Behavior Intervention Plans: Developing a Competing Pathway

1. Behavior Intervention Plans:Developing a Competing Pathway

2. Handouts • Behavior Intervention Plan Template • FBA/BIP Evaluation Rubric • Teaching Desired Long-Term Replacement Behavior Handout • Elementary Expectations Matrix

3. Expectations Be Respectful • Be an active listener • Use notes for side bar conversations Be Responsible • Silence cell phones—reply appropriately • Complete work within activities Bea Problem Solver • Ask questions as needed to clarify concepts or directions

4. Learner Outcomes • Identify defining features of behavior intervention planning from current best practice. • Work with sample scenarios to develop a competing behavior pathway 3

5. Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) • A BIP defines how an educational setting will be changed to improve the behavioral success of the student. • The BIP describes how the environment will be changed to prevent occurrences of problem behavior. • The BIP describes the teaching that will occur to give the student alternative ways of behaving. • The BIP describes the consequences that will be provided to (a) reinforce/encourage positive behavior, (b) limit inadvertent reward of problem behavior and discourage problem behavior.

6. Intervention Planning Setting event Antecedent Behavior Consequence Function: Access adult attention Teacher sits back down and continues to play Screams “no” and hits teacher Hungry Playing with teacher, & teacher gets up to leave Teach/ Replace: Teach a functionally equivalent replacement behavior Prevent: Reduce the likelihood of the problem behavior Neutralize or minimize the effects of setting events and antecedents to prevent the need for using the problem behavior Reinforce: Make replacement behavior access function

7. Elements of a BIP • Teaching Strategies • Setting Event Strategies • Antecedent Strategies • Consequence Strategies • Safety Strategies • Implementation Plan • Monitoring Strategies • Generalization & Maintenance Strategies *BehaviorIntervention Plan Template

8. High Quality FBA & BIP How will your team insure that you develop high quality behavior intervention plans with fidelity? FBA/BIP Evaluation Rubric *FBA/BIP Evaluation Rubric

9. Learner Outcomes • Identify defining features of behavior intervention planning from current best practice. • Work with sample scenarios to develop a competing behavior pathway 3

10. Developing a Competing Behavior Pathway • The Competing Behavior Pathway model is used to create a link between the functional behavior assessment and the behavior intervention plan.  

11. Competing Behavior Pathway

12. Developing A Competing Behavior Pathway Step 1 • The team copies the functional assessment summary statement into the behavior pathway diagram.

13. Developing a Competing Behavior Pathway

14. Identify Desired Replacement Behaviors Step 2: Identify Desired Replacement Behavior • What do you want the student to do instead of engaging in the problem behavior? • Desired behavior (long-term replacement behavior) • What skill(s) does the student need to learn to replace or meet the same function as the student’s target behavior and improve ability to be successful? • The desired replacement behavior should be linked to schoolwide expectations.

15. Desired Replacement Behavior • Teaching desired replacement behavior often requires teaching complex skills that the student is lacking, such as . . . • Academic deficits • Social Skills deficits • Communication deficits • Organizational/school skills deficits *Teaching Desired Long-Term Replacement Behavior Handout

16. Desired Replacement Behavior

17. Activity: Identify Desired Replacement Behavior

18. Desired Replacement Behaviors • The gap may be very wide between the desired behavior and what the student is currently doing; therefore, the team will need to identify a short-term alternative behavior.

19. Alternative Replacement Behavior Alternative replacement behavior is . . . • An immediate attempt to reduce disruption & potentially dangerous behavior in the classroom • Designed to actively begin breaking the student’s habit of using problem behavior to meet their needs, by replacing it with a more acceptable alternate behavior

20. Alternative Replacement Behavior Alternative replacement behavior . . . • Serves the same function as the problem behavior • Is easier to do and more efficient than the problem behavior • Requires less physical effort & provides quicker, more reliable access to desired outcome/response than problem behavior • Others respond immediately when the student uses the replacement skill, especially during initial instruction? • Ensure that replacement skills are encouraged and not inadvertently punished • Is socially acceptable

21. Alternative Short-term Replacement Examples

22. Sample Power Card

23. Activity:Identify Alternative Replacement Behavior

24. Activity: Identify Desired and Alternative Replacement Behaviors

25. Activity: Identify Desired and Alternative Replacement Behaviors

26. Activity: Identify Desired and Alternative Replacement Behaviors Jo whistles and looks away when peers talk to her during free time activities. This results in peers walking away from her. Glen shoves his book and rips his paper when the teacher directs students to begin work on independent math assignments requiring multiplication and division. This results in removal from the work area to a time out area.