Around Town Round Up-- Behavior Management Systems

Managing behaviors and teaching replacement behaviors is an important component of the classroom. There are many options for creating a behavior management system. Today we have gathered systems from across the Miami Valley to share on our Around Town Round Up.

Class-wide systems

This classroom uses a token economy where students earn or lose coins based on the expectations displayed. Coins are collected in the individual student's coin cup. Staff sets a designated time for students to trade in their coins for reinforcers.

Jamie Minnish
Prass Elementary, Kettering

The following system also uses coins that can be earned or lost. Students earn rewards based on the color they are on at the end of the day.

Taylor Ruef
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River

For this token system, students only earned tokens to put in the cup on their desks. They did not lose tokens. 

Natalie Griffen
Smith Middle School, Vandalia

This token system incorporated a common special interest for the students. 

Heather Balkcom
Piqua Intermediate, Piqua

For some students, individualized behavior systems may be put into place to target specific behaviors or to incorporate specific special interests. 

When targeting specific behaviors, a Motivation Assessment Scale can be done to determine the function of the behavior. These function wheels are a great tool for teams who are looking for function-specific interventions. 

Darke County ESC

Once the function is identified, the team determines replacement behaviors and develops a system for reinforcing the replacement behavior. This student was being reinforced for keeping their hands folded (replacing hitting behavior).

This system can be used for escape behaviors. Student's choose a reinforcing item to earn through completing work tasks.

Rylie Jarrett
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River

Incorporating special interests or favorite reinforcers helps to get student buy-in to a system. This student loves flags so their tokens were flags of various countries. 

Jennifer McGowan
Smith Middle School, Vandalia

 This student loved playing on the iPad so their reinforcement system required earning pieces of the iPad picture.

Jamie Minnish
Prass Elementary, Kettering 

An essential part to any behavior management system is reinforcement! To determine what students find motivating, a reinforcement inventory can be done. Students may be given the choice of reinforcers or reinforcers may be varied using a spinner. 

Elisha Volp
Northridge Elementary, Northeastern

Leslie Mann
Smith Middle School, Vandalia

When managing behavior, it is important to teach what is expected in a way that student's understand. We love this differentiated rules chart with words, pictures, and tactile images. Students and staff pledged to follow the classroom rules with a hand print. 

Rylie Jarrett
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River

 The CHAMPS Classroom Management System accounts for changing expectations and uses visuals to let students know the expected conversation level, how to request help, activity size, allowed movement, and participation level.

Contingency Maps are another great way to prime students for expected and unexpected behaviors.

Little Miss Kim's Class

Taylor Ruef
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River

When targeting specific behaviors, it is important to collect data to monitor system effectiveness and to adjust the system as needed. 

Keelin DiMuccio
Fairbrook Elementary, Beavercreek 

Jenna Heitker
Greenmont Elementary, Kettering

Brittany Sword
Valley Elementary, Beavercreek

Beth Young
Snyder Park Elementary, Springfield

We hope this post inspires your classroom behavior management systems, visuals, and progress monitoring! For more ideas on behavior supports see our previous posts:

Around Town Round Up: Reinforcement Systems

Around Town Round Up: More Reinforcement Systems

Around Town Round Up: Reinforcement for Task Completion