Pyramid Model Basics
The tier that includes individualized, intensive interventions for children with persistent challenging behavior.
What is Tier 3?
Classroom expectations should be taught, modeled, and this.
What is practiced (or reinforced)?
Developing trust and communication with these individuals is essential for children's success.
Who are families?
Taking turns, sharing, and cooperating are examples of these.
What are friendship skills?
This assessment helps determine why a behavior is occurring.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?
These are the three levels of support in the Pyramid Model.
What are Universal Promotion, Secondary Prevention, and Tertiary Intervention?
Predictable routines help reduce this common cause of challenging behavior.
What is uncertainty (or anxiety)?
This is the most important foundation for preventing challenging behavior.
What are nurturing and responsive relationships?
Teachers often use this type of instruction to intentionally teach social-emotional skills.
What is explicit instruction (or direct teaching)?
An individualized plan developed after identifying the function of behavior is called this.
What is a Behavior Support Plan (BSP)?
The foundation of the Pyramid Model and includes practices for every child.
What is Tier 1?
Arranging centers to reduce crowding is an example of improving this.
What is the classroom environment?
Teachers should notice and encourage children's strengths by giving this type of feedback.
What is specific positive praise?
Taking deep breaths or counting to calm down are examples of this.
What is self-regulation?
Challenging behavior often serves this purpose for a child.
What is communication (or meeting a need)?
The framework that promotes social-emotional competence and prevents challenging behavior in young children.
What is the Pyramid Model?
These help children understand what happens throughout the day.
What are visual schedules?
Strong relationships with children that are built through simple and daily engagement practices. Example: greeting them every morning.
What is positive interaction?
Helping children identify happy, sad, angry, and excited teaches this skill.
What is recognizing emotions?
Before addressing challenging behavior, teachers should stay this.
What is calm?
The tier that provides targeted social-emotional support for children who need extra help.
What is Tier 2?
Giving children a warning before transitions is an example of using this strategy.
What are transition supports?
Spending one-on-one time with a child is an example of this relationship-building strategy.
What is intentional positive attention?
Instead of solving every conflict for children, teachers should teach this process.
What is problem-solving?
Instead of only stopping inappropriate behavior, teachers should teach this.
What is a replacement behavior (or replacement skill)?