We’re often very good at catching children when they’re doing something wrong. We also want to catch them when they're doing something good and praise them for this.

We will see increase the things that we give attention to.

So if we’re always giving attention to the bad behavior, that will typically be what we see increase.

So we want to make sure we're giving adequate time to the good behavior that we want to see increase in our classrooms.

We can do this in a variety of ways.

We can offer praise to our students, particularly specific praise.

Things like, “I really like how you’re looking at me.”

“I like how you guys are sitting nicely in your seats.”

We can also do things like have a little jar.

And as the students do good things, we can put marbles in the jar. And when the jar is all full,

there can be some type of a reward that can help the students see that they're encouraged for good behavior.

Catching good behavior allows us to often see that good

behavior occur more frequently.