Publisher's Synopsis
Alphabet Soup: This book is a stand-alone text or can be used in conjunction with the seminar from Teacheropedia by the same title. Audience: All Staff Who Work with Students Pre-K through Twelfth Grade This text will focus on the variety of behaviors that show up in the classroom when teaching 3-19-year-old students. The curriculum demands of pre-k through twelfth grade require students to engage in less movement which can cause impulsiveness. Many of the students have behaviors that are disruptive to the learning of the class. This text will go through behavior by behavior and show real-life student behaviors and the interventions that ameliorated those behaviors. Readers will learn the triggers for targeted behaviors and ways to proactively revise the environment to set the students up for success. Readers will also learn replacement behavior strategies for the behaviors and simple ways to infuse those into the curriculum. Finally, readers will learn how to reframe their own response, so they are feeding the replacement behavior and extinguishing the targeted behavior. Dr. Riffel and Dr. Eggleston will share scenarios from real classrooms they have worked with in the past and the interventions that worked to dissipate the behaviors. Their strategies are proactive and easy to implement the next day. Readers will find solutions for the behaviors they find troublesome in the classroom. We will focus on the functions of behavior such as trying to gain attention, gain access to preferred activities or items, gain access to sensory input, escape work, escape attention, escape sensory overload, and behaviors that occur due to emotional or physical pain. Using numerous examples, readers will learn a variety of strategies that worked with similar triggers, targets, and impacts.
