Behavior Support Proposal

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There are many techniques and strategies for teachers who are faced with students that display negative outbursts that may result in not only socially, emotionally, and academic effects on that individual student, but also the behaviors may escalate to being physical where the student, staff, and peers may be harmed in escalated altercations. The article “Evidence-Based Practices for Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Improving Academic Achievement,” by Cythia Farley, Caroline Torress, Cat-Uyen T. Wailehua, and Lysandra Cook, provides many strategies that can help students monitor and control their negative behaviors. Also Darlene H. Anderson et al., provide an amazing intervention for helping with anger management in their research …show more content…

The research in both articles does stress that daily assessments are critical for aiding individuals who may have physical outbursts so that the right protocols should be taken and implemented for that particular student. Each case study in the literature uses functional behavioral assessments (FBA) to help develop a behavior support plan. Both studies show how a student’s individual FBA can help create strategies and therapeutic techniques to help de-esculate negative behavior encounters. In the article by Ms. Anderson et al., stresses that their “cool-card” strategy implements both self-instruction and anger-management strategies to help prevent negative outbursts to help increase academic achievement (Anderson 1). Self-instruction strategies consist of students independently being able to view and complete daily schedules through check-lists step by step instruction of what the student has to do throughout the day. Anger-management strategies that Anderson et al. suggests in their research is therapeutic techniques where a student that is displaying frustration can either do deep breathing exercises or meditation strategies to help reduce frustration or energy. Other strategies that Anderson et al. have found to be useful is to take breaks throughout the day when the student is feeling overwhelmed or frustrated (Anderson 6). Ms. Farley et al. also uses a FBA for individuals but have revealed that peer-tutoring will help decrease behavior outbursts and help increase positive social interactions with classroom peers (Farley 4). Ms. Farley et al. focuses on students who have negative outbursts in class have resulted in those individuals creating detrimental relationships with their peers. Their research revealed that with peer-tutoring for

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