Tier I Interventions for Negative Attitude
Before you start, a few important points:
- Try multiple interventions
- Each intervention should be tried for a minimum of 4 weeks, & more than 1 intervention may be implemented at the same time
- Collect and track specific data on each intervention tried & its effect
- If your data indicates no progress after a minimum of 6 months, you may consider moving to tier 2 interventions
Interventions:
- Acknowledging positive behavior
- Avoid power struggles
- Call parent or positive note home
- Card Flip
- Encourage interaction with a more self confident student
- Engage student
- Model appropriate language
- Praise student frequently
- Praise when good attitude and involvement occur
- Redirection
- Reflection sheet
- Review PBIS expectations and rules
- Rewards, Simple Reward Systems, & Incentives
- Speak in calm and neutral tone
- Speak with student in hallway
- Start Commands
- Take away privileges
- Take away unstructured or free time
- Talk to parent
- Teach coping skills
- Teach social skills
- Teach substitute words