Thursday, May 6, 2010

Tier 1 Interventions
Tier 2 Interventions
Tier 3 Interventions
  • Active Supervision s
  • Defusing techniques
  • Varied Pacing
  • Visual and verbal prompting
  • Many opportunities to respond
  • Instructional delivery
  • Parent involvement
  • Social skills instruction – general skills
  • Assignments on academic level
  • Reading seatwork at academic level
  • Reinforce positive behaviors, not punish negative behaviors
  • Proximity Control
  • Token economy à earn bucks to spend at class store
  • Flexible grouping
  • Collaborative planning with grade level teachers and SPED team
  • Explicit teaching of expectations
  • Consistency when enforcing the rules/expectations

  • Role play to demonstrate appropriate responses
  • Change the setting to take away what may trigger behaviors – for example if proximity to a particular child or location within the room will trigger a bad response move the student’s seat away from those locations
  • Fading out support
  • Precorrection—intervene before triggers occur (analysis necessary)
  • Task interspersal
  • Social skill instruction – specific to student need, or small group need
  • Debriefing sessions
  • Alternate difficult tasks with not difficult tasks
  • Follow every non-desired activity with a desired activity
  • Frequent breaks during undesired activities
  • Serve a detention the length of the amount of academic time wasted
  • Scheduled time to catch up on missed work
  • Safe spot/Buddy Room

  • Triage in the morning and afternoon
  • Reduce number of responses on required assignments
  • Receive points or praise for attempts to complete work
  • Provide choices
  • Self-Management or self-monitoring – reminder to stay on task delivered every four minutes…maybe the use of a timer that goes off every four minutes, a walkman that will prompt you to stay on task
  • Visual schedule so students could see when they are going to have to transition and will know what the upcoming activities are
  • Have students show their mastery based on their learning style – orally, visually, or written
  • Reinforce positive behaviors, not punish negative behaviors
  • Provide Illustrations for directions
  • Provide illustrations for all rules/expectations
  • Picture cards for communication
  • When the student receives a certain amount of pluses they will go to the teacher to receive praise or a reward
  • Use visuals to show how you’re a feeling instead of throwing a fit
  • A journal allowing the student to write down how they are feeling when they are frustrated instead of throwing a tantrum or shutting down
  • Increase frequency of rewards
  • Tape line boundaries within the classroom that the student is not allowed to leave without permission from the teacher
  • Offer choices---within limits that meet academic standards, such as: deciding which of two activities to do first, deciding which two crayons to use in a drawing etc…
  • Provide explicit vocabulary instructions in smaller grouping with focus on one student per day, hour, or activity as much as possible.
  • Use mnemonic devices
  • Utilize graphic organizers
  • Allow student to complete work and allow for student correction without penalty
  • Give students an example of how another student completed the same assignment
  • When work is missed or not completed check for understanding of concepts before counting against grade.
  • Get the student to keep a to do list and show them how to mark off completed items. Expect the student to present each day or week. When correct give extra time or grade point.
  • Tell the students that a reward will be given for assignments turned in early to teach the student to avoid procrastination


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