Description:
Highly qualified Behavior Intervention Specialist with knowledge and skills necessary to assist individuals, groups and systems through the application of positive behavior supports. The Behavior Specialist helps coordinate Functional Assessments of Behavior and Behavior Intervention Plan that address students’ inappropriate behaviors and provide a means to help the students become more academically successful. Behavior Intervention Specialist also provides classroom and school-wide behavior management
strategies.
Job Summary: Assist staff in: defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents.
Facilitate team meetings with the identified student’s teachers and parents as needed
Facilitate team meetings that: design Behavior interventions Plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction/support, and ethical issues;
Facilitate School-wide Positive Behavioral Support professional development including factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice.