EDSE 410 - Behavior Management for Students with Disabilities

• Recall applicable laws, rules and regulations, and procedural safeguards regarding the planning and implementation of management of student behaviors.
• Describe ethical considerations inherent in classroom behavior management.
• Describe how teacher attitudes and behaviors positively or negatively influence student behavior and how the teacher serves as a role model for appropriate behavior.
• Choose from a variety of techniques for graphing to meet formative evaluation goals and implement this graphing technique as a way to share collected data.
• Analyze behavior and make appropriate educational decisions from charted data.
• Develop and implement a behavior management plan, implementing the least intensive intervention consistent with the needs of the exceptional individual, that elicits and maintains administrative, basic education teacher, and parental support.
• Select data collection systems appropriate to the classroom.
• Select and use, according to specific criteria, research based best practices for effective behavior management of teaching and learning appropriate for particular service delivery models and student characteristics.
• Select instructional strategies related to social skills for changing behaviors that (a) are appropriate to the desired behavior change and characteristics of the population, and (b) facilitate increased student self-awareness, self-control, self-reliance, and self-esteem.
• Describe appropriate strategies for crisis prevention/intervention.