Functional Behavior Intervention Plan
Essay Exam 2
The professional develop for the teachers would include an overview or introduction to functional behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans, and how the components are completed and utilized. Some teachers feel as if they do not have to teach life skills or skills that help students function, believing that they were strictly hired to teach their content and not get involved with the other emotions and social issues that students bring with them every day.
Teacher Professional Development
Students may enter your classroom with academic issues which we have strategies to intervene and or to make adaptations to instruction to assist students. In addition to academic issues students may have, they may also …show more content…
A functional assessment involves engaging in activities to identify (1) environmental factors that affect the performance of a behavior and the desired outcome that behavior serves, and (2) a replacement behavior that is an appropriate way for student to obtain a desired goal.
Teachers can follow these steps to help to reduce problematic behavior that interferes with the ability of students to attend to and engage fully in instructional activities:
1. Identify the specifics of the problem behavior and the conditions that prompt and reinforce it. Every teacher experiences difficulty at one time or another in trying to remedy an individual student’s behavior problem that is not responsive to preventative efforts. Because research suggests that the success of a behavioral intervention hinges on identifying the specific conditions that prompt and reinforce the problem behavior (i.e., the behavior’s “antecedents” and “consequences”), we recommend that teachers carefully observe the conditions in which the problem behavior is likely to occur and not occur. Teachers then can use that information to tailor effective and efficient intervention strategies that respond to the needs of the individual student within the classroom …show more content…
Teach and reinforce new skills to increase appropriate behavior and preserve a positive classroom climate. We recommend that teachers actively teach students socially- and behaviorally-appropriate skills to replace problem behaviors using strategies focused on both individual students and the whole classroom. In doing so, teachers help students with behavior problems learn how, when, and where to use these new skills; increase the opportunities that the students have to exhibit appropriate behaviors; preserve a positive classroom climate; and manage consequences to reinforce students’ display of positive “replacement” behaviors and adaptive
The professional develop for the teachers would include an overview or introduction to functional behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans, and how the components are completed and utilized. Some teachers feel as if they do not have to teach life skills or skills that help students function, believing that they were strictly hired to teach their content and not get involved with the other emotions and social issues that students bring with them every day.
Teacher Professional Development
Students may enter your classroom with academic issues which we have strategies to intervene and or to make adaptations to instruction to assist students. In addition to academic issues students may have, they may also …show more content…
A functional assessment involves engaging in activities to identify (1) environmental factors that affect the performance of a behavior and the desired outcome that behavior serves, and (2) a replacement behavior that is an appropriate way for student to obtain a desired goal.
Teachers can follow these steps to help to reduce problematic behavior that interferes with the ability of students to attend to and engage fully in instructional activities:
1. Identify the specifics of the problem behavior and the conditions that prompt and reinforce it. Every teacher experiences difficulty at one time or another in trying to remedy an individual student’s behavior problem that is not responsive to preventative efforts. Because research suggests that the success of a behavioral intervention hinges on identifying the specific conditions that prompt and reinforce the problem behavior (i.e., the behavior’s “antecedents” and “consequences”), we recommend that teachers carefully observe the conditions in which the problem behavior is likely to occur and not occur. Teachers then can use that information to tailor effective and efficient intervention strategies that respond to the needs of the individual student within the classroom …show more content…
Teach and reinforce new skills to increase appropriate behavior and preserve a positive classroom climate. We recommend that teachers actively teach students socially- and behaviorally-appropriate skills to replace problem behaviors using strategies focused on both individual students and the whole classroom. In doing so, teachers help students with behavior problems learn how, when, and where to use these new skills; increase the opportunities that the students have to exhibit appropriate behaviors; preserve a positive classroom climate; and manage consequences to reinforce students’ display of positive “replacement” behaviors and adaptive