Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT): Improving Student Behavior in Elementary School Music Classrooms

Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a classroom management strategy that incorporates social skills instruction, group contingencies, praise, points, and group rewards to target student behavior in an elementary school music classroom. CW-FIT involves organizing the class into groups or teams, praising and awarding points to groups that exhibit social skills and participate appropriately in class lessons, and providing rewards to groups that meet a predetermined point goal. The teacher introduces one social skill per class period, reviews the skills with the students at the beginning of each class, and displays social skills posters in the room for reference.