Intervention. What are ten interventions that you do in your class when faced with challenging behavior? What is the single most important thing you do in your class to build a safe and positive classroom climate for learning?
1.) I've taken away privileges like using the Ipads and making them write on paper. 2.) Calling parents 3.) Time after class 4.) Taking out raffle tickets from their classroom jar 5.) Writing a reflection piece discussing their behavior and what role model behavior would look like. 6.) Talking to individual students just right outside my classroom so the other students can't hear what we're talking about. 7.) I haven't tried this, but other teachers have. Doing a "Get to Know You" activity where the students are talking about their lives. This might ease behavior issues. 8.) Seating charts 9.) Discussing with other co-workers that have the same students and tag teaming. Coming up with a strategy across curriculums to target bad behavior. 10.) Classroom reward systems
I conferenced with my department about the problems I was having with one period in particular of 7th grade IEP/behavior issue boys and what strategies they suggested.
Today is the third day in a row that I put my 7th grade boys group on a timer to go FIVE minutes without CURSING, THROWING SOMETHING AT EACH OTHER, or INSULTING EACH OTHER. They have to sit like that for 5 minutes before we get started on any activities they enjoy. The first day they sat for 20 minutes. Today was just the 5 mins. I had to remove ONE student who was hell bent on ruining it for the whole class though. But it seems to be going well. And I'm hoping the next time that ONE student learns that purposely screwing things up for the whole class means he'll just be removed. And hopefully he won't do it again. I'm trying to be really conscious about REAL and IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES. I try to remind myself each day that Nagging and yelling at them just does not work.
I've been very conscious of reminding them each morning that they may NOT curse in front of me or insult each other in front of me. And today I heard them reminding each other as I walked over to them. So I'm very hopeful that if I keep this up daily and it becomes a consistent thing with them we can eliminate the Ping Ponging of insults and foul language that they've been perpetuating all year.
Ten Interventions I use: 1. Dragon Pact discussion and reflection 2. Review/discuss report card grades and academic goal-setting 3. Asking the student what is causing them to misbehave and addressing the trigger 4. Observation of student behavior in the classroom setting 5. Reviewing AR & ALEKS progress then following up with action plan 6. Reviewing their referral/intervention history to analyze behavioral themes/patterns 7. Highlighting the link between their grades, work habits, and cooperation marks to their culmination eligibility and future high-school graduation 8. Find out out about their college & career plans and provide resources and encouragement down that path 9. Recommend books connected to their area of need such as books about anti-bullying, self esteem, motivation, etc. 10. Being pro-active and following up on issues that come to my attention via the Student Success Progress Team.
*To build a safe and positive climate for learning, I approach all students with a caring, supportive, problem-solving attitude to make a beneficial, effective connection with them.
Interventions I have used in my classroom behavior: 1. Review classroom rules/ dragon pact 2. Reflections on behavior/ apology letter 3. Behavior contracts/ consistent use of BSP 4. Daily 5. Text/emails/phone calls home positive/negative 6. incentives 7. Sorry: Every time that I have to speak to the class I stop and write each letter individually if by the end of class I have spelled out the entire word (sorry) students miss out on their chance on a preferred activity 8. Brain breaks/rj circle 9.Verbal reminders/cues 10.Frequent check for understanding/ individual conferencing to remind them of current grade and what they need to do be successful in class.
The things I do when faced with challenging student behaviors are as follows: 1. Enforce clear agreed upon rules consistently 2. Try to make a personal connection with students whenever possible 3. I count-downs from 1-5 4. I pull students aside privately to talk with them to see if anything outside of class is affecting their behavior 5. I try seating changes 6. Detention 7. Contact parents 8. Invite parents to observe classroom 9. Deliver praise where appropriate 10. Assign personal jobs 11. Three check system. Three checks means an automatic "U" for behavior on report card. They need two straight days of positive behavior to get rid of the "U" *I think the most important thing that promotes a safe classroom climate is consistency in enforcing agreed upon rules.
1) one-on-one conversations, on the side during or after class 2) individual and table based reward system 3) positive phone calls home 4) phone calls home about bad behavior 5) verbal reminders 6) have students do classroom jobs 7) moving seats/seating chart around 8) redirecting attention to classroom rules 9) detention 10) daily behavior reports
1) one-on-one check-in's on the spot if it's urgent, otherwise ask them to stay after class or I meet them after their last class of the day 2) ask other students with leadership characteristics to talk to student or calm them (if they have a good, strong relationship) 3) connect with other teachers who share the same students, ask them to connect/check-in with the student 4) connect with Beyond the Bell coaches or tutors 5) connect with counselors, parents/guardians 6) seat changes 7) sage spray 8) self-care 9) daily or weekly action plans for 8th graders 10) write notes/letters to highlight my hopes for the student
I think maybe the single most important thing I do in my class to try to build a safe space is to greet each individual who comes through my door and into my space, saying their name and giving an elbow bump
1. We go over the classroom rules. 2. Inform the students that these rules were agreed upon. 3. Individual conference with student. 4. Check frequently for understanding of the rules. 5. Individual and table based reward system 6. Positive phone calls home 7. Phone calls home about bad behavior 8. Moving seats/seating chart around 9. Invite parents to observe classroom 10. Deliver praise where appropriate
I will be honest in saying I don't have ten interventions. My biggest thing that works is respect, we do laugh in class, but there's always that line of respect, and that is what I think works for me. Sorry not much to say here.
1. The look. 2. Verbal warning 3. One one one chat. 4. Sit out of the group. 5. Phone call via cell-phone. 6. Revisiting rules/norms/agreements. I need to work on four more.
1. Asking challenging students to help out with something in the classroom (i.e. passing out papers, collecting, etc.) 2.set classroom routines - opening activities 3. positive phone calls home 4. talking to individuals students 5. time after class 6. seating chart/ switching seats. 7. verbal reminders 8. inviting parents 9. delivering praise 10. modeling expected behaviors
1. Verbal reminders 2. Review rules and expectations 3. Lessons that are broken up into 20 minute chunks 4. Brain breaks 5. Seat change 6. One on one conferences 7. Parent phone calls 8. Parent conferences 9. Behavioral charts 10. Top star of the week
Going over structures and protocols with students so they know how learning happens, how respect is shown, and possible consequences they may be faced when making mistakes. The consistency of these things is what puts limitations to challenging behavior.
1.Verbal Reminder 2. move seats 3. talk to student outside 4. parent call homes via blackboard 5. parent calls ( personal) 6. focusing on the kids modeling behavior 7. time after class/lunch
Holding ALL my students to high expectations (treating everyone the same, meaning that even my "good kids" will NOT get away with certain behavior. Kids see that you keep everyone on check, not just the same few kids every time. I think this strategy has helped me some of my challenging classes.
1.Class rules and Procedure 2.Acknowledge those who are doing the right thing 3.Warnings 4.Reminder of Class Rules 5.Individual Conversation 6.Parent Call 7.Seat Change 8.Detention 9.Parent Conference 10.Intervention Let students know what is acceptable behavior with positive reinforcement, and consistently address behavior that is not acceptable.
1. Take a deep breath (for myself) 2. Verbal reminder (ie. behavior contract reminder, rewarding positive behaviors, gently redirecting students) 3. Move seat 4. Provide student with a choice (ie. complete problems 1-5, break, complete 6-10) 5. Verbally remind student of their capabilities and strengths 6. Talk with student outside of the classroom 7. Provide student with a break 8. Call parent with student outside of the classroom 9. invite parent to sit with student during instructional time 10. Assign students with a job to assist teacher
1. Seat Change 2. Verbal Cues or Reminders 3. GIve students a choice on alternative assignments 4.Talk to student outside 5. Give student a break to cool off 6. Call Parents 7. Detention (lunch or after school) 8. Assign duty (classroom clean up) 9. Behavior plan 10. Parent Conference
1. Call parents 2. Give student a break/alternative activity isolated 3. Give student choices for altervative activity or break for completion of chunk of work 4. Talk with student one on one 5. New seat in class 6. Verbal reminders or cues 7. Take a deep breath 8. Give student a task to help out the classroom 9. Have a talk about the DRAGON Pact 10. Ask parent to come to class.
1. I try to politely redirect the students behavior, (TRY)! 2. Verbal reminders 3. Loss of privileges 4. Phone call home 5. Writing reflections 6. Seat change 7. Lunch detention 8. Document behavior 9. Dragon Pact 10. Class Rules
How teachers start, implement transitions and end classes-from bell to bell is very informative in how interventions are implemented. Will there be a successful launch, flight and landing- equally for EVERY child in the class room equally is our challenge. Its curious when we see certain students with behavior issues in certain classes and little or none with others? Its a great inquiry question that is part of our journey as educators. What know is that we have an artillery of expert teachers who ensure ALL students are engaged, never give up on not a ONE and find their remedy to daily challenges. This is a long process and never a quick fix. Our challenge will be to systemically implement Level 1 best practices in all classes, equally for all students-some say this is social justice too. I know we have the best teachers at YOKA who will never give up, see mistakes as opportunities to learn, seek self improvement and share their pearls of intervention openly and readily to all-this is what we call distributed leadership. Keep filling your tool box of best practices, and discard those that don't work with certain classes, groups or individual. Its a process and there is no one static answer only continued practice of intervention. My stride was not met until year 6-8 I recall with lots of help from my peer teachers along the way-keep sharing!!
1.) I've taken away privileges like using the Ipads and making them write on paper.
ReplyDelete2.) Calling parents
3.) Time after class
4.) Taking out raffle tickets from their classroom jar
5.) Writing a reflection piece discussing their behavior and what role model behavior would look like.
6.) Talking to individual students just right outside my classroom so the other students can't hear what we're talking about.
7.) I haven't tried this, but other teachers have. Doing a "Get to Know You" activity where the students are talking about their lives. This might ease behavior issues.
8.) Seating charts
9.) Discussing with other co-workers that have the same students and tag teaming. Coming up with a strategy across curriculums to target bad behavior.
10.) Classroom reward systems
I conferenced with my department about the problems I was having with one period in particular of 7th grade IEP/behavior issue boys and what strategies they suggested.
ReplyDeleteToday is the third day in a row that I put my 7th grade boys group on a timer to go FIVE minutes without CURSING, THROWING SOMETHING AT EACH OTHER, or INSULTING EACH OTHER. They have to sit like that for 5 minutes before we get started on any activities they enjoy. The first day they sat for 20 minutes. Today was just the 5 mins. I had to remove ONE student who was hell bent on ruining it for the whole class though. But it seems to be going well. And I'm hoping the next time that ONE student learns that purposely screwing things up for the whole class means he'll just be removed. And hopefully he won't do it again. I'm trying to be really conscious about REAL and IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES. I try to remind myself each day that Nagging and yelling at them just does not work.
I've been very conscious of reminding them each morning that they may NOT curse in front of me or insult each other in front of me. And today I heard them reminding each other as I walked over to them. So I'm very hopeful that if I keep this up daily and it becomes a consistent thing with them we can eliminate the Ping Ponging of insults and foul language that they've been perpetuating all year.
Ten Interventions I use:
ReplyDelete1. Dragon Pact discussion and reflection
2. Review/discuss report card grades and academic goal-setting
3. Asking the student what is causing them to misbehave and addressing the trigger
4. Observation of student behavior in the classroom setting
5. Reviewing AR & ALEKS progress then following up with action plan
6. Reviewing their referral/intervention history to analyze behavioral themes/patterns
7. Highlighting the link between their grades, work habits, and cooperation marks to their culmination eligibility and future high-school graduation
8. Find out out about their college & career plans and provide resources and encouragement down that path
9. Recommend books connected to their area of need such as books about anti-bullying, self esteem, motivation, etc.
10. Being pro-active and following up on issues that come to my attention via the Student Success Progress Team.
*To build a safe and positive climate for learning, I approach all students with a caring, supportive, problem-solving attitude to make a beneficial, effective connection with them.
Interventions I have used in my classroom behavior:
ReplyDelete1. Review classroom rules/ dragon pact
2. Reflections on behavior/ apology letter
3. Behavior contracts/ consistent use of BSP
4. Daily
5. Text/emails/phone calls home positive/negative
6. incentives
7. Sorry: Every time that I have to speak to the class I stop and write each letter individually if by the end of class I have spelled out the entire word (sorry) students miss out on their chance on a preferred activity
8. Brain breaks/rj circle
9.Verbal reminders/cues
10.Frequent check for understanding/ individual conferencing to remind them of current grade and what they need to do be successful in class.
The things I do when faced with challenging student behaviors are as follows:
ReplyDelete1. Enforce clear agreed upon rules consistently
2. Try to make a personal connection with students whenever possible
3. I count-downs from 1-5
4. I pull students aside privately to talk with them to see if anything outside of class is affecting their behavior
5. I try seating changes
6. Detention
7. Contact parents
8. Invite parents to observe classroom
9. Deliver praise where appropriate
10. Assign personal jobs
11. Three check system. Three checks means an automatic "U" for behavior on report card. They need two straight days of positive behavior to get rid of the
"U"
*I think the most important thing that promotes a safe classroom climate is consistency in enforcing agreed upon rules.
1) one-on-one conversations, on the side during or after class
ReplyDelete2) individual and table based reward system
3) positive phone calls home
4) phone calls home about bad behavior
5) verbal reminders
6) have students do classroom jobs
7) moving seats/seating chart around
8) redirecting attention to classroom rules
9) detention
10) daily behavior reports
1) one-on-one check-in's on the spot if it's urgent, otherwise ask them to stay after class or I meet them after their last class of the day
ReplyDelete2) ask other students with leadership characteristics to talk to student or calm them (if they have a good, strong relationship)
3) connect with other teachers who share the same students, ask them to connect/check-in with the student
4) connect with Beyond the Bell coaches or tutors
5) connect with counselors, parents/guardians
6) seat changes
7) sage spray
8) self-care
9) daily or weekly action plans for 8th graders
10) write notes/letters to highlight my hopes for the student
I think maybe the single most important thing I do in my class to try to build a safe space is to greet each individual who comes through my door and into my space, saying their name and giving an elbow bump
1. We go over the classroom rules.
ReplyDelete2. Inform the students that these rules were agreed upon.
3. Individual conference with student.
4. Check frequently for understanding of the rules.
5. Individual and table based reward system
6. Positive phone calls home
7. Phone calls home about bad behavior
8. Moving seats/seating chart around
9. Invite parents to observe classroom
10. Deliver praise where appropriate
I will be honest in saying I don't have ten interventions. My biggest thing that works is respect, we do laugh in class, but there's always that line of respect, and that is what I think works for me. Sorry not much to say here.
ReplyDelete1. The look.
ReplyDelete2. Verbal warning
3. One one one chat.
4. Sit out of the group.
5. Phone call via cell-phone.
6. Revisiting rules/norms/agreements.
I need to work on four more.
1. Asking challenging students to help out with something in the classroom (i.e. passing out papers, collecting, etc.)
ReplyDelete2.set classroom routines - opening activities
3. positive phone calls home
4. talking to individuals students
5. time after class
6. seating chart/ switching seats.
7. verbal reminders
8. inviting parents
9. delivering praise
10. modeling expected behaviors
1. Verbal reminders
ReplyDelete2. Review rules and expectations
3. Lessons that are broken up into 20 minute chunks
4. Brain breaks
5. Seat change
6. One on one conferences
7. Parent phone calls
8. Parent conferences
9. Behavioral charts
10. Top star of the week
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ReplyDeleteGoing over structures and protocols with students so they know how learning happens, how respect is shown, and possible consequences they may be faced when making mistakes. The consistency of these things is what puts limitations to challenging behavior.
ReplyDelete1.Verbal Reminder
ReplyDelete2. move seats
3. talk to student outside
4. parent call homes via blackboard
5. parent calls ( personal)
6. focusing on the kids modeling behavior
7. time after class/lunch
Holding ALL my students to high expectations (treating everyone the same, meaning that even my "good kids" will NOT get away with certain behavior. Kids see that you keep everyone on check, not just the same few kids every time. I think this strategy has helped me some of my challenging classes.
1.Class rules and Procedure
ReplyDelete2.Acknowledge those who are doing the right thing
3.Warnings
4.Reminder of Class Rules
5.Individual Conversation
6.Parent Call
7.Seat Change
8.Detention
9.Parent Conference
10.Intervention
Let students know what is acceptable behavior with positive reinforcement, and consistently address behavior that is not acceptable.
1. Take a deep breath (for myself)
ReplyDelete2. Verbal reminder (ie. behavior contract reminder, rewarding positive behaviors, gently redirecting students)
3. Move seat
4. Provide student with a choice (ie. complete problems 1-5, break, complete 6-10)
5. Verbally remind student of their capabilities and strengths
6. Talk with student outside of the classroom
7. Provide student with a break
8. Call parent with student outside of the classroom
9. invite parent to sit with student during instructional time
10. Assign students with a job to assist teacher
1. Seat Change
ReplyDelete2. Verbal Cues or Reminders
3. GIve students a choice on alternative assignments
4.Talk to student outside
5. Give student a break to cool off
6. Call Parents
7. Detention (lunch or after school)
8. Assign duty (classroom clean up)
9. Behavior plan
10. Parent Conference
1. Call parents
ReplyDelete2. Give student a break/alternative activity isolated
3. Give student choices for altervative activity or break for completion of chunk of work
4. Talk with student one on one
5. New seat in class
6. Verbal reminders or cues
7. Take a deep breath
8. Give student a task to help out the classroom
9. Have a talk about the DRAGON Pact
10. Ask parent to come to class.
1. I try to politely redirect the students behavior, (TRY)!
ReplyDelete2. Verbal reminders
3. Loss of privileges
4. Phone call home
5. Writing reflections
6. Seat change
7. Lunch detention
8. Document behavior
9. Dragon Pact
10. Class Rules
How teachers start, implement transitions and end classes-from bell to bell is very informative in how interventions are implemented. Will there be a successful launch, flight and landing- equally for EVERY child in the class room equally is our challenge. Its curious when we see certain students with behavior issues in certain classes and little or none with others? Its a great inquiry question that is part of our journey as educators. What know is that we have an artillery of expert teachers who ensure ALL students are engaged, never give up on not a ONE and find their remedy to daily challenges. This is a long process and never a quick fix. Our challenge will be to systemically implement Level 1 best practices in all classes, equally for all students-some say this is social justice too. I know we have the best teachers at YOKA who will never give up, see mistakes as opportunities to learn, seek self improvement and share their pearls of intervention openly and readily to all-this is what we call distributed leadership. Keep filling your tool box of best practices, and discard those that don't work with certain classes, groups or individual. Its a process and there is no one static answer only continued practice of intervention. My stride was not met until year 6-8 I recall with lots of help from my peer teachers along the way-keep sharing!!
ReplyDeleteGreat lists teachers-lets keep this going and revisit this monthly would be informative to all school stakeholders.
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