Assessment

Take some time now to answer the following questions. Please note that the IRIS Center does not collect
your Assessment responses. If this is a course assignment, you should turn them in to your professor
using whatever method he or she requires. If you have trouble answering any of the questions, go back
and review the Perspectives & Resources pages in this module.

Students quietly readingAt the beginning of the school year, you created a classroom behavior
management plan, and for the most part it has been working well. Lately, however, you’ve noticed a
number of students eating candy and chewing gum during class. List two changes that you could make
to your behavior plan to address this increasingly problematic behavior.

Most teachers create procedures for routine activities (e.g., walking in the hallway, going to the
restroom). Just as important are procedures for less-frequent activities (e.g., attending an assembly,
responding to a fire or tornado drill). Select a less-frequent activity and write out a new procedure to
address it.

You developed a step-by-step crisis behavior plan to address serious problem behaviors that might arise
in the classroom. Now consider what you would do if a behavior crisis occurred while your students
were a) in an assembly or b) on the playground. Create a separate crisis plan to address one of these
situations.

You created an action plan to effectively implement your behavior management plan. Midway through
the school year, though, two new students are assigned to your class.

How would you introduce these students to your classroom behavior management plan?

How would you introduce their parents to the classroom behavior management plan?

To complete the following activity, you will need to revisit (though not change) your classroom behavior
management plan. Watch the student behaviors depicted in the movie below and decide how you
would address them (time: 1:53). Note: You might find it easier to play the entire movie once and then
replay it using the pause button as you work through the scenario.

Use the worksheet below to complete this question.

Worksheet (option 1)– Click here to open (in a separate window) a version of the worksheet you can
complete online. Print it out once you have finished.

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Transcript: Assessment

Before math class gets started, Emily follows the procedure for sharpening her pencil correctly.

Caleb hasn’t turned in his homework for two days, claiming that his pet goldfish ate it. But today he
turns in his completed assignment on time.

Drew trips Nicole as she walks to the front of the room, sending Nicole’s glasses flying across the room.

Nicole calmly retrieves her glasses and writes the correct answer to her math problem on the board.

Jonathan interrupts your instruction to ask if he can play an action game on the computer during
computer time. He says he brought it with him to class, just in case.
Melissa walks in late for your class for the third day. She says her eyeliner was messed up and she just
had to fix it.

Jonathan asks if he can play a football game on the computer during computer time. He says there’s lots
of math in it.

Jason gets up to get a drink of water without permission in the middle of your instruction. He tells you
that unlimited water privileges are in his IEP, but you’re pretty certain they’re not.

Kristen makes a paper airplane out of a love note and sends it flying across the room to Justin, her
newest boyfriend.

Megan has a learning disability and is extremely shy. She refused to go to the board to answer questions
since the beginning of the year, but today she goes to the board and writes out the correct answer to
her problem.

Jonathan yells out again, wanting to know if he can play a boxing game on the computer during his
computer time. He says he’ll even let you play, too.

After this rather chaotic lesson, your students actually work on their assignment quietly until class time
is over.

If you have implemented a comprehensive behavior management plan and these behavioral issues
continue to occur, which parts of your plan should you consider revising?