AOTA Timed Agenda

8:30-9:00

• Challenges & Importance of Preschool & K Teachers in Improving Behavior
• Joint role of Teachers and School Therapists in Addressing Behavior
• Meet who is here activity
• References & Resources Regarding school behavioral strategies

9:00-9:30

• Relaxation & Improving Behavior
• Tense & Relax Muscles
• Mindfulness and Progressive Relaxation Activities
• Movement & Break Activities

9:30-10:00

• Environmental Adaptations Video
• Seat separate
• Optimally stable sitting
• Pivotal Response Training

10:15-10:45

• Head Start Class Activity Video
• Teaching to varied learning styles
• Hot Cross Buns activity
• Ten little hotdogs movement break

10:45-11:15

• Adaptive Equipment & Techniques
• Minimize distractions: Noise Canceling Headphones
• Minimize distractions: Study Carols
• Teaching boundaries with trays & carpet squares

11:15-11:45

• Increase salience of teaching cues
• Visual Support Strategies for Daily Schedule
• Plan-Do-Review
• Sticker Chart Implementation

1:00-1:30

• Set clear class behavioral expectations
• Give feedback and rewards regarding behavior
• Two leaders, one leads one lets him lead
• Enabling the leader, happy hearts, purple hearts

1:30-2:00

• ABC Behavior Review
• FAB Turtle Strategy
• Determining the most effective reinforcement
• Reinforce attempts

2:10-2:40

• Intersperse Easy Activities with challenging tasks to improve frustration tolerance
• Applying sensory matched preferred Non-Contingent Reinforcement (NCR)
• Practice doing a Sensory Functional Behavioral Analysis
• Coping card to Target Disruptive Behavior

2:40-3:10

• Movement embedded in class jobs
• Parental permission and teacher rules for environmental adaptations
• Home Programs and next year teacher suggestions
• Summary, Questions & Conclusion