Anita L. Lewis
ECE 201: Intro to Early Childhood Behavior Management
Jennifer Denton
March 24, 2014
What is a behavior support plan? Behavioral Support Plan (BSP) assist a broad range of student deemed by the school require additional support and guidance. Of course these are only created after assessments are carefully conducted and reviewed thoroughly among the teacher, any other school faculty needed, student involved, and student’ s family. Specific plans can be created for students who have been diagnosed or display severe behavior disorders, require additional assistance due to the difficult challenging, or disruptive behavior, and sometimes just for those who could benefit from some all-round extra support.
Ones hope is for these plans to be in place and used as an alternative way to handle troublesome behavior. With the use of the Behavioral Support Plan we can ensure the student, their family, and other staff to feel safe, valued, and most of all connected to with the school community in which they live in. When a Behavioral Support Plan becomes effective numerous changes along the lines of building respectful relationships, resilience, and well-adjusted students who are able to learn effectively can be expected. When a behavior arises in children most people (especially parents) tend to panic and often results in constant frantic attitude. This eventually leads to punishments that are nowhere near the correct way to handle the behavior or child at hand. Teachers, childcare providers, mentors are constantly taking classes/courses to keep them up to speed with all the ins and outs of proper behavior handling. Many times parents are too afraid to seek help and find themselves becoming deeper into the occurring problem. Numerous behavior occur every year in millions of environments, more specifically school. Out of these behaviors we find biting, defiance, and hitting to be the most common.