Staff Capacity Building

Understand how challenging behavior negatively affects the classroom environment

Recognize the importance of using strategies to address challenging behavior

Consider how culture influences student behavior

Be familiar with using low-intensity strategies to address challenging behavior

Be familiar with using differential reinforcement of alternative behavior to address challenging behavior

Identify appropriate use of strategies in video examples and non-examples

Understand why educators need to be able to effectively address challenging behaviors

Be familiar with how culture can influence challenging behaviors

Be familiar with the seven phases of the acting-out cycle

Be able to recognize the behavioral characteristics associated with each phase of the acting-out cycle

Understand how to appropriately respond to students in different phases of the acting-out cycle