This consultation and training on designing and implementing Behavior Intervention Plans includes how to:

• pinpoint the behaviors that most need to be changed;

• identify causal factors of behaviors;

• identify the strengths that will help a student improve his/her behavior;

• name the weaknesses that are contributing to the troubling behavior;

• observe a student’s classroom behavior for clues that will help develop a useful behavior plan;

• increase positive change by writing behavioral objectives that clearly define what behaviors are and are not desired;

• discover school resources one can use in creating a successful management plan;

• prepare the best possible intervention plan by using both cognitive and behavioral approaches;

• assess if an intervention is working; and

• change a student’s plan as his/her behavior improves.