BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION PLAN WORKSHEET:
STRATEGIES ATTEMPTED
STUDENT NAME:______________________________________ DATE:_____________________
Target Behavior #1:__________________________________________________________________
Target Behavior #2:__________________________________________________________________
KEY: Works Well Works Sometimes Doesn’t Work Need Time Not Attempted
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Use the KEY to evaluate the effectiveness of all strategies that apply.
Target Target
STRATEGY Behavior Behavior
#1 #2
1. Create a positive classroom setting, in which students feel cared
for, capable, and able to contribute.
2. Develop, post and review rules, procedures, and routines.
3. Classroom Behavior Management Plan: Please explain: ________
________________________________________________________
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4. Behavioral expectations are clarified and connected to classroom
rules and values.
5. Provide positive reinforcement: verbal, visual, social, and/or
edible. Use common classroom activities and privileges as
incentives (i.e. recess, center time, computer access, special jobs,
party food, etc).
6. Provide immediate and specific feedback and praise for making
good choices.
7. Provide intermittent visual and verbal cues to help student self-
monitor.
8. Use proximity and touch control (know student).
KEY: Works Well Works Sometimes Doesn’t Work Need Time Not Attempted
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Target Target
STRATEGY Behavior Behavior
#1 #2
9. Give 4 praise statements for every verbal reprimand.
10. Give precision requests: tell, don’t ask; use quiet voice, get close;
state behavior specifically, be clam, do not nag. Then, break eye
contact and walk away. Reinforce compliance.
11. Use differential attention DRI, DRA, DRA, DRL. If behavior
escalates, plan for and administer a consequence.
12. Use behavior momentum strategies; to increase compliance, ask
student to do a few tasks he/she likes before requesting non-
preferred task.
13. Reinforce other students for appropriate behavior.
14. Reinforce using a continuous schedule.
15. Reinforce using a fixed ratio schedule.
16. Reinforce using a fixed interval schedule.
17. Reinforce using a variable ratio schedule.
18. Reinforce using a variable interval ratio schedule.
19. Provide adult structured transitions to avoid problems.
20. Develop a behavioral shaping procedure by using differential
reinforcement combined with shifting criteria.
21. Use prompts (verbal, gestural, pictorial, modeling, or partial
physical).
22. Use “I” messages. I feel _________because_______________.
23. Use signal interference e.g. the teacher signals to the child by
gestures or facial expression when trouble is developing.
24. Involve student in interest relationship.
25. Use hypodermic affection.
26. Use humor i.e. skillful kidding can be helpful in diverting problems
allowing the child a face-saving out when stress in building.
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Target Target
STRATEGY Behavior Behavior
#1 #2
27. Hurdle Help: Provide immediate, on-the spot assistance.
28. Regrouping: making temporary changes in a group.
29. Direct appeal: use an honest appeal to stop a problem.
30. Limiting space and tools.
31. Antiseptic bouncing: removing the chills from the group for a few
minutes.
32. Use preferential seating close to the source of instruction.
33. Provide instructional supports, accommodations and modifications,
as needed, to set the student up for success and to minimize
frustration and behavior problems.
34. Use extinction: a procedure in which reinforcement of a previously
reinforced behavior is discontinued.
35. Use response cost: the continent removal of a discrete amount of
reinforces following a target response, with the result of reducing
the future probability of that response occurring.
36. Deprivation of tangible commodities.
37. Withdrawal of a specific favored activity.
38. Limiting discretion over commodities or activities.
39. Dockage of tokens that represent items of events that were earned.
40. Use time out procedures.
41. Use non-exclusionary time out-planned ignoring.
42. Withdrawal of a specific positive reinforcer.
43. Decreasing visual or auditory stimuli.
44. Use time out ribbon.
45. Contingent observation: The student is placed in a different part of
the classroom for a specified period of time, but the observation of
ongoing group activities is still possible.
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Target Target
STRATEGY Behavior Behavior
#1 #2
46. Implement an Individual Behavior Management Plan with
Teacher/Student Monitoring and rewards. Use a Behavior
Contract.
47. Document behavior and devise home-school communications
system daily/weekly for home back-up. Tie student progress to
positive and negative consequences at home.
48. For non-compliance or inappropriate behavior, allow the student to
experience consequences (related, reasonable, and respectful).
49. Intervene (re-direct, provide help, distract, remind of choices and
consequences, etc.) at the beginning of a misconduct cycle;
1. ignores 2. delays 3. argues 4. tantrum/aggression.
50. Have a pre-planned consequence ready when the behavior escalates.
51. Use a class meeting to address issues and find solutions.
52. Lead with empathy. For example; Non-verbal Interventions or
Verbal: “You must be really upset? Or “Feeling really sad and
lonely?” Deliver as a question.
53. Give choices that are enforceable and you can control: Give 2
positive or 2 neutral choices: “You are welcome to __________
or _____________________.”
54. Responsibility training: Interview the student. Clarify needs,
wants, and goals. Make a plan. “What do you need to start/stop
doing?”
55. For attention seeking behavior, minimize the attention: (ignore, give
the eye, stand close by, use students name, give a secret signal).
56. For attention-seeking behavior, legitimize the behavior, do the
unexpected, distract the student.
57. For attention-seeking behavior, notice appropriate behavior, move
the student.
58. For avoidance-of-failure behavior, modify instructional methods,
provide tutoring, make learning concrete.
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Target Target
STRATEGY Behavior Behavior
#1 #2
59. For avoidance-of-failure behavior, modify instructional methods,
provide tutoring ,make learning concrete.
60. For avoidance-of-failure behavior, focus on past success build
confidence, make mistakes okay, recognize achievement.
61. Communication strategies during power struggles:
a. Stay calm; separate yourself from the problem.
b. Acknowledge the student’s power and need for self-control.
c. Actively listen to the student without agreeing or
disagreeing. Use “I” messages.
d. Acknowledge there is a power struggle and defer the conflict
to a later time. Use emotionally neutral statements.
62. Phone call to parent for back-up support.
63. Send home-school communication form to parent.
64. Develop a rubric for behavior that is developed by the parent as
part of the home-school note.
65. Temporary remove the student from the classroom. Allow the
student to save face.
66. To diffuse power struggles, use a 6 step procedure:
a. Use PEP (privacy, eye-contact, proximity).
b. Ignore “hooks”.
c. Listen, acknowledge, agree, and defer.
d. Point out the potential for a fight and what is at stake.
e. Set the limit and give the student the choice to leave the
classroom to go to a pre-arranged place.
f. Acknowledge the disruption and remove the student if
necessary. Get help if the student resists leaving.
67. For power and revenge behaviors, at the “eruption stage,” use time
out.
KEY: Works Well Works Sometimes Doesn’t Work Need Time Not Attempted
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Target Target
STRATEGY Behavior Behavior
#1 #2
68. For power and revenge behaviors, avoid and defuse confrontations:
Six guidelines for intervention:
a. Focus on behavior, not the student (describe the behavior;
don’t evaluate it).
b. Take charge of negative emotions (respond but don’t react to
the student’s misbehavior. For students seeking power, your
anger is a pay-off.
c. Avoid escalating the situation by what you say or do: (for
example, don’t stand too close or point your finger or use
tense body language; don’t yell, be sarcastic or bossy; don’t
make accusations or use physical force).
d. Discuss misbehavior later: (allow student and self to calm
down; wait for a period of time ranging from 30 minutes to
the next day, depending on the intensity of the incident.
e. Allow the student to save face: (give time to respond; talk
privately, ignore minor grumbling; avoid unreasonable
demands).
f. Model non-aggressive behavior: (by maintaining self-control
we invite students to do the same).
69. For power and revenge behaviors at the initial “rumbling stage”,
make a graceful exit: acknowledge the student’s power, calmly
remind of choices and consequences, remove the audience, table the
matter, make a date to talk, agree with the student, change the
subject.
70. For power and revenge behaviors, at the “resolution stage” set the
consequences: loss or delay or preferred activities; required contact
with school personnel, parents, police; loss or delay of access to
areas; denied interactions with others.
71. Use a replacement social skill. The skills is _________________
(example: listening, having a conversation, dealing with aggression).
Use the following procedures: explain the steps, model, role play
performance feedback and transfer of training.
72. Explain the Conflict Cycle to the student.
73. Use LSI steps: 1. FOCUS ON THE INCIDENT. 2. STUDENTS IN
CRISIS NEED TO TALK. 3. FIND THE CENTRAL ISSUE AND
SELECT A THERAPEUTIC GOAL. 4. CHOOSE A SOLUTION.
5. PLAN FOR SUCCESS. 6. RESUME ACTIVITY.
74. Other:
75. Other:
BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION PLAN
NAME OF STUDENT:______________________________________ DATE:_____________________
BEHAVIOR GOAL #1:__________________________________________________________________
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BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION PLAN
NAME OF STUDENT:______________________________________ DATE:_____________________
BEHAVIOR GOAL #2:__________________________________________________________________
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Behavior Intervention Plan
Student:_________________________________________________________________ DATE:____________________
Plan Coordinator:________________________________________________________
The team recognizes that this student may manifest behavior that does not conform to the usual rules and regulations of the
school. However, it also recognizes that a standard of discipline must be maintained for the protection of all students and to
minimize disruption to the educational process. Therefore, this Behavior Intervention plan has been developed. Nothing in
this plan is intended to prevent school authorities from taking whatever emergency or immediate steps necessary to maintain a
safe environment.
Target Behavior # 1:__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Replacement Behavior: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Intervention Strategy Consequences Assessment/Data Person(s) Responsible
Positive and/or Negative Collection for Implementation
(methods and schedule)
Target Behavior # 2:__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Replacement Behavior: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Intervention Strategy Consequences Assessment/Data Collection Person(s)
Positive and/or Negative (method and schedule) Responsible
for Implementation
Date for meeting to review the plan and modify as needed: __________________________________________________________________
_______ Revised (please attach report) Follow up review date:_________________________________________
_______ Continued Follow up review date:_________________________________________
_______ Achieved/Completed
ADDENDUM
A-B-C DATA COLLECTION FORM
Date Time Incident A: ANTECEDENT STIMULI B: DESCRIPTION OF THE BEHAVIOR C: CONSEQUENCES Individual’s Response Staff
Began and Ended Initials
Antecedent Stimuli: Should include events or activities that preceded the behavior. Consequences: All the events or activities
Antecedents to consider include: what staff and other individuals were doing, followed the behavior; include response of
environmental changes, etc. staff and other individuals.
Description of Behavior: Describe the exact behaviors exhibited. Individual’s response: Describe what
the individual who performed the
behavior did in response to the
consequences.
