1. Have a student or colleague tally the positive negative statement you make during a minimum of two hours of instruction time. Try to include several types of lessons and do not code more than 30 minutes at a time. Especially when using students to tally marks, it is helpful to define positive and negative statements and provide the coder with a list of commonly used positive negative remarks. Neutral remarks, such as statements related to instruction or comments such as "OK", "All right", or "Yes" should be not coded.
2. If your ratio of positive negative statements was less than three to one, repeat the activity and try to focus on responding positively to productive student behavior. Following. In which your positive negative ratio was very high, asked students to evaluate the lesson.