Thursday, July 5, 2018

The Significance Of Behavior Assessments For Students

By Roger Collins


Children spend a larger part of their normal day in school, giving them access to certain traits for coping with their school environment. Growing up, children may have special ways of communication or change in their manners which could subject them to having social interaction difficulties if not corrected immediately. Behavior Assessments in institutions serves a great purpose in dealing with this kind of situations.

This strategy serves the purpose of coming up with supportive and corrective plans to be used to deal with children who show a lot of problem behaviors. The assessment can be carried out regularly during school hours. It allows institutions to keep track of the traits of the student involved so as to employ corrective measures that will prevent further drastic change in traits.

There are a number of reasons that lead to a child being problematic, one being to escape from something that he or she finds unpleasant or boring. In schools, students may behave in a certain way so as to prevent themselves from doing activities that they do not like. For instance, a pupil may often engage in fights during sport events so as to be sent away to the disciplinary office so that he or she may not have to play.

Some individuals have the need to grasp the attention of their teachers or students especially when they feel that they are not given enough. For instance, one could make noisy sounds, throw things at others or simply become noisy in class so as to get the attention of the teacher. When a child who seeks attention notices that this is the only way to get it, he or she will keep doing so.

At times, children do find it hard to communicate to adults especially when they hold a certain authority such as teachers. It is at this point that some children turn to problematic behaviors as a form of communicating back to the adults. The problem with this is that the children will be drawn to keep up with this certain traits when the adults respond quickly to them such that any time they want to connect with the adults, they do so by being ill-mannered.

In order to deal with students who are portraying such characters, an assessment ought to be carried out immediately. Collection of data on issues such as the driving factors, trigger factors and reasons for child behaving in that particular way will help come up with corrective plans and tactics to help deal with their situations.

For the assessment to be successful, a professional approach needs to be taken. This could require the intervention of a specialist who is well trained on this kind of behavioral patterns. It is recommended that a certified individual is sought out for this in order to have proper feedback as well as the implementation of a corrective plan that will assist the students.

Training teachers on how to deal with students showing problem behaviors is more beneficial. It is important to consider the fact that students spend a lot of time in the presence of their teachers and when they are well trained on how to handle such characters, there will be much improvement in teacher-student relationship.




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