Positive Behavior Support Teacher Interview

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Positive Behavior Support Teacher Interview Shabena Din Grand Canyon University: SPE 522 May 8, 2013 Positive Behavior Support Teacher Interview With first look, I thought that this interview would be rather simple, with the fact I did not need to be pressure concerning who to interview. I work in a school; consequently I thought I would objectively interview the English as a Second Language teacher that I had worked with in my school and then be finished with the assignment. Then a few days later, I figured that I am familiar with most of what the ESL teacher would answer in reply to my questions. For this reason I appropriated to take this assignment a slight farther and make a determination to interview a first grade special…show more content…
Watkins about the type of events that can trigger her student’s behaviors. I asked her to distinguish between distant setting events and antecedents if she could. Her first response was that distinguishing between the two types of events was quite easy. Ms. Rodgers then refers back to her notion of most of her students living at or below the poverty line. She says her two classified students are very open about their home life, which makes it easy for her to recognize distant setting events and antecedents or present setting events. She said she does not really want to discuss any specific events for classified reasons, but she says that both of her students are very affected by distant setting events and that she and her staff usually spend a great deal of time in the morning trying to calm her students down and make them feel more comfortable. She also mentions that things like the weather can also trigger behaviors. As for antecedents within the classroom, Ms. Watkins says that while she and her staff do their best to prevent these types of situations, there will always be something unaccounted for that can trigger a behavior. She says that when dealing with such sensitive children, it is extremely, and she emphasized extremely important to be aware of the child’s surroundings at all times in order to provide them with the most safe and successful learning environment. Then Ms. Watkins proceeds to mention that her two students sometimes take…show more content…
Watkins mentioned how she and her professional staff developed a plan and take provisions to handle the challenges they encounter. When I asked her to further touch on this topic, Ms. Rodgers handed me an outline of her classroom rules and reward program. She said that her staff is a major factor in enforcing these rules. She has two in class support specialists which I will ask her about further later in the interview. Ms. Rodgers mentions that the class rules and reward program play a major part in trying to prevent behaviors. Her reward program provides points for students for achieving certain academic goals, behavioral goals and classroom goals as a community. She has set forth and feeling of community in her classroom, using the student’s desks as “houses” and with students sitting close to one another, her class is run like a neighborhood. She uses things like being nice to your neighbor and “doing things for the community” as positive behavior reinforcement. She shared with me an example that one of her classified students did in order to receive reward points. One of her students went around and offered to clean off everyone’s desk following an activity in which the class used watercolor paints. She said not only were all of her students happy, but the special needs student felt a level of responsibility unlike no other and was excited to receive his reward points. Once a student reaches the target point total, they are able to select a
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