Pirate Token System In School

The Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC 3) is a comprehensive set of rating scales and forms that help parents, teachers, and clinicians understand the behaviors and emotions of children and adolescents. The BASC 3 Rating Scales measures both adaptive and clinical characteristics in the home and school settings. The Parent Rating Scales and Teacher Rating Scales were completed by Christopher’s mother Mrs. Chavez and Christopher teacher, Ms. Mask. Scores in the table below, are based on a Mean of 50 and an SD of 10. On the Clinical Scales, scores of 60+ indicate difficulties, with those difficulties rising to the level of clinical significance at 70. High scores on these scales are indicative of behaviors that are

Verbal prompts, redirection to remain focused on a given task, minimize outdoor play, reduced iPad games and parent meeting. The results of interventions are diverse. Adriel would respond to previous intervention such as less outdoor play and parent meeting by behaving in class and follow directions for outdoor play for the first two days of the week and then the behavior occurs again. Verbal prompting often works for the first 2 minutes and then the behavior occurs again. The support and one-to-one attention given from the staff during transitions decreased the incidents of noncompliance, pushing and yelling. The staff will model, role play, practice and discuss all these intervention strategies to support Adriel. He will be given attention when he shows replacement behaviors.

The author, a professor of special education, is an expert in the areas of behavior disorders, the assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders and interventions for behavioral disorders. This article provides an objective and useful discussion regarding the relationship between Behavior Intervention Plans and the issues that must be address by school staff when developing and monitoring them. The author also provides readers with specific areas which must be address when developing Behavior Intervention Plans. The information provided may be useful for teachers and school staff.

Among the most widely disseminated procedures derived directly from the principles of applied behavior analysis have been those applied to the analysis and treatment of common childhood problems (e.g., Arndorfer, Allen, & Aljazireh, 1999; Schroeder & Gordon, 1991; Watson & Gresham, 1998). Applied behavior analysts have developed a countless effective interventions for common childhood problems and have repeatedly demonstrated that, even in loosely controlled applied environments, behavior often responds rather quickly to properly managed contingencies. Yet, despite these successes, some have maintained that simply providing repeated demonstrations of the effectiveness of behavioral technology eventually will yield diminishing returns to the field (Kunkel, 1987). The success of an intervention is dependent not only upon its effectiveness but also upon its precise delivery by a clinician and the consistency with which parents and staff implement that treatment with all of its essential

toddlers have tantrums as at this stage they ae striving for independence and become very self centered, seeking for attention most of the time. He will play alongside other children but not with them. At times he will get very frustrated, feeling rel anger. This causes him to feel frightened and often show themselves as temper tantrum which can be worse if children are tired. They can be dealt with by understanding the problem and explaining it so that he will gradually develop the ability to think things through. Another way to help is by being consistent. Dont confuse the child by giving him mixed messages as that will make him more frustrated.The problem should be discussed and a common policy agreed upon. You should also be consistent

This article offers strategies for teachers to use to help their most challenging students with behavioral issues. One of the authors is a child psychiatrist who works with at-risk children and the other is a behavior analyst and special educator. Their approach is based on the premise that educators can only control certain elements in the classroom and their own behavior when it comes to students with challenging behavior. The created the acronym FAIR:”F is for understanding the function of the behavior, A is for accommodations, I is for interaction strategies, and R is for responses” (2). The function of behavior can include escaping from something, obtaining a tangible thing, engaging in sensory activities, and getting attention. These functions are the benefits the student gets from the behavior. The escape motivated behavior happens when a student tries to avoid a “task, demand, situation, or person” (3). The tangible behavior occurs when the student wants to get objects like money or feed or something else they want. Sensory behavior happens when a student tries to get the attention of an adult or classmate. This can occur when the student is “bellergent, screaming, or continually interrupting the teacher” (3). Negative attention can reinforce attention-seeking behavior because it is better than nothing and the student may prefer it because it is more predictable than positive attention. Taking ABC

The article “Reducing Behavior Problems Through Functional Communication Training” by Edward G. Carr and V. Mark Durand addresses the issues of choosing replacement behaviors. The research consisted of two experiments. The first experiment considered when problem behaviors are more likely to take place. The problem behaviors were aggression, tantrums, and self-injury. The results disclosed lack of adult attention and the difficultly of the task both activated behavioral problems. The second experiment used the assessment data collected from the first experiment to select a replacement behavior. The children were taught to verbally seek help, attention, or both from adults. The purpose of the study was to provide more direction when choosing a functionally appropriate replacement behavior in order to decrease inappropriate behaviors.

Token economies have a long history of being identified as evidence based practice (Simonsen, Fairbanks, Briesch, Myers, & Sugai, 2008). Through the use of positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement, token economies function to manage student behaviors. Such economies are widely used in classrooms, especially in special education classrooms that tend to have students with more severe behavior problems.

The token economy is used as a positive reinforcer for the changing of behavior from being negative to positive. If the students exhibit negative classroom behavior, they do not receive a token. In some cases, the reward system can be used in such a way that if a student displays inappropriate behavior, his token(s) can be taken away. In this type of reward system, if a student earns a certain amount of tokens, they can receive a greater reward for the amount of tokens that they have received. This is an effective incentive to encourage the students to act appropriately in the classroom. Examples of inappropriate behavior are as follows: being disruptive, disrespectful of others, talking without raising their hands, getting out of their seats without permission, speaking out of turn, and not paying attention in

In this paper regarding a four-year- old male (Jimmy) throwing tantrums, I will identify his target behavior and provided a detailed description of how antecedent stimuli plus conditions could be potentially important for the assessment of his target behavior. At the same time providing detailed description of discriminative and motivating operations that are applicable in this scenario. On the other end of the spectrum, I will shed light on consequence stimuli and conditions that could be potentially important for assessment of the targeted behavior with the influence of positive, negative, and automatic positive/negative reinforcement. Additionally, I will describe the components of the S-M-I-R model and how they would be

Content area F, Behavior-Change Systems, includes the task list item F-02: Use token economies and other conditioned reinforcement systems (Behavior Analyst Certification Board, 2014). My submission for this content area is the token economy assignment from SPE 565, which demonstrates the implementation of a token economy system. A token economy system uses items which are placed or attached to a board to positively reinforce desired behaviors. While the items used may have little to no value, they can be saved and used to gain access to a more desired item or activity. The intervention works by conducting a preference assessment to identify the items with the strongest reinforcement value. These items can be used as the rewards, or back-up

I choose Anthony because he is always throwing a fit. The behavior would like to change is the fit throwing the reason for wanting to change the behavior is that he screaming like if someone is hurting him. On one of the day I was observing Anthony was throwing a fit to get mom’s attention so that she would go with him to his toy box, instead of saying “mom go” he started screaming form the top of his lungs, the consequences of this fit was that mom put him in a time out. There were no setting events that influence his behavior. The function of the behavior is that Anthony wants to get mom’s attention. My goal statement is was to get to use is words. my first prevention I used was, to give him words to use instead of screaming

Now that data was collected using direct and indirect observations and the hypothesis was test using functional assessments it is time to develop the intervention that will decrease the maladaptive behavior and increase a replacement behavior. The interventions will consist of differential reinforcement and an alternate competing behavior and provide a strong rationale for the chosen interventions. The function of the behavior is escape and a function based intervention will serve the same function. Reinforcements will provide Emilia with relief from her outbursts and enable her continue conversing with her husband without interruption. The intervention is viable because the outbursts will be replaced with a functionally different behavior of asking nicely instead of repetitive outbursts. This will be positively reinforced and the children will stop

My behavior intervention strategy was implemented to try to reduce Billy Joe’s outbursts. These outbursts included behaviors such as loud noises, moving arms around everywhere, and getting out of his seat. Sometimes his outbursts included yelling extremely loud and running out of the room. This behavior could go on for minutes at a time and was quite distracting to other students. This behavior almost always kept Billy Joe from his learning.

Behavior is communication and for young children behavior is used to have their needs met. Howard is a sixth grader that has been referred to the office six times in four month by his first-year teacher Ms. Anderson. Based on Ms. Anderson’s observations Howard exhibits specific weakness in mathematics resulting in incomplete in-class work and homework assignments, and avoidance behaviors when asked to work at the whiteboard. Howard’s outbursts according to Educator Richard Lavoie M.A., M.E. students would rather be bad than dumb. Creating an intervention plan will accurately document the function, and communication behind his behaviors. Howard displays behaviors that may be misinterpreted as misbehaviors in the classroom at times. The purpose of this to create an intervention plan based on Howard’s Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA).