Behavior & Routines
When students are not engaged in learning, lacking perspective-taking skills, and struggling to listen and process the teacher's instructions.
What is Dysregulated?
The purpose of reducing the reliance on reactive strategies and creating safe, supportive, and inclusive environments for all students.
What is Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS)?
An example of this involves standing near a student to redirect their behavior without using words.
What is Proxemics?
This collaborative relationship between community members and the school provides positive support to students and can also involve a peer from an older classroom.
What is mentoring?
When staff debrief and self-reflection to help identify strategies for remaining calm during student escalation, recognize triggering events, and modify classwide behavior support strategies to better fit student needs.
What is a Equity Pause?
The aim of this plan is to identify a specific target behavior that will be the central focus of intervention in the Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP).
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)?
When dealing with a potentially escalating situation, this strategy involves removing the student from the current environment to a quieter or safer space?
What is taking a break?
These cues can be used to redirect students back to tasks in the classroom. Examples include pointing to the board's expectations or showing a student their first/then board, or playing a chime.
What are nonverbal cues?
These strategies include deep breathing, mindfulness, progressive muscle relaxation, and using emotional scales to rate feelings and prompt coping strategies.
What are self-regulation strategies?
(Educators can teach and practice with students to prevent dysregulation)
This team typically includes a general education teacher, a member of the SPED department, a counselor, psychologist, or behaviorist, and an administrator.
What is an Intervention Team?
This type of behavior includes a student consistently interrupting the teacher or classmates during lessons, engaging in disruptive or silly conduct, or displaying exaggerated emotional reactions to minor events to elicit concern from others.
What is attention seeking behavior?
Rewarding desired behaviors with praise, stickers, or tokens. It encourages students to repeat positive actions.
What is positive reinforcement?
This type of Language is most effective when the behavior is starting to go off track. For example, "Dennis, show me what we do in class with our friend's materials?" or "Sonya, can you tell us what we are supposed to be doing right now?"
What is Reminding Language?
A strategy for when a teacher intervenes between students in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation.
What is conflict resolution?
This team approach in the classroom fosters a positive team dynamic and effective communication for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating their efforts.
What is developing collaborative relationships?
These factors can influence how teachers perceive and address student behavior.
What are teachers' identity, values, and beliefs?
Every instance of challenging behavior has 3 common components.
What are the ABC’s of Behavior?
A type of consequences used to correct behaviors in a way that helps students take responsibility for their actions. For example, if a student scribbles all over their desk, a consequence would be for them to clean the desk.
What is Logical Consequence?
This process through which students learn to support healthy development and relationships
What are SEL skills?
(mindfulness, abilities to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships, make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions)
This expert should educate the student's team on how to interpret the FBA and understand the contents of the BIP.
Who is the Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)?