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Behavior Interventions and Best Practices
Exceptional Children’s Department
Opening Day
August 22, 2007
Areas of Focus
Types of Interventions Verbal Crisis Prevention
Documentation Behavior Intervention Plans Tools Resources
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