Bethel University Arkansas Behavior Support Specialist Discussion Paper
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Asynchronous Materials and Tasks Please complete this module for a P.E Teacher grades 7th-12th.
Complete the following prior to the Synchronous Module.
- Visit the Arkansas Behavior Support Specialists resource website: ARBSS.org.
- Look at the various courses and supports.
- Pay particular attention to the short videos located at this link: Behavior Breaks
- Which of these videos would you choose to watch now that the school year has started and you have a more informed understanding of the behavior needs of your students?
- Visit The Teacher Toolkit website: http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/
- Click on the “Tools” tab at the top of the page.
- Then click on “Classroom Management” on the left hand side of the page.
- Which of these tools can you utilize in your classroom to enhance your management?
- Read “The Key to Classroom Management” (https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/the-key-to-classroom-management or PDF).
- What is the key to classroom management? How can it be achieved?
Synchronous Materials and Tasks [Anticipated Time: 3 hours]
- Bring your current classroom management plan with you to the synchronous session.
- Slides
- How Proactive Are You Currently?
- Behavior and Intervention Guidelines
- 20 Tips for Developing Positive Relationships with Parents
Module Assignment [Anticipated Time: 1.5 to 2 hours]
- Upload a plan for ensuring that your classroom is coherent, continuous, and consistent. Be sure that your plan includes details that can be directly supported by the asynchronous and synchronous materials/resources.
- Your plan must include specific methods for maintaining a coherent, continuous, and consistent classroom environment. Think about how:
- you will begin/continue to enforce rules, consequences, and rewards
- effective your current procedures are––do you need to adjust any of them?
- you cultivate rapport with each student
- you communicate with parents
- you engage students in learning
- Your plan must include at least three specific goals that you have set, how you will measure those goals, and why you set that goal. See the example below.
- Your plan must include specific methods for maintaining a coherent, continuous, and consistent classroom environment. Think about how:
Goal |
Measurement |
Reasoning |
Example: Make at least one positive parent contact each school day––this can be through a phone call, email, text, or note home. |
Example: On my parent contact log, I will put a heart next to each positive contact that I make. |
Example: I have noticed that each time I contact a parent they expect for it to be a negative comment. Additionally, I want to work on building a partnership with parents––which must include positive and negative contact. |