Raise the Bar: Positive Interventions for Students Who Challenge Us

Course 5849

Challenging behavior can certainly get in the way of academic progress, but there is hope! This course gives plenty of techniques and strategies for K-8 teachers to proactively assist students in achieving target behaviors through positive behavior intervention. By deconstructing the functions of the problem behaviors, educational professionals can address the root of a child’s issue instead of simply addressing the behavior.

This course gives a solid road map for the philosophy behind positive behavior intervention systems (PBIS) while offering several different ways to get you (and your students) to your destination: appropriate behavior that is conducive to a positive learning environment.

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What you will learn:

Goals and Objectives of this Course:

  • Use provided prompts specific to positive behavior intervention to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
  • Design a social skills lesson, individualized social skills plan and/or reinforcement menu.
  • Prepare an activity to collaborate with colleagues or students on improving student behavior.
  • Implement revisions to a lesson to increase engagement and decrease behavior.
  • Develop an action plan to challenge the status quo related to Functional Behavioral Assessments.
  • Document, in writing, settings, triggering antecedents and "payoffs" for displaying undesirable behavior to determine function of behavior.
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