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IEP TIP FOR WEEK OF JANUARY 25, 2016

ZHANNA PRESTON, ED.D.

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In this PPT you will find:

1) A Growth Mindset Quotation for you to post in your classroom

2) A Growth Mindset activity for your class

3) This Weeks Social Skill 4) A social skills activity to use with

your class 5) Four pictures with hidden letters to use as a concentration sensory

activity 6) An IEP tip to review with your

special education department

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GROWTH MINDSET QUOTATION

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GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITY

Group Activity 1. Ask the students to select a subject (Language Arts, Math, Science,

Social Studies) that is the most challenging. 2. Ask students who find math the most challenging to get into one

corner, ELA into the other corner, Science in the third corner, and Social Studies into the fourth corner.

3. Ask the groups in each corner to share with each other why they find that subject the most challenging – 5-7 min.

4. Ask each group of students to create a poster or draw a picture on the white board of one example of the challenging concept or

assignment from that subject area. 5. Ask one student from each group to share.

6. Email Zhanna pictures of such drawings, sharings, etc.

Show this video on the Growth Mindset by Will Smith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkziAM_ZyDM

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Social Skills of the Week

How to apologize:

1) Look at the person. 2) Use a pleasant voice tone.

3) Make a specific statement of remorse.

4) State a plan for future appropriate behavior.

5) Ask the person to accept the apology.

Model this behavior. Ask to share examples for which

students should apologize to each other.

Share some appropriate examples of plans for future behavior that would

avoid the behavior for which the students apologized for to his or her

peer.

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Concentration Activities: • Ask the students to sit up straight and study the picture for two minutes.

• Ask to share details of what they saw. • Ask them to give the picture a title that starts with the letter that they found in the picture.

• Use one picture per day.

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IEP TIP OF THE WEEK

Emergency Behavior Intervention Procedures

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IEP TIP OF THE WEEK

Emergency interventions may only be used to control unpredictable, spontaneous behavior which poses clear and present danger of serious physical harm to the individual or

others and which cannot be immediately prevented by a response less restrictive than the temporary application of a

used to contain the behavior.”

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IEP TIP OF THE WEEK

Emergency Behavior Intervention Procedures

Pro-act Restraints

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IEP TIP OF THE WEEK Emergency Behavior

Intervention Procedures

• Shall not be used as a substitute for systematic behavioral intervention plans that are designed to change, replace,

modify, or eliminate a targeted behavior. • Shall not be employed for longer than is necessary to contain

the behavior. • May not included: locked seclusion, employment of a device or

material or objects which simultaneously immobilizes all four extremities, except for “prone containment” may be used as an

emergency intervention by staff trained in such procedures • An amount of force that exceeds that which is reasonable and

necessary under the circumstances

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IEP TIP OF THE WEEK Emergency Behavior Intervention

Procedures

• Shall not be used as a substitute for systematic behavioral intervention plans that are designed to change, replace, modify, or eliminate a targeted

behavior. • Shall not be employed for longer than is necessary to

contain the behavior. • May not included: locked seclusion, employment of a

device or material or objects which simultaneously immobilizes all four extremities, except for “prone

containment” may be used as an emergency intervention by staff trained in such procedures

• An amount of force that exceeds that which is reasonable and necessary under the circumstances

• Inform parent within 24 hours of the restraint

• Call an IEP within two days to discuss the incident, review the

behavior plan, and if a behavioral plan does not exist, offer an FBA

to gather data for the development of the behavioral

plan.