Time- out and privilege removal: control techniques for disruptive, negativistic and aggressive conducts in the classroom. A psychopedagogic experience

Abstract

There are different aspects to consider in the kind of experience-treatment presented here. The first of them is that there have been applied operating skills in order to reduce or to eliminate different conducts (disobedience, physical and verbal aggressiveness, among others) emitted by three pupils who were deeply altering the normal course of the class-group (1º class of Primary School) In an equal way, together with the
one outlined above, there takes place an increase of the exercises  finished in the classroom by the pupils subject to this experience-treatment.

Another aspect to consider refers to the experience of a most pedagogic and organizational character, since it is situated in a context of education at school, which requires active participation of the teachers. This supposes a set which contemplates –it must contemplate in any case- some formal procedures with respect to the decisions to take.