Training of Grades 2 and 8

Receiving Teachers on
SPED Content and
Pedagogy
May 21-24, 2019
Cebu Business Hotel
Behavior Management of
Learners with Disability
in the Regular
Classrooms
AS A TEACHER, DO YOU AIM TO:
 Create a positive and safe environment for
learning?
 Promote a culture based on achievement,
care and support?
 Enable learners to work in an atmosphere
of security, respect and trust?
 Have an ordered, purposeful atmosphere in
all learning contexts?
 Encourage learners to take responsibility
for their actions?
UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR:

Every behavior has a function

 -Function
must be determined
 -Four basic functions: attention
escape
tangible
 ABC data can often show patterns in
behavior
After function is determined, an appropriate
intervention can be put in place

Proactive Manipulating antecedent

-

events (the environment) to make

negative behavior less likely to occur

-For attention seeking behaviors:

*Catch the learner being good!
*Provide reinforcement for
desirable behavior
After function is determined, an appropriate
intervention can be put in place
Proactive -

-For escape behaviors:

*Make tasks more fun to decrease
motivation to escape
*Teach appropriate language to ask for
a break
*Schedule regular breaks
*First/Then chart or picture schedule
-For behavior that functions to access tangibles:
*Provide access to tangible reinforcement for
desirable behaviors
*Use a first/then chart

-For behaviors that serve a self-stimulatory function:

*Make sure the learner is constantly engaged
in activities
*Sensory diet
Reactive
-For attention seeking behaviors:
*Provide NO attention
*Turn away
*Neutral expression
*Monotone voice
*Replace with appropriate language if
possible
For behaviors that function as access to
-

tangibles:

*Do NOT provide tangible items after the

inappropriate behavior
*Use behavioral momentum
*Replace with appropriate language
 -
For behaviors that serve a self-stimulatory
-

function:
*Replace the behavior with something
more appropriate
*Redirect to a different, appropriate
activity
 Managing Classroom Behavior
 Create an effective learning
environment
 Promote productivity within the
classroom
 Identify ways to solve classroom
management issues and control problem
situations
 Communicate with parents and learners
Managing Classroom Behavior
Help learners assume responsibility
for their behavior
Enhance teaching and decrease
disruptive behavior
Identify common misbehaviors
Build relationships with learners
Create An Effective Learning Environment

 Organize, visually stimulating room

arrangement that maximizes space
 Arrange furniture to allow quick access to
learners
 Reduce noise to keep learning at an
optimal level
 Have privacy dividers or study carrels
available when needed
Create An Effective Learning Environment

Use visual or auditory prompts to

signal change in activity
Play a variety of music to calm, relax,
or stimulate thinking
Be responsive to physical needs (e.g.
food, water, bathroom, exercise)
Create An Effective Learning Environment

Provide both soft and bright light areas

in classrooms
Provide a Suggestion Box where
learners offer input on how to make
the class more interesting and
meaningful
Set room temperature at a comfortable
level
Improved Behavior Application
-Education
-Sports
-Daily Life
-Health
-Family relationship
Issues and Challenges
-Target behavior
-Immediacy
-Continuity
-Inconsistent implementation
Apply
-Important to change
-Socially relevant
-Age appropriate
-Prerequisites met
General Reinforcers for Positive Behaviors
Rules of Reinforcement:

-Rule Number 1: Catch the

individual/person being good
-Rule Number 2: Vary your reinforcement
General Reinforcers for Positive Behaviors
Rules of Reinforcement:

-Rule Number 3: Reinforcement must be

contingent on behavior
-Rule Number 4: Reinforcement must be
delivered immediately after
the desired behavior
General Reinforcers for Positive Behaviors
Rules of Reinforcement:
-RuleNumber 5: The size or amount of
reinforcement must be
appropriate
-Rule Number 6: The reinforcement must be
motivating for the learner
-
General Reinforcers for Positive Behaviors
Rules of Reinforcement:

-Rule Number 7: The value of a reinforcer

-

depends on competing
reinforcers that are
available for other
behaviors.
 Behavior Management

Utilizing Behavior-management Strategies

--> Every teacher must use

appropriate behavior-
management strategies to
address specific behavior-
social concerns.
 “Negative Behavior
cannot be expected to
simply stop. It needs
to be replaced with
positive
appropriate/behavior.
”
 THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING ! !

NANCY C. PASCUAL
Supervising Education Program Specialist
Bureau of Learning Delivery-Student Inclusion Division
Department of Education