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Education Services
Specialized Classroom Management
BENEFITS IN THE CLASSROOM
- Improved relationships between students, teachers and administrators.
- Immediate feedback and consequence with the primary focus on teaching rather than punishing.
- Increased time spent on task.
- Consistent system to deal with both positive and negative behavior.
- Decreased likelihood of student and teacher frustration.
- Methods for data collection.
- Increased likelihood that students will be mainstreamed successfully.
BENEFITS IN YOUR SCHOOL
- Fewer office referrals.
- A consistent framework for teaching behavior expectations.
- A positive learning environment and less problem behavior.
- Improved communication among teachers.
- Improved communication with parents.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Section 1: Introduction and Overview
This section includes opportunities for you to share information about your classroom. There will be activities designed to break the ice and create a positive learning environment.
Section 2: Perspectives
You will share your views on your classroom before and after you experience a guided image of a child's day. You will see how both the head and the heart are needed when working with children in the classroom.
Section 3: Curriculum Skills
You will recognize the inter-connectedness of behavior by discussing the antecedent, the behavior and the consequence. You will learn how they control outcomes. In addition, you will learn how to use a functional assessment to identify skill deficits in students.
Section 4: Specificity
You will see why it is important to describe and explain behaviors specifically when talking to students, seeing that vague, judgmental terminology can be an antecedent to undesirable behavior. Participants will be able to observe and describe behavior and give directions specifically following this section.
Section 5: Rationales
Discover how rationales can help students internalize and generalize skills. You will learn three types of rationales and what makes a good rationale.
Section 6: Proactive Teaching
You will learn how to incorporate specificity, task analysis and rationales into your lesson plan. You will also plan a group lesson and role-play a one-on-one proactive teaching lesson.
Section 7: Perceiving Opportunities
You will identify opportunities to teach using either praise or correction. You will also become aware of issues that influence whether responding to the behavior occurs.
Section 8: Effective Praise
You will be encouraged to increase the amount of praise you provide to students and learn why that's so important. You will distinguish between general, specific and effective praise and discuss when to use each.
Section 9: Effective Praise Group Activity
You will practice the Effective Praise interaction in small group role-play exercises. You will also be given feedback and suggestions on how to enhance your competency.
Section 10: Corrective Teaching
You will learn to systematically respond to inappropriate behavior using Corrective Teaching. You will also analyze continuums of interventions and consequences to see how this teaching interaction can be applied to the situation.
Section 11: Corrective Teaching Group Activity
You will have an opportunity to practice the Corrective Teaching interaction in small group role-play. You will also receive feedback and suggestions to help you improve your interactions.
Section 12: Teaching Self-Control
You will become more aware of personal coping strategies and learn how to teach those strategies to your students. You will learn the conflict cycle and discover ways to stop behavior before it escalates.
Section 13: Crisis Teaching Group Activity
You will role-play in small groups so you can practice the Crisis Teaching interaction.
Section 14: Introduction to Motivation Systems
You will discuss the benefits and problems associated with motivation systems. You will hear an overview of the Girls and Boys Town Motivation System, including its goals and who it benefits.
Section 15: Daily Point System
You will learn the first level of the motivation system, including the mechanics and purpose of daily points. Guidelines on how to implement the point system will be provided, including the rationale behind point cards and the characteristics of students at that level. You will also be introduced to the concept of positive correction.
Section 16: Progress Card
You will be introduced to the second level of the motivation system, the progress level. You will learn how students advance from daily points to the progress card. In addition, you will learn how to use the card, how to differentiate between the two levels and how to negotiate with students for points.
Section 17: Merit and Mainstreaming
You will learn what the expectations of students on the merit system are, including the goals of the system and how students achieve merit status. You will also develop plans to mainstream students successfully back into their regular classes.
Section 18: End of the Day Conferencing/Menus and Purchasing
You will learn how to conference with students at the end of the day. This includes maintaining records of the students' accounts and helping them set behavior goals. In addition, you will be given guidelines for developing a point exchange menu and monitoring the purchasing of privileges.
Section 19: Administrative Intervention/System Level Changes
You will learn how to set expectations for teachers and students when returning from an office referral. You will also learn how contracts and escape clauses work and how to set appropriate consequences for students, depending on what level of the system they are in.
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