Childhood Behavior Expectations, Rewards, Corrections, and Evaluations Angela Gardner, Misty Faulkenberry, Susan Munroe, and Stevie Longfellow PS340: Exceptional Needs Children May 26, 2015 Childhood Behavior Expectations, Rewards, Corrections, and Evaluations Children are learning every day from the actions, language, and movement of the teachers, families, and idols. This could mean that they are having a hard time distinguishing what is the right way to behave. Younger children are impressionable, distinguishing what correct or healthy behavior is. Teaching them while they are younger about good behavior could save them some frustration later in life. Defining specific behaviors for children such as staying focused and on task, socializing …show more content…
Tier one prevention method teaches students and clearly defines how to correctly behave with each presented behavior. Tier two is a secondary prevention created to help those students who show more at risk behavior. This tier has a point card in which to evaluate students meeting defined criteria and giving the students hints or feedback throughout the day. This point card can be used for a reward system at the end of the day for each student who does certain behaviors correctly. Tier three is for the children who need intensive, individual interventions because they are exhibiting serious behavior problems. This tier would create a Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP) for the child and make sure that in this case the child is given numerous tips and strategies to help the behavior correct itself. (Heward, 2013). Each student who shows behaviors such as not staying focused and on task, not socializing correctly, not refraining from talking when class is in session, and not minding their manners will be helped by the tiers of the SWPBS system. (Heward, 2013). Primarily the SWPBS is the same across the board with retrospect to respecting yourself, respecting others and their property, being safe, responsible and respectful as well as being honest and trustworthy. Discipline in schools has primarily been focused on the use of punishment to control bad behavior v. trying to find the solution to why the bad behavior is being caused. (Heward, 2013). As a result the SWPBS has adapted a way in which student discipline can be taught by using positive school