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	<description>A resource about classroom management and behavior change methods</description>
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		<title>Current Directions in Behavioral Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Normand, a professor at the University of the Pacific who maintains a site he calls &#8220;The Skinner Box,&#8221; publishes a series of podcasts about behavior analysis. The second of these, released 5 August 2008, is a discussion of functional behavioral analysis (FBA). Much of the content features a conversation with Brian Iwata about his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/08/12/current-directions-in-behavioral-science/</link>
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		<title>Tennessee ABA conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Association for Behavior Analysis has scheduled it fall conference for Nashville (TN, US) at the Opryland Resort 7-9 November 2008. 
Please take a moment to check your schedule and pencil in the annual TABA conference for November 7th-9th, 2008.  We&#8217;re excited to announce that the Opryland Resort will be our conference site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/08/02/tennessee-aba-conference/</link>
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		<title>Iwata workshops on FBA slated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Iwata, Ph.D., will conduct a series of two-day workshops around the US this fall. Mr. Iwata, who is professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Florida, is one of the pre-eminent authorities on assessment and treatment of severe behavior problems such as self-injury. The workshops are entitled &#8220;Functional Analysis &#038; Treatment of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/25/iwata-workshops-on-fba/</link>
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		<title>Some resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a result of prowling around the Internet for a while, I&#8217;ve been assembling resources about applications of behavioral principles to problems relevant to the content of this blog. Of course, one of the foremost areas of application is improving the lives of individuals with autism. Indeed, applied behavior analysis (ABA) is sometimes misunderstood as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/22/some-resources/</link>
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		<title>Unrestrained management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Calm Down or Else,&#8221; (15 July 2008) Benedict Carey reports about a possible increase in the use of restraints, seclusion, and other physically coercive methods to manage disruptive behavior. 
For more than a decade, parents of children with developmental and psychiatric problems have pushed to gain more access to mainstream schools and classrooms for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/15/unrestrained-management/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on Another Brick in the Wall, Donna posted an entry about the term &#8220;classroom control.&#8221; It got me thinking about the concepts of control, management, and teaching. Here&#8217;s her lead
Teachers use the term &#8220;classroom control&#8221; for classroom management techniques. I have also used those terms. Lately I have been thinking about how much control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/10/reflections-on-control/</link>
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		<title>Ms. Libb on Fred Jones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on Sines of Learning, Ms. Libb has a post about Fred Jones&#8217; resources on classroom management. In &#8220;Tools For Teaching Part I.&#8221; Ms. Libb wrote
One of the most useful resources I&#8217;ve come across was Fred Jones&#8217;s works. Even though the teacher certification program I went through was great in many respects, we had -no- [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/06/ms-libb_fred-jones/</link>
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		<title>First-year teaching challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on Like Horses to Water, a first-year teacher of English has a post about discipline that caught my eye. In &#8220;Thoughts on Discipline #1: Why is discipline so difficult?&#8221; the author has captured one of the ideas that I express every semester. 
“Classroom management” is one of the biggest challenges for all teachers, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/06/07/first-year-teaching-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Hartjes on climate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on Teachers at Risk Elona Hartjes has a post worth a read. In &#8220;Strategies for dealing with kids who get physcially aggressive with teachers- Part 1- Establishing the classroom climate,&#8221; Ms. Hartjes explains the value of creating a positive environment with adolescents, including establishing rules (though she prefers to call them &#8220;agreements&#8221;). Read the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/05/23/hartjes-on-climate/</link>
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		<title>B-mod camps are problemsome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Families sometimes turn to private residential facilities, often called &#8220;behavior modification camps,&#8221; for youths when they decide that a young person &#8220;challenges authority,&#8221; is &#8220;out of control,&#8221; and has &#8220;accountability issues,&#8221;  But some &#8220;behavior modification camps&#8221; in the US and elsewhere do not employ behavioral procedures or only employ them inappropriately. 
Sadly, investigations of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/04/24/b-mod-camps-are-problemsome/</link>
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