Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Positive Behavioral Supports and Interventions

According to PBIS.org, "The TA center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices." School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports are used for student's with special needs to give these student's access to the most effective instructional and behavioral practices and interventions as possible. SWPBIS is a decision making framework that promotes improving academic and behavioral outcomes for all students. The 4 SWPBIS elements are data, outcomes, practices, and systems that support social competence, academic behavior, decision making, and student behavior. These four elements are guided by principles of: arranging an environment that prevents the occurrences of problem behavior, having teachers promote and show pro social skills and behaviors, and monitor student performance and progress everyday. The hopeful outcome that will come from PBIS would be to have teaching and learning environments more structured and engaging, have teachers monitor classroom management and to use disciplinary issues, to improve specialized assistance for the students with cognitive disabilities, and to get the academic maximum academic progression from all students. The continuum of SWPBS is organized by the levels of the needs to students supports based on their behavioral responsiveness to intervention. The continuum of SWPBS is a three-tiered prevention logic that is sectioned off by the levels of support for each student. Depending on the levels of intensity of behavior for each student and what each support that each student requires the students will either be placed in the group of contingency or secondary tier, a highly individualized plan that is the tertiary tier, then the rest of the student's will be placed in the primary tier. If SWPBS is used efficiently it can be effective by promoting benchmarks, classroom checklists, effective classroom plan, classroom management, and effective behavior supports.

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