The BAIT Debate

Lorie and Joceline introduce a new guest, Krystal Martin. They discuss trauma in the brain together.

Lorie and Joceline discuss ways to find joy in every student.

Lorie and Joceline discuss methods to get students to comply with directions and cultivate their compliance to instruction.

Today we're talking about fidgety friends. Or the ideas for the student or ideas for the student who just can't sit still. "If a student seems unable to sit still, should we just let them run around the classroom and hope that they learn something? Well, I certainly hope not. I think that would probably be the the last thing we want to let them do."

Lorie and Joceline discuss ways to improve behavior and how some behavior gets worse before it gets better.

Lorie and Joceline discuss methods to help motivate students and reinforce positive behavior.

Bait debate will address simple research based behavioral practices that will work with individual students or groups of students in school settings. Today we're going to be talking about finding function, especially the tricky ones. So, Lorie, what makes finding the right function tricky? There are so many factors that go into finding the right function. Some of those factors could be your lack of data and just following your gut. 

Everything we do with students should have teaching in mind, whether it's academic or behavioral. 

The situations and questions that we talk about are adapted from what we are seeing and hearing in schools. These are common struggles with students of all abilities. Although they are simple strategies, they will be effective at decreasing challenging behavior and making your day just a little bit easier. We're excited to share these strategies to make them available to teachers, general teachers, and all other staff working in schools. 

So let's talk about what are some types of crises that we see in schools. All types of crisis nowadays. We're seeing them in both general education and special education classrooms.