All Ours: Inclusion Symposium

DESCRIPTION:
Behavioral trackers are utilized across school district programs as a way to measure student behavior across a child’s school day. Students carry their trackers and present them to their teachers at the end of a class period as a way for teachers to rate student behavior with the use of a single smiley/frowning face or +/- sign. Behavior trackers can increase student anxiety and lead challenging behaviors when students feel like they have “failed” or “not made the mark.” This training will focus on how to reframe the daily behavior tracker to focus on the success of the student while teaching the concept of “repair,” the idea that if I did not do well during my last class, I have the opportunity to “repair” the situation by making changes to my behavior in the next class. Learning how to “repair” behavioral mistakes is the life skill we want to teach and reinforce which can lead to increased behavioral success across environments

OBJECTIVES:
1. Participants will gain an understanding of how to create clear behavioral targets.
2. Participants will learn the value of positive reinforcement while discussing the ramification of the “sad face” or “minus” on student behavior and connections with parents/caregivers.
3. Participants will learn how to create a tracker system that better reflects student success with the built in opportunity to recover points that may have been missed in a previous class period.
4. Participants will learn strategies to reconnect with parents who have “stopped answering the phone” due to their student’s ongoing challenging behaviors