Positive Behavior Incentive System

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As I stated in PBIS 101, Module 1, before enrolling, I had little prior knowledge what Positive Behavior Incentive System entailed. I was aware that PBIS was a process of developing a positive approach towards behavior interventions, which incorporated the entire student body, community, administration, and faculty. As a Special Education Teacher, I have taught at numerous levels, such as fundamentals, resource, college prep, and accelerated each having unique individuals with different personalities, necessities, and beliefs. Throughout my years as an academic instructor, I have been implementing a rewards system in my class to motivate and improve student behaviors and their classroom performance. However, I was searching for something …show more content…
When verbal praise and simple rewards are not enough to change behaviors, we must question why a particular student requires additional extrinsic motivators. Questions regarding the reasons behind their inappropriate actions, like what are students missing, what do they really need from me as their teachers, and why are they misbehaving, appear. In the situation where continual behavioral concerns arise, behavior contracts, involving teachers, students, and parents/guardians, create a personalized positive behavior incentive program. Each member of the team has a specific role in the proposal's success and a team effort is involved. Agreements establish personalized goals, differentiation, specific interventions, and accountability with a reward system designed to motivate a particular student. Usually, an individualized plan begins with collecting baseline data of the targeted behaviors and antecedents. Identifying the precursors of particular behaviors enables the team to problem-solve and tailor strategies to systematically modify a student’s …show more content…
Initially, students may respond positively to the imposed behavior plan, because it is new and exciting. After a certain amount of time, students may expect rewards and look forward towards receiving the incentives more than they want to learn. Rewards then outshine academic achievement devaluing the effectiveness of the incentives. Looking at the PBIS program in a different perspective, people could wonder if the enticements are bribes for good behaviors. In addition to the idea of bribing students, financially having a school-wide positive reinforcement program is expensive and must be budgeted for before the program begins and for the length of the program. When your schools population is 2,300 and you are rewarding students even weekly over the school year, the expenditures could easily exceed $50,000. With districts cutting funds from the basic programs, locating this money diverts it from another