Behavior Management Plan
By: Alpha Sanford
My behavior management plan is created around working with students who have emotional, psychological and medical conditions. This type of population requires more than the usual behavior management skills needed to work with a set of more manageable students who require less intensity of educational intervention. Some educators might reject the thought of using a more structured and a more physically involved intervention processes such as restraints, detentions and longer time-outs. Some feel that there is a greater need to incorporate this so-called “punitive” behavior intervention plan in teaching this particular group. However, I believe that students, who are enrolled in special programs such as therapeutic schools, definitely call for a structured behavior management plan, that is also individualized, reasonable and achievable that is beyond the educational aspect.
It is important to know that these students deal with more than just their learning problems. They come to school with more than an extra baggage on their shoulders. They deal with their psychological conditions that may interfere with the possibility of staying in sane and “be” in the present moment. To be able to stabilize a balanced educational environment, these students must create a sound plan to manage all the different problems they are confronted with. They must put their psychological problems on one hand, take their emotional issues on another and then incorporate some time to learn. In addition to that, they are expected to behave within the acceptable standards of the teachers.
It is with my utmost capacity to incorporate all of these concerns that these students have in implementing my behavior management plan. It is expected that in the classroom, each student receive an individualized plan according to his or her many underlying conditions. However, for the sake of communicating a general overview of how my personal behavior management plans looks like, I have put together a packet that speaks of a generic approach to this situation.
This Behavior Management Plan (BMP) is divided into three sections:
a. BMP During Instruction
- Beginning of class
- During class
- End of class
- Transition time
b. BMP During Clinical Check-in
- Regular check-in
- Involuntary check-in
- Team meeting
- Crisis Team
c. BMP During Consequence Time
- 10 minute time-out
- 20 minute Community Violation
- In-school Suspension
- Out of School Suspension
With this Behavior Management Plan comes a Level System of rewarding students who are able to balance their personal issues with staying in class. This is incorporated as a way of motivating the students to excel in their academics, but at the same time
