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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Education 373-3
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Behavior Management in the Regular Classroom: Elementary
Summer Session, 1990 ?
Instructor: 0. Harris
MTWRFS
8:30-12;30
August 7-15,1990
Location: Kelowna
Prerequisite:
Certified Practicing Teacher
Course Description:
This course is designed to teach mainstream teachers.a
comprehensive, effective, ecological approach, inclusive of family
systems involvement, to managing student behavior in the regular
classroom. This course focuses not only on the child, but on the
child's total environment and how it affects behavior. Teachers
should leave this course with a "conceptual framework that
illustrates what procedures are most appropriate for specific
behaviors and settings, under what conditions they should be used,
and what other factors,e.g.
family
involvement,
should be considered
when developing and implementing interventions."
Course Objectives:
1.
To describe common behavior problems of mainstreamed
students.
2.
To provide principles to be followed for managing behavior
3.
To suggest methods for gathering, recording, and evaluation data
about classroom behaviors.
4.
To provide strategies for managing and improving the behavior of
students in the regular classroom.
5.
To identify the impact of environmental conditions on specific
behaviors.
6.
To identify strategies for working with families in facilitating the
management of student behavior.
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Course Outline and Assigned Readings:
I. Behavior Problems in the classroom (Chapters 1,2)
A.
Indicators of Behavior Problem
B.
Targeting Behavior and Environment Conditions
C.
Implications for Families
II. Methods of Gathering Data (Chapter 3)
A.
Assessing Behavior and Environmental Conditions
B.
Recording Behavior Data
C.
Evaluation Behavioral Data
D.
Using Behavioral Data
III. Principles of Managing Behavior (Chapters 4-5)
A.
Intervening in the school environment
B.
Increasing Appropriate Behavior and Teaching New
Behavior
C.
Decreasing and Eliminating Inappropriate Behavior
D.
Strategies for Changing Behavior
IV. Maintaining Behavior Change (Chapters 9,10)
A.
Generalization
B.
Evaluating the behavior change
V. The Ecology of Behavioral Change (Assigned Readings)
A.
The Home-School Partnership and behavioral change
B.
Understanding Family Functioning
C.
Strategies for communicating and collaborating with
families of children with behavior problems
Course Requirements:
1.
Read Text and Assigned Readings
2.
Final Examination
3.
Using assigned case studies, develop a behavior management
plan, including strategies for home-school collaboration.
4.
Attendance and class participation
Grading Scale:
As applicable
