Developing Intervention Plans

There are many factors that can contribute to challenging behaviors in the learning environment including inappropriate expectations from the teacher, lack of responsiveness to the developmental needs of the students, and the learning environment arrangement. These challenging behaviors often indicate extensive issues outside of the classroom. Before teachers can introduce an intervention to solve the problem, they first need to discover the source of the behavior that is impacting the learning and/or the learning environment.

 A Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) is a method followed by the classroom teacher, student, and parents that will determine the underlying cause of the inappropriate behavior so that the intervention is directly related to the problem behavior. The main purpose of the FBA is “to ultimately eliminate a problem behavior and this can only be done by addressing what is causing it to occur” (Hamlett, 2018, p. 1)
. A behavior plan is only effective when it is developed carefully using the gathered data that is made for eliminating that specific behavior for that individual. All children have unique learning and behavior needs so their interventions must also reflect these distinct qualities. 

References

Hamlett, T. (2018). Module 5: Consistency in Classroom Management and Outcomes Evaluation: Part 1 Transcript: Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) [Lecture notes]. Retrieved from http://ace.edu