Jami Shlensky

Phase 4

Managing the Learning Environment

Describe the context/situation:

The behavior that I am trying to increase is for students to greet teachers when

they enter our classroom. I will only teach the behavior when entering the intervention

room as to avoid students disrupting their general education classrooms to greet their

teachers.

Operational Definition:

Students should enter classroom and say “Hi Ms. Jami” without prompting.

Baseline Data:

For two school days I tracked the percentage of times that each student entered

the classroom and spontaneously greeted the teacher. Often the students were prompted

to greet the teacher and did, but the goal is for the students to greet without prompts.

Each student had a different amount of opportunities and therefore their percentages are

displayed. It is clear, from this data, that the students have had no formal instruction on

greeting.

Percentage of times entering classroom where student greets teacher without prompting

Date AH DY AJ PN2/4/13 0% 0% 0% 0%2/11/13 0% 0% 0% 0%

Proposed intervention:

In order to increase the percentage of times that students enter the classroom and

greet me, the teacher, I will teach the students to greet using a social story, modeling, and

a faded prompting system.

As a result of the intervention I hope that students will enter the classroom and

greet me, or another teacher, without prompting 80% of the time. I will communicate to

the students that they need to say hello to their teachers whenever they come in our

classroom in order to set clear expectations.

Before the behavior occurs I will read the students the attached social story first

thing in the morning, during breakfast. This will set the environment to greet for the

remainder of the day when they enter the classroom. During instruction, when students

enter the classroom and do not greet me I will say “_____, say ‘Hi Ms. S”. This will be

faded as students start to greet without prompting. When the students display the

appropriate behavior, they will receive verbal praise.

Data will be recorded once weekly. I will keep track of how many times each

student enters the classroom and out of those total times how many times they greet me

without prompting. I will then calculate their percentage for the day and record it on the

chart displayed below. Data will then be graphed to display progress.

Date AH DY AJ PN

# Entered        

# Greet w/o Prompt