Attention seeking behaviors are behaviors that students engage in  in order to gain the attention of a peer or an adult. More popularly referred to as "connection seeking behaviors" these behaviors can be hard to intervene upon in the classroom setting when the opportunity for attention is so great. In this episode, we discuss strategies for intervening on behaviors that are maintained by peer attention specifically. We go way beyond the popular suggestions just to ignore it, and provide you with practical and feasible strategies for these behaviors. My first strategy is to, yes, talk with your class about ignoring behaviors that are disruptive to the classroom. This is a good strategy, but a strategy that can be very hard to implement and hard for our students to carry out. We are asking our students to do a lot by ignoring various behaviors, but it is a strategy that can work in some instances. My second strategy is to adopt some of the teachings from the program actively caring for people. This program provides you with strategies for creating an inviting, compassionate, kind, empathetic classroom culture. The whole program is rooted in the science of behavior and provides you with actionable steps to creating this culture in your classroom. The program focuses on teaching our students to engage in behaviors that promote caring for people such as being kind, compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic and more. These are key social skills our students need and will help them as they move through the grade levels. The program highlights engaging in these behaviors to build connections with your peers, thus by using this program you are teaching your students how to gain attention from others is a productive way. This can go a long way for attention seeking behaviors as it hits on possible lagging skills, which brings us to our next strategy. My third strategy is to teach appropriate attention seeking behaviors. If you have students who are engaging in attention seeking behaviors in a way that is inappropriate in the classroom we want to teach them how to engage in behaviors that will allow them to gain attention in an appropriate way. Sometimes we forget that not all of our students have these skills and that we need to teach them explicitly. I give you feasible ideas for teaching these skills in. your classroom to further build on the work from the actively caring for people program. Lastly, we talk about what to do if one of these behaviors occurs in your classroom. We talk about logical consequences you can engage to help support the student but also convey that we cannot engage in the behaviors in the classroom setting. This comes into play when the behaviors involve the other students, if they are particularly disruptive or mean in nature we want to make sure we are helping our student recognize how their behaviors affect other students. If you are looking for new strategies attention seeking behaviors beyond telling your students to ignore the behaviors, this episode is for you. Join the Teaching Behavior Together CommunityGrab a FREE behavior guide for feasible classroom based behavioral interventions (Click Here)Visit my website for more strategies and interventions you can use daily in your classroom. (Click Here)Follow me on Instagram for daily behavior and social emotional learning tips (Click Here)Follow me over on Pinterest for all things behavior and social emotional learning (Click Here)