Changing Behaivor Case Study

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Changing Behaivor
Overview
The behaivor that caused so much hassle within the daycare cente r I am placed at for practice teaching would be the word no. When a child doesn't know to express themselves the word no seems like the way to go when your friends are trying to help you when you don't want their help. J has this problem when friends were trying to help him and he didn't want their help. After a long morning group time the children are either let play in the gym or get to play outside on the playground. After a half of an hour of that the children are put in a line and marched back to the classroom told to wash their hand and then giving a chance to have a free playtime. After J washes his hands he runs to the block center and begans …show more content…

I walk over and ask him what it is he wants to bulid and if he would like help. He says yes and says that he would like to bulid a house I agree to help him bulid the house. Other children surround us but they are content playing with the cars and the wooden blocks. A child come near us with a toy car and starts knocking the house we are buliding down with the car that he has in his hand. J becomes very upset very fast after this happens and suddenly starts to shout NOO at the other student. The other child then smiles and drive the car away from the site of the magnetic blocks. I help J to then clean up the mess and start to bulid another house as we bulid the house again another child come near and wants to help he begans to place triangles on the house so we cant put the squares on in the right places to bulid the house. J becomes upset again. He yells NOO again and rips of the triangle pieces placeing them on the ground. The other children then looks at me for how he should react. So this change of behavior for J would be using nicer words to tell his friends that he doesn't enjoy what it is that they are doing and that he doesn't want their help buliding with the blocks. This behavior change is all thanks to the …show more content…

Also I also used individualized intensive interventions handout but I used it in the classroom rather then at home. The individualed intensive intevention handout was very helpful because it broke down the action that was unwanted into four stages. The stages are what happened before the behavior, What happened after the bahavior, What was the purpose of the behavior, and setting events/lifestyle influences. Which really helped to isolate what the problems were.
Strategy
Before the behavior change project was started J was saying NO easily seven times during free playtime in the block area when his friends would knock down his house or try to help him bulid the house up. The plan that I came up with to change this behavior was to model the correct word choice and remind J of what to say when his friends did things that he didn't like. We started with constant reminders of what to say and slowly worked our way down to just one reminder before freeplay time started. One modification that I made being in the classroom was anytime I saw a child having a problem with another student I would tell them to say no thank to the child doing to action that they didn't

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