Year 1 Membership Objectives

• Describe the importance of staff training and list several ways to incorporate regular staff training time into
  the school day.
•  Identify the steps for Behavior Skills Training and describe how to utilize Behavior Skills Training with paraprofessionals to
  teach running classroom stations and preparing classroom materials.
•  List several types of student schedules and identify the process for selecting an appropriate schedule type for students.
• Describe how to create, teach, and maintain a classroom-based independent work system.
• Define reinforcement and pairing. Define and identify the difference between bribery and reinforcement. Identify the
  steps for pairing.
• List receptive language challenges and why visuals could be beneficial during both academic and non-academic periods.
• List reasons why a token economy can be effective and what factors contribute to the success or lack of success of a token economy.
• Identify and define the functions of behavior and steps to determine the function of a behavior utilizing ABC data.
• Identify and define learning channels and how to pinpoint behaviors.
• Define discrete trial training and identify the steps for utilizing it.
• List procedures for training staff to collect frequency data using the Behavior Skills Training Model.
• List ways to utilize visuals for improving academic performance.
• List 5 strategies for effective group instruction.
• Define replacement behaviors, how to teach them, including the Phase 1/Phase 2 process.
• Explain why fading prompts is important. List and describe a variety of methods for fading prompts including time delay.
• Define and describe fluency instruction. Create a plan for classroom based fluency instruction, including selection of goals, mastery criteria, and data collection procedures.
• List the steps to write a function-based behavior plan including critical components.
• List strategies to improve staff buy-in for classroom-based procedures.
• List proactive, reactive, and environmental strategies to reduce problem behaviors.
• Identify procedures for training staff to implement behavior plans using the Behavior Skills Training Model.
• List ways to add structure into areas of the day that occur outside of the classroom (gym, cafeteria, specials classes, etc.).
• Define the SMART IEP goal acronym and explain each step to creating a goal using this process.
• Plan and develop a meaningful end of the year survey for staff including an action plan with results.
• List types of student schedules and qualifications for changing schedule types for individual students.
• Define generalization and list multiple strategies for embedding and promoting generalization into instruction.
• Create a thorough crisis plan and identify steps to train staff to follow the plan.
• List options for organization systems for paperwork, material preparation, and material storage.
• Create a plan for establishing beginning of the year present levels of performance.
• Create a baseline behavior data sheet.

Year 1 Membership Agenda

September (69 minutes)

• Introduction
• Team Mission Statement
• Successful Classroom: Small Group and Structured
• Individual Student Schedules
• Independent Work Systems
• Reinforcement and Pairing 101
• Communication for All

October (94 minutes)

• How to Create Training Time
• Using Membership Videos as a Training Tool
• Often Overlooked Aspects of Classroom Visuals
• Classroom Teaching Plan
• How to Talk With and About Your Students
• Token Economy
• Start the Day with a Win: Morning Meeting and Circle Time

November (76 minutes)

• Behavior Skills Training
• Mini Schedules
• Organizing and Running a Direct Instruction Center
• Functions of Behavior
• How We Cause Problem Behavior
• Social Language Instruction in Virtual Learning

December (60 minutes)

• Having Paraprofessionals Run Centers
• Resource Preparation Center
• Visuals for Behavior
• Taking Frequency Data While You Teach
• Taking and Analyzing ABC Data

January (65 minutes)

• Teaching Staff to Take Data (Part 1)
• Visuals for Academics
• 5 Strategies for Group Instruction
• Replacement Behaviors
• Homework

February (75 minutes)

• Teaching Staff to Take Data (Part 2)
• Fading Prompts (Part 1)
• Fluency Instruction (Part 1)
• Using a Fluency Baseline Assessment
• Writing a Function-Based Behavior Intervention Plan

March (51 minutes)

• Increasing Staff Buy-In
• Fading Prompts (Part 2)
• Planned Schedule Changes
• Fluency Instruction (Part 2)
• Proactive Behavior Strategies and Environmental Strategies

April (65 minutes)

• Training Staff on Behavior Plans
• Adding Structure Outside the Classroom
• SMART IEP Goals
• Reactive Behavior Strategies

May (36 minutes)

• Exit Interview
• Upgrading Schedules at End of Year
• Goal Generalization Strategies
• Crisis Plans