Behavior Interventions and Best Practices

Exceptional Children’s Department

Opening Day

August 22, 2007

"There is a brilliant child locked inside every

student."

Marva Collins

Areas of Focus

Types of Interventions Verbal Crisis Prevention

Documentation Behavior Intervention Plans Tools Resources

Verbal Intervention

Remain Calm Isolate Body Language Be Clear Reflecting Silence Paraverbals

Tips for Crisis Prevention

Be empathetic Clarify Messages Respect Personal

Space Be aware of body

position Ignore challenging

questions

Permit verbal venting when possible

Set and enforce reasonable limits

Keep your nonverbal cues non-threatening

Avoid overreacting Use of physical contact

Why Document???????

Concerns of lawsuits Good documentation provides detailed

account of an incident so that Appropriate follow-up action is taken Patterns and trends are identified Policies and procedures can be assessed Steps can be taken to improve the safety of

everyone Good documentation takes practice

Documentation

Know what to document Avoid delay List basic facts in chronological order Be objective Be accurate, concise, clear

More Documentation

Behavior Checklists Behaviors are listed and check marks used to

show exhibited behavior or not Hash marks during a specific amount of time

Charts

Graphs

Resources for Behavior Checklists

http://kids.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Free_Behavior_Charts

http://lattitudes.org/behavioral-charts.html

http://chartjungle.com/behavior.html Must join to access – but it is free!

www.usuedu/teachall/text/behavior/LRBIpdfs/Data.pdf

Behavior Intervention Plans

What is a Behavior Intervention Plan? When to complete a Behavior Intervention

Plan Components

Target Behavior Expected Outcomes Interventions and Frequency of Interventions Persons Responsible Progress and Date Reviewed

What is a Behavior Intervention Plan?

Plan developed to help a student change a specific behavior

Multiple interventions and strategies

Not punishment but ways to acquire/teach new alternative skills

When to Complete a BIP

When you notice a pattern of behavior

Typically around Day 5 of Out of School Suspension

Target Behavior

What is the behavior you are seeing?

Examples Misinterpretation of

normal social exchanges as threats

Expected Outcomes

What behavior are you working toward?

Example To accept constructive

criticism To relate positively with

peers

Interventions and Frequency of Interventions

When target behavior is exhibited, what are YOU (school personnel) going to do?

Examples Planned activity with

peers supervised by adult (home, school, community)

Communicate with parents to share information concerning student progress

Persons Responsible Who are the people

responsible for carrying out the interventions and monitoring progress?

Examples Teachers Administrators School staff Para-professionals Parents Student Coach Mentor Big Brother Uncle Church Member

Progress and Date Reviewed

Is the student making progress toward the expected outcomes?

Determined in the IEP meeting

When you chart behavior

When you complete IEP Progress Notes or regular intervals when you report progress to parents

Example: Date _________

Progress: ____________

_______________________

________________________

Tools Available at YOUR School

The Tough Kid Tool Box

The Pre-referral Intervention Manual

The Behavior Intervention Manual

Resources - Web

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ec/supportprograms/resources/

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ec/exceptionality/learning

http://www.proteacher.com/ http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/

behavior_disorders.html http://www.specialednews.com/educators/

lessonplans/lessons.html http://www.teachervision.fen.com/classroom-

management/resource/5776.html?detoured=1

http://www.disciplinehelp.com/ http://www.resiliencyinc.com/#Top http://www.nrcld.org/research/rti.shtml http://www.wested.org/nerrc/rti.htm http://www.interventionscentral.org http://www.w-w-c.org http://www.education-world.com/

index.shtml http://www.behavioradvisor.com/

Resources - Print

The Behavior Survival Guide for Kids by Tom McIntyre, ISBN 1-57542-132-1

Teaching with Love & Logic by Jim Fay & David Funk, ISBN 0-944634-48-6

Building a Positive Self-Concept 113 Activities for Adolescents by M. Jacobs, B. Turk, E. Horn – J. Weston Walsh, Publisher, Portland Maine

Managing Children & Adolescents with Emotional & Behavioral Problems. Produced by Helpful Children Enterprises, Phoenix, Arizona