Although the goal of teaching is to establish an environment in which children can learn, students often engage in behavior that distracts them and others from that task. Mild or serious disruptions can range from simply failing to do assigned work through bothering or bullying others, to severe aggression towards classmates and the teacher.

This video provides ways to identify and understand classroom management problems. It illustrates various instructional and management strategies, and provides strategies in defining the problem(s) when the problem is primarily an individual one. It also reviews strategies that can be used when an individual level of intervention is necessary.

A follow-up video on interventions for classroom disruption is at    • Interventions for classroom disruption  .