Challenging Behaviors

There are many students that may behave inappropriately in a classroom setting. There are always reasons behind a student's behavior. As a result, there are seven high-hit reasons a teacher can look at to determine the cause of a students behavior. According to Knoff (2011), those reasons can be seen below. Skill Deficit Students may be exhibiting inappropriate behavior due to lack of social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Speed of Acquisition Students are all learning the same thing, but some students may not be learning at the same rate. Transfer of Training Students may have a hard time applying their training skills when they are independent, away from the teacher. Conditions of Emotionality When a students emotions take over them where it is difficult for them to learn, focus, and communicate appropriately. Motivation or Performance Deficit When a student does not have the motivation to perform, they tend to exhibit challenging behavio...

The Response to Instruction/Intervention process is a model that school's follow in order "to maximize the academic and social, emotional, and behavioral learning, progress, and proficiencies of all students" (Knoff, 2011). Although this process may look different for many different students of different grades and ages, the result is a successful self-manager and independent learner.   Figure 1.  At the school I teach at, I researched and analyzed our Rtl 2 model. Based on Figure 1 above, we go through the same Problem Solving Process. As teachers, we are learning in conjunction with our students. By attempting to figure out a solution to a problem, we can focus on improving our instruction which will only benefit our students. By using the multi-tiered Rtl 2   model shown below, teachers can address at-risk, underachieving, unresponsive, and unsuccessful students who are not demonstrating academic and/or social, emotional, and behavioral progress, m...