preview

Worksheet 1D Intensity IV Behavior Analysis

Decent Essays

Module Three Application
Jennifer Rosado
American College of Education: EL5033 Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

Module Three Application
Worksheet 1D – Intensity IV Behaviors
Worksheet 1D – Intensity IV Behaviors
Grade Level: K-12
District-Identified Intensity IV Behaviors Administrative Responses
Specified in the District Code of Conduct
Alcohol Confiscation of Inappropriate Item
Long-term Out-of-School Suspension 6-10 days
Refer to Law Enforcement
Arson Financial Restitution
Long-term Out-of-School Suspension 6-10 days
Recommendation for Expulsion
Refer to Law Enforcement
Assault Long-term Out-of-School Suspension 6-10 days
Recommendation for Expulsion
Battery Long-term Out-of-School Suspension 6-10 days …show more content…

A school’s Behavior Matrix can create a school climate that reinforces good behavior, a positive and safe environment, encourages responsibility of actions, builds positive relationships, ensues high expectations, and builds community (Muscott, Mann & LeBrun, 2008). The consistency of responses, consequences, and rewards will create an atmosphere that promotes positive behavior and discourages negative behaviors. The strategies set forth by the Behavioral Matrix are set up for the entire school population focusing on the students that do not necessarily have behavioral issues. It is mainly for the purpose of increasing student achievement, discourage problematic behaviors, and increase positive interactions throughout the school environment (Bradshaw & Pas, 2011). Therefore, the goal of a Behavioral Matrix is in fact to strengthen positive behaviors that are already in place and give a consistent disciplinary action guideline to move those individual that commit negative infractions towards positive direction. Positive Behavior Support systems are set up to acknowledge the good that students accomplish, and does not allow infractions to define who they are and allows for them to reinstatement the good …show more content…

P., & Pas, E. T. (2011). A Statewide Scale Up of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: A Description of the Development of Systems of Support and Analysis of Adoption and Implementation. In School Psychology Review (pp. 530-548). National Association of School Psychologists.

McKevitt, B. C., & Braaksma, A. D. (2008). Best practices in developing a positive behavior support system at the school level. In A. Thomas & J. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology (5th ed., pp. 735–747). Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.

Muscott, H. S., Mann, E. L., & LeBrun, M. R. (2008). Positive behavioral interventions and supports in New Hampshire: Effects of large-scale implementation of schoolwide positive behavior support on student discipline and academic achievement. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 10(3), 190-205. Retrieved from

Get Access