Old-Fashioned Game Improves Classroom Behavior

If you've been inside a classroom in the past 40 years, you have probably experienced a version of the Good Behavior Game. Although instructors have likely used similar methods since the dawn of classrooms and schools, the game's name dates to a classic 1969 article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis. The article describes the successful use of a game to reduce  "disruptive out-of-seat and talking-out behavior" of students in one fourth-grade classroom.