Studies are exploring whether teachers feel more competent and experience less burnout after learning TCIT, she said.
Just as important to TCIT is teaching children how to calm themselves, and establishing limits and consistent consequences for misbehavior.
Using TCIT, teachers would instead ignore the outburst but call on and praise the student when he does raise his hand.
Early published findings, which have mostly centered on pre-school-aged children, suggest that students show behavioral improvements when TCIT techniques are implemented.
Since the implementation of TCIT in some League classrooms, disruptive incidents dropped 32% to 1, 500 the last school year, said Ms. Golub.
The TCIT techniques are based on a similar program for parents and children, which has been demonstrated to work in reducing kids' misbehavior.
They are testing TCIT and related programs in schools around the country, including populations where children have known behavioral issues, as well as in mainstream classrooms.
And questions remain about whether TCIT can be widely used, since it involves intense practice and coaching sessions between the teacher and a psychologist trained in the techniques.
The principles of TCIT, like its parent-training cousin, PCIT, sound simple enough: Teachers need to build a strong relationship with students so they can work more effectively with them.
Four times a week for the better part of a year, Child Mind Institute psychologist Samantha Miller coached League School teachers on TCIT by following them around and discreetly whispering guidance.
"TCIT benefits misbehaving kids, but it also benefits behaving kids, " said Melanie Fernandez, director of the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Program at the Child Mind Institute in New York, a nonprofit focused on child mental health, which has been researching TCIT for several years.
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