Teacher-Delivered Behavior Interventions
With over 25 years of research, The Institute of Education Sciences, has published a guide for Teacher-Delivered Behavioral Interventions with practice recommendations for teaching behavioral interventions in schools:
Co-establish, model, and teach clear expectations for student behavior that is consistent with schoolwide expectations. Making expectations clear and explicitly teaching students helps children learn what to do helps prevent many behavioral problems before they occur.
Remind students to engage in expected behaviors. Precorrection (a reminder – verbal, visual, or physical – that guides students to engage in an expected behavior) as well as opportunities for practice and re-teaching build behavioral skills.
Acknowledge students for demonstrating expected behaviors. Positive attention, behavior-specific praise, and rewards promote student self-reflection and encourage them to engage in desired behaviors.
4. Offer instructional choices to students to increase engagement and agency. When instruction is differentiated to give students some choices they are more likely to participate in learning activities and take more responsibility for their learning.
5. Provide students with frequent and varying opportunities to respond to and engage in activities. Allowing students alternative ways to respond lets them to be more involved in learning activities, less likely to be off-task, and more ways to demonstrate competence.
6. Teach students to monitor and reflect on their own behavior. Self-monitoring supports a student’s ability to build self-determination and build greater independence in self-regulation.
7. Use behavior ratings to provide feedback to students. Providing students with
structured formal feedback on a consistent basis can communicate to students anfd
parents how well a student is meeting behavioral expectations.
The Institute of Education Science guide provides much more detail regarding each of these recommendations and is filled with great examples and resources to help educators build their capacity to support students’ behavioral growth. Whether you are trying to strengthen your Tier I interventions or developing a specialized program for students with emotional/behavioral disabilities, it provides evidence-based roadmaps of how to proceed.
Resource:
Teacher-Delivered Behavioral Interventions in Grade k-5: A Practice Guide for Educators
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This post was written by Dr. Holly Galbreath, Senior Solutions Consultant. Learn more about Dr. Galbreath and our other team members on the DECS About Us webpage.