When using this approach, frequent adult guidance,
instruction, and feedback is required.
Purpose:
- To help students learn to become aware of their behavior
difficulties
- To increase their accountability for their actions
- To provide feedback for their behavior without it
constantly coming from the instructors in a judgmental
way
- To help them become engaged in the process
Age Range:
- Depending upon the students' functioning, this will be
useful for students in the upper elementary and higher grade
levels.
Steps:
- Explain to the student the reasons she is learning to
monitor her own behavior. Discuss how this will help her
become more independent.
- Discuss with the student the goals and target replacement
behaviors.
- Review the rating scale you will use with the student.
- Each instructor will need to remind the student
to complete the self-monitoring sheet until it becomes
a habit.
- At the end of the day, discuss with the student
how she did. What areas were difficult and why?
- Gather the data sheets and chart the information.
Each week review the student performance and guide
the student to reflect upon what was challenging.
- For this method, the teacher does not rate the student
for each class. This is to be an instructional approach
to help the older student become more reflective and to
help teach the student to monitor her own behavior.
- However, it can be useful for the instructor to rate
the student in each area and compare their observations
with the student's observations. This can provide additional
feedback and help the student to understand perspectives.
- The student will need to be corrected when necessary
as well as receive acknowledgement or consequences when
necessary.
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