Effective practices and technologies for online behavior management of school-aged students

Abstract

Managing student behavior is an essential component to creating positive and productive learning environments for school-aged children. As more teachers shift to synchronous online teaching, they face managing student behavior in a new learning environment that can pose distinctive challenges. Fortunately, teachers can bring to their online teaching many of the practices they use when teaching face to face. Teachers can use some practices the same way, and others may need minor modifications. Likewise, teachers have a variety of technologies at their disposal to assist them in facilitating online behavior management practices. This article recommends several online behavior management practices, suggests modifications for their use, and presents several technologies teachers can use to manage their students’ online behavior.