Using a One Page Behavior Plan

11 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this instructional segment, the speaker walks through a sample one‑page behavior‑plan flowchart that illustrates how to manage a student’s attention‑related and inappropriate verbal behaviors. The flowchart first identifies the target attention behavior, the problematic verbal behavior, and the desired replacement behavior. It then outlines step‑by‑step staff responses: when the inappropriate verbal behavior occurs, staff use planned ignoring (ignoring the behavior, not the student) and provide an additional cue; if the student remains quiet, staff wait for the appropriate verbal behavior, then immediately deliver praise (thank you, smile, high‑five) and return the student to the previous activity. The speaker emphasizes that the flowchart condenses all decision points onto a single page, giving staff clear guidance on how to respond to both positive and negative student actions.

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Here's another example of a completed behavior plan flowchart. Again, this is one piece of a behavior plan, and this is just an example, so lots of different situations based on student needs. So here we have an attention behavior, inappropriate verbal behavior, and then of course the replacement behavior, what we want the child to do instead. We would properly define what this behavior looks like, and then the flowchart shows how we're going to respond in each scenario. So if inappropriate verbal behavior happens, we're going to use planned ignoring. That's of the behavior, not of the student. Here's how we're going to respond. Here's how we provide an additional cue, right? The student's quiet, not engaging in those, then uses the appropriate verbal behavior. This is what we do. Then we can return to the previous activity. So what I like about a flowchart is it's going to tell us what to do if each thing happens. If the student starts engaging in positive behavior, here's what we do. If they don't, here's what we do. If appropriate verbal behavior happens, respond immediately, provide praise, say thank you, smile, give high five. So everything's summarized onto one page.