During lengthy instructional periods, many students can disengage from the task by looking out the window, daydreaming, etc. For the majority of students, this disengagement is short-lived, and they easily redirect back to the assignment. However, for some students, their lengthier distraction draws the attention of the teacher. When such mild…

Instructional tasks and assignments can often generate severe and high rates of problem behaviors for some students in special and general education. These daily instructional assignments or tasks often pose an aversive condition, thus favoring behaviors that effectively escape such a condition as functional. The author asks the rhetorical…

Challenging behaviors and poor student performance are often attributed to many of society's ills. As a result of the presence of such factors in some students' lives, changing these students' behavior in the classroom is seen as futile unless one can change their nonschool environment. To facilitate the reader's capability to develop intervention…