Description
The revised and expanded edition of a popular book trusted in classrooms across the country, Behavior Support is your guide to implementing effective positive behavior support (PBS)—both in the classroom and across an entire school. You'll get explicit, research-based strategies for implementing the three tiers of PBS:
- universal, school-wide interventions;
- selected interventions with students exhibiting risk behaviors; and
- specialized interventions with students who need intensive, individualized help.
Packed with updated strategies on hot topics, redesigned forms, and the newest research on multitiered systems of support, this new edition will help you support positive changes in your students' behavior—so you can keep the focus on learning. (Ideal for both in-service teacher training and college and university courses!)
RESEARCH-BASED STRATEGIES FOR HELPING STUDENTS:
- Stop challenging behavior before it starts
- Improve communication, social, and self-control skills
- Form positive, respectful relationships with classmates, teachers, and other community members
- Take a more active part in their school, classroom, and community
WHAT'S NEW: More research and strategies on key topics, including bullying prevention, safe and responsive school climates, functional assessment, and individual student interventions. You'll also get more explicit step-by-step instructions, new case examples, tips on sustaining PBS in your school, redesigned forms that are practical and easy to use, and focusing questions for each chapter that highlight key takeaways.
This revised and expanded edition is your guide to implementing effective positive behavior support. Includes more on bullying prevention, safe and responsive school climates, and functional behavior analysis.
Reviews
Review by: Fredda Brown, Professor, Queens College, City University of NY
“This book captures both the science and spirit of positive behavior supports.”
Review by: Rose Iovannone, Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, University of South Florida
“A very useful book that should be in the possession of all district and school-based positive behavior support teams as well as all teachers.”
Review by: Robin Drogan, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
“A powerful read with helpful tools and student snapshots that lend insightful ideas to support effective practice.”
Review by: Kristen GoldMansour, Owner GoldMansour and Rutherford, Director of Professional Development and Inclusive Practices
“A crucial tool for teachers successfully provides educators with the background information, big-picture understanding, and hands-on classroom-based tools they need to implement inclusive and positive educational strategies.”
Review by: Tim Knoster, Bloomsburg University
“A great resource for teachers and colleagues who are invested in effectively educating students with learning and behavior problems in inclusive settings.”
Table of Contents
About the Authors
About the Forms
Acknowledgments
- Positive Behavior Support
Three-tiered Model of School-wide Systems for Student Support
Using Positive Behavior Support in Schools
Core Features and Principles of Positive Behavior Support
Positive Behavior Support Teams
- School-wide Positive Behavior Support
Rationale for Primary Tier School-wide Positive Behavior Support
A Safe and Responsive School Climate
School-wide Unified Discipline Approach
Active Development of Social and Emotional Competencies
Bully Prevention in Positive Behavior Support
Systems-Change Process for Establishing and Sustaining SWPBS
- Class-wide and Selected Interventions
Class-wide Interventions
Team Facilitation of Selected Interventions
Identifying Students of Selected Interventions
Matching Identified Students with Selected Interventions
Simple Functional Behavioral Assessment
Adopting and Implementing Selected Intervention
Monitoring, Evaluating, and Sustaining Selected Interventions
- Individualized Positive Behavior Support: Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment
What is Functional Behavioral Assessment?
Step 1: Identify the Problem (s) and Decide on Priorities: Make a Plan for Safety Management
Step 2: Plan and Conduct the Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
- Designing, Using, and Evaluating Individualized Positive Behavior Supports
Step 3: Design an Individualized Positive Behavior Support Plan
Step 4: Implement, Monitor, and Evaluate the PBS Plan
References
Appendix A: Blank Forms
Team Meeting Agenda and Minutes
Steps and Tools to Develop Individualized Positive Behavior Supports (PBS)
Program-at-a-Glance
Step 1A Worksheet: Problem Identification and Decisions about Priorities
Step 1B Worksheet: Safety Plan
Incident Record
Step 2A Worksheet: Student-Centered Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) Profile
Student Schedule Analysis
Interval Recording or Scatter Plot
Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence Observation
Step 2C Worksheet: Summary of Functional Behavioral Assessment and Hypothesis Statement(s)
Step 3 Worksheet: Positive Behavior Support Plan
Step 4 Worksheet: Implementing, Monitoring, and Evaluating the PBS Plan
ABC Checklist
Appendix B: Resources on Behavioral Support
Index