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21 Jun 2011
Brochure

Good Behavior Game Research, Training and Support

Boy raising hand The Good Behavior Game (GBG) is a team-based classroom behavior management strategy that helps young children master the role of student while developing the discipline needed to sit still, pay attention and complete their school work.

AIR works with school districts and communities on all aspects of GBG implementation, including planning, providing training to teachers and local coaches, and monitoring practices over time.

The strategy benefits both students and teachers. Through GBG, children work together to create a positive learning environment by monitoring their own behavior as well as that of their classmates. Teachers use GBG during the school day as a learning strategy that does not compete with instructional time. In GBG classrooms there is less off-task and disruptive behavior and teachers have more time to devote to teaching.

GBG is built around four core elements that integrate classroom rules, team membership, monitoring of behavior and positive reinforcement to individuals and the group.

GBG has been proven to reduce aggressive, disruptive behavior and increase on-task behavior for students by the end of first grade, and lower the age of first-time smoking for students by middle school.

GBG has also been proven to reduce students’ use of mental health and behavioral services from 1st grade through young adulthood. For young adults, especially males who were aggressive and disruptive, playing GBG as a child can have long-term impacts on mental health, smoking, and drug and alcohol abuse.

AIR has conducted GBG implementation activities in Baltimore, MD; Colorado; Houston, TX; Washington, DC; Nebraska; and the United Kingdom.

Related Projects

Project

Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research (EdPrev)

AIR’s Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research (EdPrev) investigates ways to improve children’s success in school and related long-term behavioral, mental health, and social-functioning outcomes.

Project

Good Behavior Game Professional Development Study

With funding from the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, AIR has partnered with Houston Independent School district, to examine the level of professional development needed for teachers to effectively implement the Good Behavior Game.

Related Work

1 Apr 2010
Report

NIDA Notes: Behavior Game Reduces Later Drug-Related Problems

A recent special issue in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence highlights findings from three decades of research on the Good Behavior Game and its impact on a variety of long term behavioral and mental health outcomes.

Topic: 
Education, Social and Emotional Learning
29 Jul 2011
Brochure

The Good Behavior Game: Success in the Classroom and Beyond

AIR provides a comprehensive approach to training, on-site coaching, and program oversight to realize positive results from the Good Behavior Game.

Topic: 
Education, Good Behavior Game, School Discipline, Social and Emotional Learning

Further Reading

  • AIR’s Good Behavior Game Receives International “Best Practice” Award from Queen of Sweden
  • Good Behavior Game Professional Development Study
  • First Lady Laura Bush Visits Baltimore, Md., School where AIR is Conducting Program to Reduce Adolescent Violence
  • Piloting the Good Behavior Game in Brazil
  • The Good Behavior Game: Success in the Classroom and Beyond
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