Tips on working with Oppositional Defiant Students
- Structured classroom with rules posted
- Fair, firm and consistent rewards and negative consequences
- Adults – Keep your cool – bring down the intensity
- Avoid power struggles
- Identify defiant triggers
- Pick your battles carefully
- Spell out compliance expectations respectfully and clearly
- Give choices
- Act like a broken record
- Whisper
10 Important Principles of Change You Need to Know*
- Most behaviors and attitudes are learned
- Most behavior can be changed
- Most behaviors need intervention
- Change agents must alter their response
- Target one change at a time
- Identifying the desired change is essential
- Every unacceptable behavior needs a replacement
- Students need to rehearse the new behavior
- You need to reinforce the right action
- The rule of 21 will keep you on course
*Borba, M. The Big Book of Parenting Solutions (2009) Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, C