The author's behavior management plan is for primary school grades (1-3). She plans to use many ideas from many different models of behavior management. The models that she takes her ideas from are Glasser, Kounin, Ginott, Dreikers, Canter, Jones, Albert, Nelson/Lott/Glenn, Coloroso, Kohn. .
Some preventive elements in the author's plan would include having the children and the teacher together decide on classroom rules and go over them in some way once a week which goes with the Dreikers Model of the democratic classroom and the Albert model. Another preventive element would be to set up a system of rewards and have them posted so that students would always be able to see it to remind them of what would happen if they do act appropriately. The consequences for breaking school and classroom rules would also be posted as a reminder to the students which goes with the Glasser Model which states that reasonable consequences should follow all student behavior and each class should have workable rules that are consistently enforced. One item that the author likes from the Dreikers Model is that self-discipline comes from reasonable limits on behavior with positive and negative consequences linked to it. The negative consequences would, like the Canter model states, be something that the student(s) dislike. One preventative element from the Kounin model would be seatwork variety to keep students engaged. .
The reinforcers for following the rules would be a reward system of points. Students could get points at any time during the day for many things. For instance, points can be earned for turning in homework on time, doing well on an exam, helping out another student or adult, etc. The points can be totaled up to earn reinforcers. The reasons to get reinforcers are so diverse because the author believes that every child has their own strengths and weaknesses. The reinforcer would fit the child's strengths and weaknesses.
