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
