The target behavior is Dyslexia.
Week 6 – Final Project

· Points 25

Behavior Plan & Presentation
Throughout this course, you have been developing your skills in the areas of behavior interventions for students with special needs. You have had the opportunity to reflect on specific behavior characteristics and cultural influences on behavior, data collection techniques for documenting behavior, and formal and informal functional assessment tools.

The purpose of this Final Project is the culmination of the learning achieved in this course through a real-world application of the content. This summative assessment supports your achievement of Course Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and the MASE Program Learning Outcomes 4, 6, and 8.

For this assignment, you will be assuming the role of a special educator and will create a behavior plan. As you have read in the Instructor Guidance and throughout this course, a behavior plan

· Provides more intensive intervention and monitoring.

· Increases support around the student’s specific needs.

· Provides an individualized behavior plan which becomes part of the individualized education program (IEP).

· Addresses targeted issues in a specific functional and evidence-based manner.

· Involves active collaboration with teachers, support staff, the student, and parents.

· Helps teachers to address behaviors and issues consistently across subjects, rooms, and sessions.

Bridging this real-life experience with the theories of instruction in the virtual course environment, this assignment mirrors a career building experience.

Instructions: Using support from your assigned reading, the Instructor Guidance, and the discussions, submit the following for evaluation.

In previous coursework, you have learned about the process of developing an IEP and the participation of a multidisciplinary team to, in part, plan and develop key goals around the student’s areas of strengths and weaknesses. It is important to access previous video examples, discussions, and other coursework as you develop this plan. You have been collecting these web addresses in your link-library. This would be a perfect time to access them.

In this example, you will focus on one document that is written by the team and that will become part of the student’s IEP. This document, known as the Behavior Plan, specifically identifies and addresses behaviors considered to be inappropriate and/or dangerous. It is a plan that changes the environment to shape a student’s behavior in a positive manner. Replacement behaviors are then identified and designed for the purpose of changing the inappropriate behaviors to something more appropriate. Also included in this plan are positive behavioral interventions, strategies, and supports.

Use the below guidelines and attached rubric to create the Behavior Plan. If you have questions about the assignment or the rubric, please contact your Instructor using the Ask Your Instructor discussion before the due date.

Content Expectations: (Note: There are two parts to this assignment.)

Part One: Using the rubric attached, complete the attached Positive Behavior Intervention Plan Preview the document to include:

· Demographic information

· Prevention: Environmental factors and necessary changes

· Alternatives: Functional factors and new functionally-equivalent behaviors to teach and support

· Effective reaction: Reactive strategies to positively promote change

· Outcome: Measurable behavioral goals and analysis

· Communication: Communication provisions

· Participation: List the collaborative participants in plan development

Part Two: Narrative—Submit a separate document that includes the following:

· Terms:Describe the target behavior to be addressed in this plan using observable terms to describe.

· Relevancy: Analyze how the process of creating a behavior plan is relevant to your current profession or future professional goals.

· Reflection:Reflect on the process of creating a behavior plan. Include elements of observation, collaboration, parent engagement, and student input.

The Behavior Plan

· Must be one to two double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

· Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

· Exhibit meticulous use of grammar, spelling, organization, and usage throughout your submission.

· Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to ensure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion. Next, submit your document no later than Day 7.

Next Steps: Review and Submit the Assignment Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to ensure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion. Next, submit your document no later than Day 7.

Recommendation: The MASE program provides the opportunity for you to create an online portfolio that can be used in your career development and professional practice. Throughout the program, you will have various assessments that can be included in this e-portfolio, and these will be finalized in the Capstone course of the MASE program, ESE699. You may select this assignment and subsequent coursework to include as artifacts. Therefore, it is strongly encouraged you save your coursework on a flash-drive, such as a USB removable drive, or store in a cloud-based option, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or other similar applications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your final project.