- 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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