This Behavioral Matrix has been created by summarizing the expectations of grade 4 teachers at our example school from the students and the consequences they thought would be suitable to address those undesired behaviors in line with their intensity level. As it is created with teacher responses we can expect a high teacher buy-in and involvement into the Behavior matrix and its implementation.
There are progressive consequences for progressive undesired behaviors. This is not a punishment scale for the students, but rather, it is a tool to be used by the teachers in order to teach the students Social Skills and help the school implement an Positive Behavior Support System. Another important aspect of the Behavior Matrix is that if an undesired behavior in an intensity level repeats, this behavior is automatically moved to the next intensity level, which is teaching the students not following the teacher's feedback of warnings will have more serious consequences.
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Moreover, we need to teach the levels of intensity and what behaviors corresponds to what intensity level and what are the possible consequences for each of them. If you consequate, you must educate. (Knoff, 2015) For this purpose, we can use the first couple days of the school years, maybe even one whole week, in order to teach the Behavior Matrix to the students. One can claim that this will be waste of instructional time however, we can regard this as an investment for the rest of the year as the implementation of this matrix will minimize classroom distraction, increase the total amount of time the students will spend in the classroom productively and enable the teacher to create a more positive learning