Developing & Implementing Behavior Tracking Plans

Parking lot activity

• Move around the room
• Discuss spaces with different partners
• Get initials of your discussion partner in the box
• Move on until time is called

Chart it!

• Put a green dot in the square that shows your level of comfort with each of the session goals
• Ready? Go!!

session Goals:

• Develop a behavior tracking form using formal and informal assessments
• Analyze collected behavioral data
• Use the data to guide instructional strategies, practices and program development
• Appropriately modify tracking form to move the student toward the goal of self-regulation

Time to Travel!

How are we going to handle this?

• Help your partner define your pet peeve behavior in clear terms
• Write a clear goal for your partner's spouse or child to help your partner out
• Design a behavior tracking form to gather data on progress

Why a behavior tracking form?

• Simple and highly effective data collection tool
• Provides data for PLAAFP baselines and progress monitoring for Annual Goals
• Promotes executive functioning skills, personal awareness and self-monitoring for student

And there's more!!

• Sets up communication with teachers and reminders of what the student is working on
• Creates a platform for discussion with parents

One of the most important reasons:

• CREATES CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION AND TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE STUDENT
• *Basis for feedback & growth opportunity *Platform for praise *Modeled problem solving opportunity *Creates teachable moments (self-regulation, social skills, communication, etc.)

Here is one of the first students you will see on the first day of school.....Can you find him in this video?

Some behavior data form ideas

KEY POINTS:
*Although the format may be the same, it is individualized by student need. Why 5 items or less?

*Forms are simple to use, but behaviors are specifically defined

*A criteria for success is created so they know if they have met their goal for the day

*Rewards can be connected to the sheet. Extrinsic are motivators for a short time. Praise and attention work when moving towards self-regulation

*Forms from a book are a good place to START

Meet Bart, your student!

The Process

• list behaviors that are holding Bart back academically and socially
• prioritize those behaviors
• narrow the behaviors to no more than 5, including 1 to build success
• decide what tool you are going to use to clearly define the behavior and track progress on your goal
• make a rough draft of your data form

A couple things to remember:

• You can use the skeleton of an already created form. It isn’t about the form, it’s about the content!!
• You can customize your tracking system based on student age, needs (smiley faces, stars, form title, etc.)

How can you personalize your form?

• Bart's Plan of Awesomeness
• The Lego Plan
• The possibilities are endless!

Summer's Over...time to work!

• Why collect data if you aren't going to use it?!
• Time to analyze the information you have gathered on Bart now that you have been teaching him for a quarter
• Break the seal on your folder

Some things to Consider:

• What patterns do you see?
• Possible reasons for the patterns?
• What adjustments need to be made to the behavior tracking sheet?
• What instruction does student need?
• Is there any follow-up, communication or changes

What would you do next?

Fade it!

Take aways

• These are not plans ABOUT the student, these are plans for/with the student
• If you do not make behavior tracking important, it will not be
• The ultimate purpose is to support the student in self-monitoring and self-regulating behaviors

Post Assessment
Put a red dot at your level of comfort on the goal chart

Ready? Go!

Thank you for coming!

Michelle Fitchett-Pirker
mpirker90@gmail.com
Jenifer Cline
jenifer_cline@gfps.k12.mt.us