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Student's Initials : N.M
Age : 8
Grade: 2
Gender : F
Target behavior to be changed: out of seat
Description : N.M is very smart active girl. She likes to move a lot
during the lesson . She is a kinesthetic learner. She has developed a habit
of leaving her seat and rooming around during the written assignments. I
will use the following behavior plan to motivate her to change her
behavior .
Start Date for Intervention :
15/4/2009 ( end of week 3 (
Intervention :
The plan is Adapted from book of Teacher 's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management
page 506/plan D.
The following steps were considered the basic behavior management
plan:
1. Talk with the whole class about what my expectations are while doing
a written work (end of week 3).
2. Count and draw a tally which will show me the girl's incidents when
being out of seat (during the end of week 2 and the beginning of week 3).
3. Respond consistently to the inappropriate behavior :
a. I will sit with the girl and talk about what I expect from her to do while
doing written work .(end of week 3 )
b. The girl and I will decide on private signal to tell her that she has to go
back to her seat.(end of week 3 ) .
4. Develop a plan to reinforce the appropriate behavior :
a. Praise her in front of all class for sitting on her seat .
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b. I will sit with her and create a list of rewards she can earn with the
appropriate behavior .
c. I will write on cards rewards she likes to earn. Then ,I will price each
reward with certain number of coins .
N.M Will start her day with certain number of coins in a jar .Whenever ,
I give her the signal I will remove a coin from a jar. At the end of the day
she will count the coins and see what reward she can earn.
5. Lastly, I will implement a consequence of time owned. When the girl
will loose all the tickets I will check the time between giving her the
signal and being back to her seat . Then I will detect that time from her
break .e.g. if she takes 3 minutes to sit back then she will loose 3 minutes
from next recess or in the afternoon .
Results of Intervention:
- I have started my plan with talking with the whole class. I explained for
them how I expected them to behave during a written assignments .
Moreover , I model how they should behave .
- I counted how many times N.M was out of her seat during week 2 and
the beginning of week 3 .
- Towards the end of week 3 I talked with N.M .We agreed on a private
signal that tells her she needs to go back to her seat .
- I have started my intervention on the beginning of week 4 .
-Ask positive reinforcement I used praising the girl whenever she sits on
her chair .
- I was consistent , and I used the private signal whenever she was out of
her seat .Giving a private signal to N.M helped a lot and she really felt
special to the teacher and she started to respond .
- I started with N.M and asked her what are her favorite rewards she likes
to earn . We wrote those rewards down and then priced them with number
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of coins .I explained for her how she will start her day with 15 coins and
that whenever I give her the sign I will remove a coin.
- I started the plan and I asked her to count the coins at the end of the day
and then see what prize she will earn.
- N.M responds to the plan and she likes the idea of the jar and the
rewards . She tried her best to earn the biggest reward by sitting nicely on
her seat while doing the written assignments .The change of the behavior
can be seen in the chart . I counted the undesired behavior during week 4
and I conclude a decrease in the number.
- since the plan went well and the girl start to respond ,I will not apply
the last step in it (5)which is time owed out .
- I am satisfied with this plan . I think it works well. I didn't have a
chance to apply it on week 5 since the students went for vacation . I will
go on and continue with it throughout week 6 to achieve my goal .
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Table results – Week (2/3/4/5 ) data of Intervention
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