Empathic response skills should be a teacher's primary method of dealing with misbehavior.

The response is False.

Explanation:

Teachers and counselors who use empathic responding try to develop the ability to respond to student misbehavior with empathy. This technique makes the student feel their problems are acknowledged and that the teacher is accepting of them. While this method helps to improve communication between the teacher and student, it is not recommended as the first line of dealing with misbehavior in classroom management.  It should be used in conjunction with other classroom management strategies for misbehavior like logical consequences, which entails analyzing the misdeed with the student and coming up with ways to rectify the behavior or to help fellow students who may have been affected (like if the misbehaving student damages some classmate's  work, for example.)