Tough Kids: Practical Behavior Management

Tough Kids: Practical
Behavior Management
Incentives for Tough Kids:
Motivation
Incentives and Motivation
• There are several terms used to describe incentives
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– the most common are rewards and reinforcers
Motivation is viewed as lack of an incentive or drive
to do something
Real question is: Won’t do; Can’t do; or a little of
Both
No-motivation is like heavy metal poisoning- it
builds up “little by little” Like eating too much tuna
fish
Academic failures build up little by little and never
leave the system causing the death of motivation
se
What Do Teachers Think About
Lack of Motivation?
• National Survey of 395 Elementary
General and Special Education Teachers
• Past Failure Experience 63%
• Lack of Ability 50%
• Non-interesting Subject Material 51%
• Best Motivator Teacher Praise 64%
Rawlings & Jenson 2008
What is an Incentive?
• An incentive (reward or reinforcement) is
ANYTHING that increases a behavior or keeps it
going (Teachers Yelling)
• The same identical incentive (behavior goes up) for
one student can be a punisher (behavior goes
down) for another student
Arguments Against Incentives
• The Bribery Argument- Something they
should do anyway
• The Equity Argument- Everyone has to get
exactly the same thing to be fair
– It’s not exactly the same but what they need
to equally succeed
• Harms Internal Motivation- Alfie Kohn
(Punished by Rewards)
– Not busy work, challenging, chance of success
– Feedback about progress
Assessing or Finding Incentives
Golden Rule: Can’t take too much time, Can’t cost too
much money, Can’t be too complicated
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Ask Them
Keep Track of What They Ask For
Watch What They Like to Do
Think Like a “Kid” Not Like an Adult
Let Them Sample Things (Preference Sampling)
Ask Them-Checklist
Nothing Reinforcers Him
Most Liked
Least Liked
Most Unique
Think Like A Kid
Airzooka
Get Zooked!
Nano Hex Bugs
Rent a Nano Hex Bug
Effective Incentive Formula
I = Immediately
 F = Frequently
 E = Eye Contact
 E = Enthusiasm
 D = Describe the Behavior
 A = Anticipation
 V(2) = Variety and Variability (not fixed)
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Anything Can Be an Incentive
Mystery Motivators
INCENTIVE
Celebrity Book
200 Club Coupon
Name:_________
Date: _________
Staff: _________
Principal’s 200 Club
Quilted 200 Matrix
Principal’s 200 Club School
Elementary Data
Elementary School
120
100
104
82
80
60
40
56
20
0
Year
One
Year
Two
Year
Three
Office Referrals
for Classroom
Disruptions
Average Nub. Daily Office
Referrals
Total Number Office
Referrals
Elementary School
5
4.4
4
3
Office Referrals
2
1.2
1
0
First
Amonth
Eighteenth
Month
Principal’s 200 Club School Junior
High Data
Junior High Tardies
250
Junior High
300
250
217
148
150
Tardie First
Term
100
Total
Total
200
0
Year One
120
Year
One
Year Two
Junior High
Suspensions
181
Office Referrals
Discipline
50
0
Year One
Year Two
Totals
109
100
Year
Two
Year
Three
Junior High School Referrals
150
Total
184
200
150
100
50
0
50
200
253
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
351
208
110
Discipline
Year 1
Year 2
81
Tardies
Is it working? See for
yourself!
Discipline Office Referrals
3000
2551
2500
1954
2000
1724
1500
1190
1000
383
500
0
01-'02 baseline
02-'03
03 - '04
'04 - '05
'05 - '06 to date
Time Cost for ODR’s
• 2001-2002
– 2551 X 15 min. (conservative estimate) = 38,265 = 637.75
hrs. = 106.33 days @ 6 hrs/day
• 2002 – 2003
– 1954 X15 min. = 29,310 min. = 488.5 hrs. = 81.4 days @ 6
hrs/day
• 2003-2004
– 1724 X15 min. = 25,860 min. = 431 hrs. = 71.8 days @ 6
hrs/day
• 2004 -2005
– 1190 X 15 min. = 17850 min. = 297 hrs. = 49 days @ 6
hrs/day
• Administrative time saved
– 57 days @ 6 hrs/day
Mrs. Mutner vs. The Lunch Lady
News Coverage
Similar Concept
Yes & No Program
Yes & No Classroom Management Program
1.Follow Your Teacher’s
Directions
2.Be in Your Seat When Bell
Rings
3.Keep Hands and Feet to Self &
Stay in Your Seat
4.Raise Your Hand to Speak
5.Have Pencil, Paper, Books &
Homework
6. Walk Down Halls
Pitcher
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App Store
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Changeable Mystery Motivators
X
X
X
Resources for Reading
http://www.abcstuff.com/items/MK0
05.html
1.
Give 2 or 3 per week
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Make them random
3.
Sometime back to back
4.
50% a Bonus for perfect performance
5.
Never let them color in a square if they
didn’t earn it
6.
Only Positive Comments in the
Comment section
Another Brand
Individual
Contracts
Homework
Appropriate
Behavior
Not Being
Tardy
Social Skills
Training
Group Rules
Not Engaging
in an
Inappropriate
Behavior
Test Results
Trying a
Difficult Task
Helping Others
Team WorkAcademics
[CITATION] Mystery motivator: An effective and time efficient intervention
LA Moore, AM Waguespack, KF Wickstrom, JC Witt, GR … - School Psychology Review,
1994
[CITATION] Using the Mystery Motivator to improve child bedtime compliance
KE Robinson, SM Sheridan - 1998 - Dept. of Educational Psychology, University of
Utah
Mystery Motivator as an Intervention to Promote Homework Completion and Accuracy
MMR Madaus, TJ Kehle, J Madaus, MA Bray - School Psychology International, 2003 - spi.sagepub.com
An intervention to reduce disruptive behaviours in children with brain injury
L Mottram, P Berger-Gross - Pediatric Rehabilitation, 2004 - dx.doi.org
[BOOK] Preventing Problem Behaviors: A Handbook of Successful Prevention Strategies
B Algozzine, P Kay - 2001 - print.google.com
Outcomes of a school-based mental health program for youth with serious emotional disorders
KE Robinson, LJ Rapport - Psychology in the
Enhancing Assignment Perceptions in Students with Mathematics Learning Disabilities by Including …
ME Wildmon, CH Skinner, TS Watson, LS Garrett - School Psychology Quarterly, 2004 Augmented self-modeling as a treatment for children with selective mutism
TJ Kehle, MR Madaus, VS Baratta, MA Bray - Journal of School Psychology, 1998 - ingentaconnect.com
... Three children with selective mutism were treated with a packaged procedure that
incorporated self-modeling, mystery motivators, self-reinforcement, stimulus
The impact of home-school notes used with the Mystery Motivators on targeted classroom behaviors of …
DM LeBlanc - 1996 - University of Southern Mississippi
TEACHING DISRESPECTFUL STUDENTS
JA Dennee, JI Byrd, I Advisor - uwstout.edu
... It was comprised of precision requests in which the child was positively
reinforced with mystery motivators. The disruptive behavior ...
Take The Mystery Motivator Home And Hang It Up
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Generic Yogurt
Lenny and Squiggy
Why Psychotherapy Doesn’t Take As Long
As It Used To
Me
Homework Teams
Coach-Encourages the team, peer tutor
Manager-Collect homework material, grade it, and
records results
Score Keeper -Peer tutoring, and re-grade the
homework assignments
Olympia, D., Sheridan, S., & Jenson, W. R. (1994).
Using student-managed interventions to increase
homework completion and accuracy. Journal of
Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 85-99.
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