a period of time.

Most Restrictive Form

Restrained time-out: physical time out or movement suppression.

Pharris Brooke Clayton

Inclusion Time-Out

Key Words

Elementary Education

Stillman College

Time-out

Classroom Management

Generally involves removing reinforcements from a student rather than removing the student from the reinforcing environment.

Some examples of exclusion time-out include placing a student:

a) in the corner classroom facing the wall

b) behind a partition in the classroom

c) in another teachers classroom

Inclusion time-out

Exclusion time-out

Seclusion time-out

The students continues to observe classroom instructions, but it is denied an opportunity to participate in activities or receive reinforcements from either peers or the teacher.

Restrained time-out

Introduction

A number of variations of inclusion time out include:

Time-out is a behavior modification technique effective in reducing a wide variety of undesirable child behaviors including disobedience, aggression, and inappropriate social behaviors.

A) Planned Ignoring

B) Withdrawal of Materials

C) Contingent Observation

D) Time out Ribbon

This procedure combines both a restraint an time out procedure. Its use is typically limited to younger children who refuse to comply with a teacher-directed time-out.The adult places the student into a time-out position and maintains the student in time-out through the use of physical restrain. This restraint is typically accomplished by the teacher using a basket-hold technique.

Have you ever personally experienced time-out? When the entire class gets to have a special surprise, but your excluded because your behavior was not exactly exemplary. Sometimes the best way to cool off a student that is exhibiting bad behavior is with a time-out. Time-out has two goals, an immediate one and a long term one. The immediate goal is to bring an abrupt stop to the problem behavior. The long term goal of time-out is to help the student to achieve self-control and self-discipline. By being removed from the situation the child learns that if he or she wants to be around other he or she must learn to control their behavior. Time-out tells the student that you care and that you want to help them stay in control of themselves although they might not always believe this. Used repeatedly and correctly the time-out technique can change almost any childhood behavior. It can also assist in maintaining a respectful, trusting relationship between the student and the teacher.

Time-out usually involves placing a child in a corner of a room or isolated place.

The word "discipline" originates from the Latin "disciplina" and French "discipline"

Many teachers agree that the major problems in today's classrooms is a general lack of student discipline.

Time-out can be considered less aversive than other punishments procedures such as spanking, threatening , or scolding because it does not require presentation of an aversive stimulus.

All organized learning activities require effective classroom management

In education, discipline means modeling the unexpected behaviors for students and eliminating the unwanted behaviors and also using rewards and punishments when needed.

Movement suppression was effective in reducing aggressive behaviors for students with mental disorders

The goal of educational discipline is to provide a safe learning environment.