Confrontational/ Defensive

The student may:

• Lash out verbally at others

• Withdraw (emotionally or physically)

• Challenge the authority of the adult

• Refuse to comply with adult requests

• Refuse to follow classroom routines

• Project blame onto others

• Denies the obvious

• Unable to admit a mistake

• Poor judgment

• Touchy and overly sensitive

• Impulsively reactive

• Minimize others and issues

• Have a strong sense of injustice and being wronged

• Easily provoked, irritate, and upset

Tier I Interventions

Before you start, a few important points:

• Try multiple interventions

• Try each intervention for a minimum of 4-weeks and over 1 intervention may be implemented at the same time.

• Further details on each intervention is linked here.

Interventions:

• Avoid power struggles

• Card Flip

• Explain assignment

• Give choices

• Ignore

• Logical consequence

• Redirection

• Speak with student in hallway

• Take a break

• Teach conflict resolution skills (counselor can support)

• Teach coping skills (counselor can support)

• Teach relationship skills (counselor can support)

• Teach relaxation techniques (counselor can support)

• Teach social skills (counselor can support)

• Use calm neutral tone