1. Crisis Intervention

School Plans

Classroom Plans

Individual Plans

2. Elimination Potential Power Struggles

• Use, privacy, eye contact and proximity

• Ignore the last hook

• Use listening or acknowledging

• Use agreeing and deferring

• Inform student of the impending conflict

• Offer the door

– Discipline with Dignity (R.Curwink A. Medler)

3. Crisis Strategies

Element of Crisis Plan Development

– Determine what kind of crises you might encounter

– Will you need help? Who?

– How will you get help you will need?

– What do you want the other students to do?

– Prepare yourself to give up teaching

– Choose the best strategy

– Move to prevention

• Discipline with Dignity (R.Curwink A. Medler)

4. Class Crisis Plan

• THINGS FOR STUDENTS TO DO

• 1.

• 2.

• THINGS FOR TEACHERS TO DO

• 1.

• 2.

• THINGS FOR HELPERS TO DO

• 1.

• 2.

– Discipline with Dignity (R.Curwink A. Medler)

5. Life Space Interview
(Nick Long, 1991)

9 ways students exhibit passive aggressive behavior

– Temporary deafness

– Temporary blindness

– Delayed response

– Temporary brain damage

– Request help

– Misplace objects

– Talk slowly

– Show friendship through pain

6. Life Space Interview
(Nick Long, 1991)

5 ways staff exhibit passive aggressive behavior

– Offer help

– Forgetfulness

– Redline his/her paper corrections

– Talk slowly

– Ask difficult questions

7. Life Space Interview
(Nick Long, 1991)

• Intervening with the passive aggressive student

– P.A. can create in you feelings of anger

– Goal of P.A. is to get the teacher out of control

– P.A. is genuine anger in a concealed form

– Verbalize observations out loud

– Conference with the student if P.A. is repetitive

– Classroom meetings and group discussions

– Family therapy not indicated

– Model appropriate response to anger

8. Life Space Interview
(Nick Long, 1991)

• Step One: Focus on the Incident

• Step Two: Students in Crisis need to talk

• Step Three: Find the Central Issue and Select

• Step Four: Choose a solution Based on Values

• Step Five: Plan for Success

• Step Six: Get ready to resume

9. Comprehensive Schoolwide Plan

• Establish effective behavioral support team

• Design curriculum for teaching students to be caring self-managers

• Train staff

• Monitor behavior using a referral form

• Evaluate the program using a survey

• Adjust the program

– U.S. Dept. of Ed. (2000). Safeguarding our children: An action guide)