AECTP Classroom Management 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A teacher wants to address the function of a student's attention-seeking behavior. The most effective intervention would be to:
- Provide attention only when the student misbehaves
- Teach the student an appropriate way to seek attention and reinforce that behavior (Correct answer)
- Ignore the student entirely throughout the day
- Increase academic demands to keep the student busy
Correct answer: Teach the student an appropriate way to seek attention and reinforce that behavior
Teaching a functionally equivalent replacement behavior (FERB) addresses the function of the misbehavior in a socially appropriate way.
Question 2: When using group contingencies, a teacher ties rewards or consequences to the behavior of the entire class. This approach works best when:
- Individual students are held solely responsible for group failure
- The class has a strong sense of community and students support each other (Correct answer)
- Only the highest-achieving students' behavior is monitored
- Consequences are applied randomly rather than consistently
Correct answer: The class has a strong sense of community and students support each other
Group contingencies leverage peer influence and are most effective in cohesive classrooms where students motivate one another.
Question 3: An effective classroom management approach recognizes that most challenging behaviors serve a function. Which of the following is NOT a commonly identified function of behavior?
- Escape from a task
- Access to a preferred item or activity
- Seeking sensory stimulation
- Demonstrating academic proficiency (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Demonstrating academic proficiency
The four main functions of behavior in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) are escape, attention, access to tangibles, and sensory stimulation — not academic demonstration.
Question 4: A teacher creates a class agreement at the start of the year instead of a list of rules. The primary advantage of this approach is that it:
- Eliminates the need for any consequences
- Fosters a sense of shared ownership and community responsibility (Correct answer)
- Prevents all misbehavior from occurring
- Reduces the teacher's planning time
Correct answer: Fosters a sense of shared ownership and community responsibility
Class agreements build student agency and communal accountability, which increases intrinsic motivation to follow expectations.
Question 5: Which of the following best describes the 'least restrictive environment' principle as it applies to classroom placement and management?
- Students with disabilities must always be educated in separate settings
- Students should be educated alongside non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate (Correct answer)
- All students must follow identical behavioral expectations regardless of need
- Special education teachers are solely responsible for managing students with disabilities
Correct answer: Students should be educated alongside non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate
IDEA's least restrictive environment (LRE) mandate requires that students with disabilities be educated with non-disabled peers as much as possible.
Question 6: A teacher notices that disruptions increase significantly during the last 15 minutes of class. What is the most likely cause?
- Students are intellectually superior and finish work too quickly
- Insufficient closure routine and declining student engagement near the end of the period (Correct answer)
- The classroom temperature drops at that time
- Students have too much homework to think about
Correct answer: Insufficient closure routine and declining student engagement near the end of the period
End-of-class disruptions often result from a lack of structured closure activities and waning engagement as students anticipate the period ending.
Question 7: Which of the following statements about culturally responsive classroom management is accurate?
- All students should conform to the dominant cultural norms of the school
- Teachers should consider students' cultural backgrounds when interpreting and responding to behaviors (Correct answer)
- Culturally responsive management only applies to ELL students
- Discipline practices should be identical across all demographic groups to be fair
Correct answer: Teachers should consider students' cultural backgrounds when interpreting and responding to behaviors
Culturally responsive management recognizes that behaviors are interpreted through cultural lenses and that equitable responses must account for this diversity.
AECTP Classroom Management 5
A teacher wants to address the function of a student's attention-seeking behavior.
The most effective intervention would be to: