Jim Wright: Managing Challenging Classroom Behaviors: A Toolkit for Mental Health Professionals

Here are resources from Jim Wright's workshop on behavior management:

Here are additional resources shared at the training:

 

1. Behavior Management: Introduction. What is RTI-Behavior?

2. Big Ideas in Behavior Management. This handful of powerful concepts can lay the groundwork for teacher success in managing challenging behaviors.

3. Class-Wide Behavior Management. The well-managed classroom emphasizes strong instruction, clear behavioral expectations, and positive student interaction.

4. The Inattentive/Anxious/Non-Compliant Student. While every student has unique needs, teachers who understand the profile of common behavior disorders can be better prepared to support these students.

5. Preventing Problem Behaviors. These proactive intervention ideas are designed to prevent challenging behaviors—a win-win for teacher and student.

6. Reinforcing Appropriate Behaviors. Good behavior management locks in desired student behaviors by consistently recognizing and reinforcing them.

7. Managing Problem Behaviors. When problems occur, the teacher can use these strategies to minimize attention while redirecting the student to task.

8. Behavior Plans: How to Build One. Teachers can use this template to create a classroom behavior plan that is both simple and comprehensive in scope.

9. Behavior Plans: Show Me the Data. Collecting classroom data to regularly monitor student behavior can be the greatest hurdle to a successful intervention plan. Behavior report cards and checklists are two feasible ‘go-to’ methods to track almost any classroom behavior.

10. Managing Students in Crisis. The Aggression Cycle is a tool that demonstrates how student anger escalates through predictable stages and how teachers should respond to each stage.

 

 

How to individualize instruction. What are ideas to differentiate/scaffold instruction for academic success?

 

Here are tools for determining/adjusting level of text difficulty: