NASP 2015: Jim Wright's Workshops

BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT. On Thursday, 19 February 2015, Jim Wright presented the half-day workshop WS24: Effective Behavioral interventions: Consultation Tools for School Psychologists, at the National Association of School Psychologists' annual conference in Orlando, FL. Here are resources and links shared at that training:

• PPT: WS24: Effective Behavioral interventions: Consultation Tools for School Psychologists
• Workshop Handout

• School Motivation Assessment Form: Can't Do/Won't Do Assessment

1. Behavioral ‘Big Ideas’. What are big ideas that can help teachers to more effectively manage challenging student behaviors?

• Identifying the Big Ideas That Guide Effective Behavior Management

2. Classroom Management: Intervention Pathways. How can teachers set up behavior management in their classrooms to get the greatest benefit for the least effort?

• Classroom Management: Intervention Pathways

• Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker
• How to Implement Strong Core Instruction (Direct Instruction Checklist)
• Praise (Teacher Handout)
• Behavior Report Card Maker

3. Group Behavior Management. What are examples of behavior management that can improve on-task behavior for a group or entire class?

Group Behavior Management Ideas:

• Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms
• Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word.
• Good Behavior Game
• Teacher-Student Learning Game
• The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management
• Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom

4. Behavior Statement. How can the description of a student’s problem behavior be formatted to help the teacher to find effective strategies to fix that behavior?

• How To: Write Behavior Statements to Identify Causes of Student Misbehavior

5. Discipline: Building a Classroom Continuum. How can teachers increase their capacity to manage ‘low-level’ challenging behaviors within the classroom?

• How To: Handle Common Problem Behaviors Using a Classroom Management Menu

6. Strategies for Non-Compliance. What are sample strategies that teachers can use when working with non-compliant students?

• How To: Increase Motivation in Students: High-Probability Requests
• Non-Contingent Escape Break/No With Preferred Alternative/'Two by Ten': Relationship-Building
• Active Response Beads: Defusing Strategy

7. Progress-Monitoring.  What in an example of a measure that can be used to track the progress of students at risk for behavior or social emotional problems during interventions?

• Behavior Report Card Maker

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STUDENT SELF-MANAGEMENT. On Thursday, 19 February 2015, Jim Wright presented the half-day workshop WS28: Finding the Spark: How to Give Students the Tools to Manage Their Own Learning, at the National Association of School Psychologists' annual conference in Orlando, FL. Here are resources and links shared at that training:

• PPT: WS28: Finding the Spark: How to Give Students the Tools to Manage Their Own Learning
• Workshop Handout
• Supplemental Handout: Six Reasons Why Students Are Unmotivated (and What Teachers Can Do)

Motivation Challenge 1: The student is unmotivated because he or she cannot do the assigned work.

• How to Implement Strong Core Instruction (Direct Instruction Checklist) (Interactive Form)

Motivation Challenge 2: The student is unmotivated because the ‘response effort’ needed to complete the assigned work seems too great.

Motivation Challenge 3: The student is unmotivated because of learned helplessness—lack of confidence that he or she can do the assigned work.

• Read-Ask-Paraphrase. The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form

• Ask-Read-Tell. The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form.

• HANDOUT: Academic Survival Skills Checklists: 5 Ways to Help
• Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker

• Math Self-Correction Checklists. The student creates a short checklist containing his or her most frequent types of math errors and uses this checklist to check in-class and homework assignments before turning in.

• Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference: Description
• Student Independent Work: Planning Tool: Interactive Form
• Helping the Student Who is 'Under Water' With Late Assignments: A Structure for Teacher-Student Conferences

Motivation Challenge 4: The student is unmotivated because classroom instruction does not engage.

• Cooperative Learning Activity: Numbered Heads Together

Motivation Challenge 5: The student is unmotivated because he or she fails to see an adequate pay-off to doing the assigned work.

• Praise (Teacher Handout)
• Jackpot! Reward Finder

Motivation Challenge 6: The student is unmotivated because he or she lacks a positive relationship with the teacher.

Online Tools for Motivation:

• Jackpot Reward Finder
• Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker
• Behavior Report Card Maker
• Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker

Resources for Student Self-Monitoring:

• ‘How To: Teach Students to Change Behaviors Through Self-Monitoring: 9 Steps

• Self-Monitoring: Attention
• Self-Monitoring: Academic Productivity
• Self-Monitoring: General Classroom Behaviors
• Self-Monitoring: Check-In/Check-Out: Behavior Report Cards
• Fixed-Interval Audio Tapes (MP3 files)