Ed Raiford
Grand Canyon University: SPE-522
July 15, 2014
This paper will discuss the effects of distant setting events and antecendents and the effects they have on behavior. The different distant settings that exsist play a major role in the everyday functionality of classrooms and learning enviroments. These distant setting events and antecendents exsist daily and consist of a variety of different elements that can arise ant any given moment and can go unnoticed and undiagnosed. We will take a look at how distant settings events directly affect not only the individual experiencing them but also others who in this case have direct contact with them in a school setting on an everday basis. We will define the relationship between distant setting events and antecedents that influence student behavior and examine what exactly distant setting events are and how teachers deal with them on a everyday basis. We will find out how teachers juggle dealing with handling multiple situations that concerning distant settings events and if they have any support to help them neutralize and balance out the behavior effects and restore structure and order back to their classroom setting. The paper’s discussion is a reflection of an interview I conducted with a special education …show more content…
These events can take place at home, on the ride into school, walking to school, riding the bus into school, lack of sleep, forgotten medication, or even something as little as waking up late and throwing off an everyday routine. Antecedents are the things that act as triggers to behavior in the present state such as surroundings, situations, conditions, and events. The antecedent’s reaction is usually more common when some type of setting event has taken place (R. Wolters, personal communication, July 12,