The most significant being how to create a Behavior Support Plan. I will definitely use something very similar to this in my future classroom, because it makes sense, it is pretty simple to follow, and it helps a teacher to determine the exact cause of the behavior and what encourages the behavior to continue. Many times, I think that determining exactly what encourages the continuation of the unwanted behavior is the most challenging part, because usually when a child misbehaves, a teacher will correct their behavior right away and will not take time to consider whether how they are correcting the behavior is actually making it worse. I actually witnessed a situation very similarly to this at the Mom2Mom group that I work at. Last week, one of the little boys kept pushing other children. At first one of the helpers had him sit in time out, but it was soon evident that time out was not correcting the behavior, but almost making it worse. Finally, the helper realized that the behavior was increasing, so she stopped sitting him in time out and instead asked him why he was pushing the other children. To find out, one of the little boys had taken his toy, so he kept pushing him down so that he could get his toy back. Even though this situation happened between two four year olds, I think that the child who was pushing the
The most significant being how to create a Behavior Support Plan. I will definitely use something very similar to this in my future classroom, because it makes sense, it is pretty simple to follow, and it helps a teacher to determine the exact cause of the behavior and what encourages the behavior to continue. Many times, I think that determining exactly what encourages the continuation of the unwanted behavior is the most challenging part, because usually when a child misbehaves, a teacher will correct their behavior right away and will not take time to consider whether how they are correcting the behavior is actually making it worse. I actually witnessed a situation very similarly to this at the Mom2Mom group that I work at. Last week, one of the little boys kept pushing other children. At first one of the helpers had him sit in time out, but it was soon evident that time out was not correcting the behavior, but almost making it worse. Finally, the helper realized that the behavior was increasing, so she stopped sitting him in time out and instead asked him why he was pushing the other children. To find out, one of the little boys had taken his toy, so he kept pushing him down so that he could get his toy back. Even though this situation happened between two four year olds, I think that the child who was pushing the