Here are resources from Jim Wright's workshop on behavior management:
- PowerPoint: [1]Managing Challenging Classroom Behaviors: A Toolkit for Mental Health Professionals [1]
- Workshop Handout 1 [2]
- Workshop Handout 2 [3]
- Teaching Students with Severe Emotional andBehavioral Disorders:BEST PRACTICES GUIDE TO INTERVENTION. [4] This manual was created joinlty by a Washington-state school district Seattle University. It contains guidance on how to work with students who show severe problem behaviors.
- Analyzing Student Behavior: Organizer: Interactive [5]
- Classroom Behavior Intervention Planner: Interactive [6]
- School-Home Note. [7]In this intervention, the teacher shares information about the student's daily behaviors with the parent(s), who provide rewards at home for appropriate school performance.
Here are additional resources shared at the training:
1. Behavior Management: Introduction. What is RTI-Behavior?
2. Big Ideas in Behavior Management. This handful of powerful concepts can lay the groundwork for teacher success in managing challenging behaviors.
- Identifying the Big Ideas That Guide Effective Behavior Management [9]
- Problem Behaviors: Why Do They Occur? This 1-page handout lists the most common 'causes' of student problem behavior. [10]
3. Class-Wide Behavior Management. The well-managed classroom emphasizes strong instruction, clear behavioral expectations, and positive student interaction.
- Tier 1 Class-Wide Management) Checklist [12]
- How to Implement Strong Core Instruction: Direct Instruction Checklist (Interactive Form) [13]
- Teacher-Student Learning Game [14]
4. The Inattentive/Anxious/Non-Compliant Student. While every student has unique needs, teachers who understand the profile of common behavior disorders can be better prepared to support these students.
- ADHD: School-Home Notes: Enlisting the Teacher, Parent, and Studentto Improve Behavior [7]
- Non-Compliant: Precision Requests: Making Directives and Consequences Clear [15]
- Anxiety: Managing Academic Anxiety Through an Antecedent Writing Activity [16]
5. Preventing Problem Behaviors. These proactive intervention ideas are designed to prevent challenging behaviors—a win-win for teacher and student.
- Antecedents: Strategies to Prevent Misbehavior [17]
- How To: Use the Power of Personal Connection to Motivate Students [18]
- How to Reduce TIme-Outs With Active Response Beads [19]
- Reducing Disruptive Behavior Through Antecedent Physical Exercise [20]
6. Reinforcing Appropriate Behaviors. Good behavior management locks in desired student behaviors by consistently recognizing and reinforcing them.
- Positive Consequences: Responses That Increase Positive/Goal Behaviors [21]
- Praise (Teacher Handout) [22]
- VIDEO: How to Manage Behavior in the Classroom: Praise [23]
7. Managing Problem Behaviors. When problems occur, the teacher can use these strategies to minimize attention while redirecting the student to task.
8. Behavior Plans: How to Build One. Teachers can use this template to create a classroom behavior plan that is both simple and comprehensive in scope.
9. Behavior Plans: Show Me the Data. Collecting classroom data to regularly monitor student behavior can be the greatest hurdle to a successful intervention plan. Behavior report cards and checklists are two feasible ‘go-to’ methods to track almost any classroom behavior.
- Behavior Report Card Maker. [26]This app allows the teacher to format and print off customized daily behavior report cards for classroom data collection.
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. [27]Using this tool, educators can create customized behavior checklists for a variety of uses.
10. Managing Students in Crisis. The Aggression Cycle is a tool that demonstrates how student anger escalates through predictable stages and how teachers should respond to each stage.
How to individualize instruction. What are ideas to differentiate/scaffold instruction for academic success?
Here are tools for determining/adjusting level of text difficulty:
- Lexile Analyzer. [29]This free site allows teachers to calculate Lexile (readability) levels for text samples of up to 1000 words.
- Newsela. [30]This free site contains current news stories. Each story is written to match multiple Lexile levels.
- Smithsonian Tween Tribune. [31]Articles from this site are written at 4 Lexile levels. https://www.tweentribune.com/ [31]