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1. What are some strategies you use to implement prosocial behavior? The most often overlooked aspect of implementing desired behaviors is to establish a positive relationship and model the behavior you want to see from your students. As the old saying goes, “Treat others as you would like to be treated”. This has worked extremely well for me in all levels of secondary classrooms. Once students figure out a teacher truly cares, student buy in of procedures and class rules is usually accomplished. First contact with parents should be positive, therefore, if a concern is communicated at a later date the parent should be receptive. As discussed in the text, “clear expectations about when it is acceptable to talk or move around the room, …show more content…

Incorporating families into a behavioral plan can be a daunting task as some students receive little to no parental involvement in their academic and social lives. Reaching out to the family with a positive message and establishing a positive relationship with the student and family is a great first step that, consequently, will make “soliciting the assistance of families and students in putting any problem in writing to ensure that everyone agrees on what needs to be changed(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 75)” can occur.
8. Why do students whose behavior is aggressive require professional help and treatment? Aggressive behavior leads to safety issues for all involved, therefore, all resources available should be implemented to prevent and treat students that demonstrate aggressive behavior. “Aggression does not go away without treatment and specific skills for teaching students to deal more effectively with their aggressive responses are an important component of social skills programs(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. …show more content…

Building administration should implement “a schoolwide adoption of consistent and fluent model(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 76)” concerning rules, procedures, and discipline. Simply put, there has to be a change of culture within the school. Faculty and administration have to hold each other accountable in implementing the culture change because hard decisions will have to made and examples will have to be set. Recently, “positive behavioral intervention and supports(PBIS) model has been developed to focus on individualized interventions that stress prevention of problem behaviors through effective educational programming to improve an individual’s quality of life(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 76)”.
10. What are some effective ways of arranging the instructional environment that you’ve used in your classroom?
“The term instructional arrangement refers to the manner in which a teacher organizes instructional groups to promote learning and behavior(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 95)”. The textbook identifies six instructional arrangements and I have used all of them in a classroom. The six instructional arrangements are: “large-group instruction, small-group instruction, one-to-one instruction, independent learning, cooperative learning, peer teaching, and classwide peer tutoring(Vaughn & Bos, 2015, p. 95)”. My prefered arrangement is one-to-one instruction and is the main reason

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