Week 4 Assignment

Kids in the classroom are sometimes going to have behavior issues. Often times these behaviors can be corrected easily with a kind reminder or other simple redirection. Other times students may engage in behavior that is more disruptive to others and requires a more direct course of action. In the classroom a brief Time-Out and provide the student with that needed correction. A Time-Out in the classroom gives students a time to separate themselves from their behavior and stop and think about what corrective measures they need to engage in. A good Time-Out will also keep a student in a place within the classroom that they can still follow along and listen to what is happening in the class. In this way students can correct their behavior as needed by taking a short Time-Out in the classroom.

Week Three Post

Positive reinforcement can be a powerful tool when we are helping our children achieve success in the classroom. When a child acts out inappropriately in the classroom, sometimes punishing that behavior only encourages the student further to act out and does not address the root cause of why the behavior is taking place. In the classrooms we as teachers strive to teach not only content to our students, but also teach them how to act appropriately, how to work with others, and how they can receive positive attention from the teacher and others. Through positive reinforcement of that behavior we are able to help children see on their own why they should engage in appropriate behavior and why it is a better option for them than acting inappropriately.

Module 2 Application

Sometimes despite our best efforts at home and at school certain students still exhibit negative behavior. We may feel like we are doing all we can to help, but feel frustrated when there are little to no results for our efforts. The seven high-hit problems help parents and teachers identify underlying causes for behavior, and what kind of interventions might be most beneficial in helping a student overcome negative behavior and engage in positive behavior. By looking at a student’s behavior and asking some basic questions about the situation, we can better identify what high-hit problem the student is struggling with and what can be done to overcome. By creating a positive environment where students are equipped to self-monitor their behavior teachers create a safe situation where students can learn and achieve.

Module 1 Application

Module 1 Application. I am not on the RIT committee at my school. I work with our PBIS team. There is not a lot of communication or working together between these two committees, but I think there should be. On the one hand PBIS works to create school wide behavior management programs, and then the RIT works with creating interventions for students who are not demonstrating success in the classroom. There seems to be a lot of opportunities for these two teams to be working more closely together to not only work on developing positive management systems, but at the same time developing tiered interventions for those instances when students are not working well within the regular classroom environment.