Chapter I, Theoretical perspectives on students' misbehavior. Behavior
management models, presents definitions of students’ misbehavior and different terms
used to name this category of behaviors by different authors in accordance with their
approaches or/and their intention to underline a particular feature of these behaviors
within a specific context of analysis (problem behavior, defiant behavior etc.).
Misbehavior includes behavior that interferes with teaching, interferes with the rights of
others to learn, have a negative impact on student’ school adjustment. Also, this chapter
presents a series of observable features of these behaviors that can allow teachers to
identify and establish their degree of severity (i.e., these behaviors keep the student for
participating in curricular activities, have negative effects on educational process and
student’s educational performances, are not adequate to student’s age or development
level etc.).