Encourages use of skills that are difficult for the student to learn. Planned, Systematic Instruction Reasons children do not learn are lack of knowledge, insufficient practice, insufficient reinforcment, and emotional responses that inhibit skill use. Incidental learning (discussing alternatives or telling students what to do) is insufficient for children to learn alternative behaviors. Need to teach and practice skills in structured setting Way to give encouragement Historically, educational interventions dealing with student behavior problems have focused on strategies to diminish or extinguish behavior problems. [demime 0.98e removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of aMisbehavior.exe] [demime 0.98e removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of DEFAULT.GIF]