Description
Social, emotional, and behavioral factors hugely affect academic performance.
When effectively taught, social-emotional, academic, and behavioral competencies support learners in adapting to the classroom, crucially encourage their engagement, and promote their academic achievement.
This course will introduce the participants to the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework, an evidence-based three-tiered framework created to improve student academic performance through continuum support, thus creating an inclusive school context.
Course participants will familiarize themselves specifically with the framework’s first two levels: classroom universal essentials (Tier I), and reactive practices (Tier II) that support and respond to students’ social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs and challenges in classrooms.
Participants will also learn about Tier III, which discusses how to intensify and individualize practices that involve further support to meet the specific needs of individual students.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to manage their classrooms with a positive, preventive, and reactive style.
Moreover, they will be able to create a supportive classroom environment to respond to their students’ social, emotional, and behavioral needs and challenges. Thus, they will be in a better position to increase learners’ academic success and lead to effective quality-of-life outcomes.
What is included
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define the universal essentials of classroom management to establish a positive teaching and learning environment;
- Employ practices that provide an important foundation of universal (tier 1) classroom support to increase students’ engagement and decrease both off-task and disruptive behaviors;
- Provide additional instruction and practice for behavioral, social, emotional, and academic skills (Tier 2);
- Be engaged in functional behavioral assessments and intervention planning.
Tentative schedule
Day 1 – Effective classroom management
- Introduction to the course, the school, and the external week activities;
- Icebreaker activities;
- Presentations of the participants’ schools;
- Personal goal setting;
- Reflecting on Classroom Management: what is it? What are the types of effective actions and strategies?
Day 2 – The PBIS framework
- The PBIS framework: tier I, tier II, tier III;
- Creating positive expectations by co-developing a classroom matrix with the students;
- Applying classroom strategies to engage students in expected behaviors
Day 3 – Promoting inclusion with differentiated instruction
- How to consider students’ learning history, SEB, and academic needs;
- How to plan an effective differentiated instruction.
Day 4 – Introduction to Tier 2 Supports
- Improving equity in the Tier 1 system;
- Introduction to Tier 2 Evidence-based practices: Self-monitoring strategies (e.g., check-in/check-out, check & connect), small group social skills, and academic accommodations and supports.
Day 5 – Introduction to Tier 3
- Setting up Individualized support for students with persistent challenging behavior;
- The fundamentals of a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and a Behavior Intervention Plan/BIP.
Day 6 – Course closure & cultural activities
- Course evaluation: round-up of acquired competencies, feedback, and discussion;
- Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance;
- Excursion and other external cultural activities.
