Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, SEBMH
Presenter(s): Beth Provis, Graduate Student
Description: While many children come to school with skills to learn, self-regulate, and interact with others, other children may not. When students struggle with these and other skills that seem to come naturally to their peers, they may exhibit challenging behaviors. This may impede learning and social interaction that is integral to a child’s growth that occurs at school. This presentation will provide essential information to teachers for implementing evidence-based practices in their classrooms to support all their students, especially those with challenging behavior. The strategies presented are rooted in applied behavior analysis (ABA) in the school context. It will briefly review challenging behavior, its prevalence, and its impact on students and educators. It will also provide an overview of why ABA is an essential element of applying behavioral interventions in school. Next, the presentation will provide specific strategies for managing challenging behavior in the classroom. Those covered will include antecedent-based strategies, such as prevention and prompting, and consequence-based strategies like reinforcement. Following a presentation of each strategy, attendees will be asked to either discuss with each other or independently brainstorm how they would handle a situation with a student exhibiting challenging behavior in their classroom. A vignette will be presented to the audience as this hypothetical situation and used for each strategy throughout the presentation.
Learning Goals: By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to: 1) Describe why it is essential to address challenging behavior for students, their peers, and their environment. 2) Identify strategies that can be utilized to address students’ challenging behavior. 3) Plan a course of action based on the strategies discussed that can be taken to best support a student with challenging behavior.
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