Archive for the ‘Behavior’ Category

Life Space Crisis Intervention

Life Space Crisis Intervention
Do you know about Life Space Crisis Intervention or LSCI? It is a strategy that professionals who work with students can use crisis situations to help them learn life-skills.  In other words – how educators can use crisis situations to further the relationship they have with the student and to...
February 20th, 2011 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Crisis Management

Crisis Management
I hate to bring up Crisis plans but it is a fact of life with some of our students. You know that I have worked in what we call psycho-educational centers for students with severe behaviors. We had daily crises and these involved our students on the spectrum. A crisis could involve running out of the...
September 16th, 2009 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Moods, Magnets and Emotions

Moods, Magnets and Emotions
Here is a really cool site that has MoodMagnets that are more age appropriate for the older students. You know that it is recommended you use age appropriate materials for your older students and sometimes it is very difficult to match age appropriate materials to the student’s lowered developmental...
May 6th, 2009 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Behavior or Behaviour

Behavior or Behaviour
Doesn’t matter how we spell it – all teachers struggle with helping students make behavior change. This is true for our students with autism. There are several questions that I am asked about behavior and autism, especially from regular education teachers.  So allow me do a answer a few...
April 4th, 2009 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Expectations for the Classroom

Expectations for the Classroom
Go outside your classroom door and walk in. Now imagine yourself as a student with autism. You are walking into a classroom and are not quite sure what the expectations are in the room. Now walk outside into the hallway. Aren’t there some behavior expectations that you have in the classroom that...
September 16th, 2008 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Proactive Behavior Monitoring

Proactive Behavior Monitoring
When you think about student behavior and creating a program within your classroom that would promote Behavior Change and not Behavior Management (remember we want to Change behavior and not just manage it) – you need to think about putting into place a way that the students can monitor their own...
September 13th, 2008 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Behavior Expectations

Behavior Expectations
Classroom Rules. I can tell you that I really do not like that phrase. Rules suggests conrol – power – domination.  Instead of the word “rules” why don’t we use the phrase “behavioral expectations”. The word “expectations” is more positive in...
September 7th, 2008 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

Smiley Stickers

Smiley Stickers
Here is an easy way to make stickers and coordinate your token economy. “Smiley” is a socially appropriate sticker or token to use with both elementary and intermediate students, because “smiley” is cool. Right click on the photos – save it to your pictures and print....
August 15th, 2008 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More

New Way to Transition

New Way to Transition
Tired of the X’s on the floor to mark where the student’s stand in line? Try combining an academic task with a transition task. This elementary classroom in Georgia uses large money replicas as a way to have the students practice: personal space, school behavior (lining up in a line), waiting...
August 6th, 2008 | Behavior, Teachers | Read More