Riley Turgeon

KIN 526
Behavior Management Website
October 19, 2020

Intervention Central

Purpose: The purpose of this website is to provide teachers, schools, and districts with free

tools and resources for Response to Intervention (RTI). The site provides academic and behavior

intervention resources to help struggling students of all ages in every school setting, including

the classroom, hallways, and playgrounds.

Content: There are many tools that this site provides to aide in Response to Intervention. Their

two intervention categories that they address are academic interventions and behavioral

interventions; however, I am only going to focus on the behavior interventions on this site. After

clicking on the Behavior Interventions tab at the top of the home page, you are taken to a page

that has dozens of resources and tools to make your job easier when it comes to managing your

students’ behaviors. There are eleven different categories of behavior management tools, which

are listed in the following order: defusing/de-escalation, behavior intervention apps,

communication tools, Pre-K through Gr 2, self-management, special needs, rewards, challenging

students, motivation, schoolwide/classroom management, and bully prevention. Within each

category are links to articles, handouts, videos, and applications that were made to help make

behavior management easier for all teachers.

Descriptive Information: As I mentioned above, although Intervention Central has academic

and behavioral intervention tools, I am only going to focus on the behavioral intervention tools.

On the behavior interventions page, there are more resources available than I am able to go over,

so I will just highlight some of the tools that I thought were most helpful and applicable to the

Physical Education setting. One section I really liked was Behavior Intervention Apps. The first
tool in that section is the Behavior Intervention Planner app. This app provides teachers,

administrators, and other school personnel with a multitude of strategies to improve their

students’ behaviors and to create personalized behavior management plans for students

individually or in a group setting. Once your unique behavior management plan is made, you can

download it as a PDF, email it to colleagues/parents, and save it to use again later. Another app I

really like is the BM report card maker. This is very similar to the BI planner app in that you can

customize your own behavior report cards for each student based on a database of dozens of

prewritten goals statements. You can pick and choose which behavior goals you want your

students to work towards, how you want to grade/assess that behavior, and then download it as a

PDF to be used or emailed to parents/colleagues.

Another tool I really like is the Learning Disability Accommodation Finder, which is a

free database of accommodation ideas to help your students be successful in meeting standards

while also holding those students to the same expectations as their peers. These accommodations

are organized into six different categories: communication, instruction, motivation, self-

management, and task. In these categories, teachers can pick and choose from over 60 strategies

to make a unique checklist of accommodations that you can use for students. Another tool I

really like is the rewards section, which provides you with age appropriate ideas for positive

consequences and rewards you can implement into your behavior management system. Finally,

there are also a variety of videos available that give step by step explanations of how to use

different behavior management techniques such as praise/positive feedback, de-escalation

tactics, and how to use rubrics/checklists to gather data.

Application to Behavior Management in Physical Activity: I think that the tools that

Intervention Central provide on their site are very applicable to physical education settings for a
couple of reasons. First, the ability to quickly and efficiently make behavior management plans,

checklists/rubrics, and report cards with easy-to-use premade statements and templates is very

helpful to Physical Education teachers, specifically APE teachers. There are a variety of behavior

issues that APE teachers face on a daily basis, and having the ability to personalize behavior

intervention plans for each student with ease saves so much time for teachers. Also, the

Accommodation Finder is extremely useful for APE teachers because it provides

accommodation ideas for students with all types of disabilities, addressing communication,

environment, motivation, instruction, and more. Another section that I really like that is useful in

physical education settings is the self-management section. Many times in physical education

classes, students are expected to self-manage due to large class sizes. Also, there are more

opportunities for students to be unsupervised in the PE setting, such as in the locker room, which

means that students must be able to self-manage their behavior. Overall, behavior management is

very important in Physical Education due to the dynamic and fluid class settings, and

Intervention Central provides so many great and free tools to help master behavior management

in your classes.

Summary: Overall, I really like this website and definitely plan on using it when making my

behavior management plans. The only concern I have with this site is that it is not visually

appealing and sometimes hard to find things because there is so much information on each page.

However, once you use it enough it’s easy to find your way around the site. Also, you can make

an account for free, which allows you to save behavior management plans that you have made as

PDFs for later use.

 Reference

“Response To Intervention – RTI Resources.” Response to Intervention | RTI | RTI Resources |

Intervention Central, www.interventioncentral.org/home.