Challenging Behaviors
The way to access help for a student with persistent challenging behaviors.
What is a Support Request?
This refers to children's use of skills that help them address problems encountered in social situations.
What is Problem Solving?
What are (1) a daily schedule and (2) classroom rules/expectations?
It is important to discuss include these people when teaching about social skills.
Who is the family?
It is important to let kids know that it is ok to show these kinds of emotions in the classroom.
What are anger and sadness?
The document used to collect challenging behavior data
What is the BIRS?
There are this many steps in the Problem Solving process for students.
There are no more than 6 of these posted.
What are class rules/expectations?
Children can be paired up to practice this skill.
What is friendship?
This space in the classroom is a center for practicing self regulation.
What is the safe space/calm down corner?
These are implemented after students have been observed and data has been reviewed
What are strategies?
The use of this/these facilitates children solving problems.
These must have visuals paired with them.
What are class rules/expectations and the classroom schedule?
Second Step helps to facilitate instruction in this skill set.
What is Social?
It is important to provide this to children who are handling big emotions positively.
What is positive and descriptive feedback?
These are developed to support a student with challenging behaviors
What are an Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) and a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)
Providing this can reinforce the use of the Problem Solving steps.
The visuals to support behavior expectations and problem solving must be posted this way.
What is at the children's eye level?
Three strategies that can be used to teach social and emotional skills include.
What is modeling, peer pairing, games, role playing, role playing, one on one instruction, etc.?
Children can use this process to work through frustration or anger.
These people are included when planning for students with challenging behaviors
What is the family of the student?
These need to be taught explicitly during large-group, small-group, and individually.
What are the solutions or the problem solving steps?
Second Step rules are meant for this.
What is group time?
This visual structure can reinforce positive social skills.
What is a "Friendship Tree"?
Teachers should use this strategy to teach children how to identify/label emotions, to problem solve through emotions, and to use calm down strategies.
This is how it is determined that the strategies/plan is working
What is a decrease in the frequency and/or duration of the behaviors?
This is a tool that can be used to teach the problem solving steps.
What is the problem solving chart/poster?
You should refer to these throughout the day and at least once during large group or small group.
Teaching teams can model these skills.
What are friendship skills?
Teachers can share these resources with families to discuss emotions.
What are Second Step and Backpack Series handouts?
This person is responsible for collecting data and implementing the strategies
Who is the classroom teacher?
These are the FIVE steps in the problem solving process.
What are (1) identifying the problem, (2) thinking about possible solutions, (3) considering what the outcomes of the solution may be, (4) trying the solution, and (5) evaluating how the solution worked?
You should include students who are engaging in positive behaviors or following classroom rules in this?
What is Positive and Descriptive Feedback provided while referring to the visuals?
Teachers can facilitate growth in social and emotional skills by encouraging children to do this after practicing the skills.
What is reflect on their use of social skills and emotional competencies?
Three examples of strategies and/or materials for calming down include these.
What is deep breaths, social stories, calm down corner/safe space, sensory tools, visual supports, etc.?