Interventions
This intervention should not be used when interacting with students.
What is yelling?
This adult response to desirable student behavior is easy to deliver, takes only a few seconds, and allows the student to MAYBE get something else later in the day...
What is giving a CHANCE card?
This visual helps a student stay organized, know what is coming next, and the student can generate the visual themselves.
What is a LIST?
This collection method is student-specific, regarding target behaviors and the environment and helps identify why behaviors occur and what may be maintaining behaviors.
What is an ABC data sheet?
Students rush at the classroom door, banging on it using both fists
What is attention seeking behavior?
Something immediately following a specific behavior that increases the likelihood that the specific behavior will occur again.
What is a reinforcer?
Looking at, responding to/with a verbalization, gesture, acknowledging the behavior, reacting to the behavior may be doing what...
What is provide attention to behavior?
This common redirection or antecedent lets students know exactly what they need to do FIRST before gaining access to preferred activity.
What is first/then?
(Premack Principle)
These individuals are responsible for data collection, often times ABC data and points data.
What is everyone who services the student?
These individuals hold an important position where they provide reinforcement (points, verbal praise, small tangibles, chance cards) for SPECIFIC desirable behaviors throughout the day in multiple classrooms.
Who/What are paraprofessionals, RBTs, teachers, service providers?
Providing a student with a scribe, allowing the student to stand while working, altering the length or content of an assignment, providing a graphic organizer
What are accommodations and modifications?
A response where the adult is NOT attending to specific student behavior, the adult IS attending to the student.
Not reacting, Not providing eye contact, Not responding
What is planned ignoring?
This visual allows students to "see" how much time is being allotted to them.
What is a digital or timed timer?
These individuals are responsible for collecting behavioral data such as point sheets or ABC Data.
What/Who are paraprofessionals and RBTs?
This data collection captures specific behaviors AND what happens in the environment before and after those specific behaviors.
What is ABC Data Collection?
This intervention is a redirection, giving TIME to students to make the appropriate choice before the adult engages in follow through
What is counting down, "you need to be in your chairs in 5,4,3,2,1...."?
Adults speaking in front of students, referencing how to gain points, how/what behaviors earn kickboard cash, adults speaking about appropriate voice volume for the classroom, adults using "scripted" responses for student behavior
What is common language?
McDonalds uses this inside their location as their visual...
(There may be more than one answer)
What is the wall menu?
This common intervention appears in behavior plans.....catching positive behavior, looking for opportunities to praise behaviors, not attending to negative behaviors, not responding to attention- seeking behavior, setting up (contriving) situations for the student to be successful such that praise can be given
What is spending MORE time praising appropriate, desirable behaviors rather than focusing on negative behaviors?
This is what the adult in the classroom should do when the student yells the teacher's name once, or repeatedly, attempting to gain their attention.
What is modeling raising of your hand without saying anything OR modeling raising your hand while verbally modeling, "Excuse me"
For students who are READERS, (Or staff who can DRAW), this serves as a versatile visual that can travel with student and adult in the hallways, on the bus, at a field trip, outside, etc...
What is a white board?
This "F" word is important when utilizing behavior methodology because it helps us learn why someone might engage in a certain behavior and then we make changes so that the learner is given OTHER behaviors to receive the same or similar outcome.
What is function?