Need Established

Objectives

   1) Learners will be able to describe scenarios which demonstrate a need for a classroom behavior management plan.
   2) Learners will be able to demonstrate the beneficial results of using a behavior management plan.

Informational Resources

   Research has shown that consistent use of a classroom behavior management plan may result in:
       a) Decreased teacher stress
       b) Increased student participation
       c) Increased student learning
       d) Decreased harmful or distracting behaviors in the classroom
       e) Increased social interaction skills among students
       f) Increased student ability to self-regulate behavior
   Often times, there are extreme behaviors that demonstrate a need for a teacher to implement a behavior management 
   plan. However, beginning the year with established expectations will result in greater success over the academic year. 
   Students who have diagnosed emotional/behavioral disorders demonstrate a teacher's greatest need for a plan. When there
   are situations of frequent classroom disruption, issues with bullying, a lack of student participation and a need for
   positive behaviors, it can be concluded that a behavior management plan would be beneficial.

  Clear demonstration of students recognizing the need for their behaviors to be monitored can be observed in File:Game.pdf article. 
    * Here is the citation if the link does not work: Sebag, R. (2010). Behavior management through self-advocacy: A strategy 
      for secondary students with learning disabilities. Teaching Exceptional Children, 42(6), 22-29. 
   Here, secondary students become their own self-advocates for programs to assist with their behaviors.

Here is the citation for another article that demonstrates strategies that can be used to decrease student dependency on teachers for behavior management and increase independence: Cuenca-Sanchez, Y., Mastropieri, M., Scruggs, T., & Kidd, J. (2012). Teaching students with emotional and behavioral disorders to self-advocate through persuasive writing. Exceptionality, 20(2), 71-93.

Discussion

   Use the discussion page to explain times when you have found the need to implement a classroom behavior management 
   plan. What benefits have you seen in your own classrooms once a plan has been implemented?

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