Overview
School administrators and teachers, are feeling increased pressure to manage student behavior.
In particular the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) of 2001 requires schools to insure that all
students meet a minimum standard.
To this end many schools and school districts have started training their teachers on how to document
behavior while utilizing behavior management. The hope and promise of behavior management training programs
is that schools will be able to identify students with special needs early on and get students the help
that they need. Behavioral documentation provides schools with a record of previous efforts.
There are two critical challenges to successfully implementing behavior management and behavioral documentation.
No Time
The first challenge is providing teachers with a practical, simple way to do the documentation. Teachers
who feel overworked and underpaid often feel they are spending more time doing paperwork than teaching.
For the few teachers who are willing to invest the necessary time, this usually means writing notes by hand at the
end of each day. Hand written notes are time consuming, inconsistent, and sometimes even illegible.
With all of these problems, even those teachers who start writing notes with the best of intentions usually
stop when they don't see results.
No Reporting and Analysis
The second challenge, assuming that behaviors have actually been documented, is leveraging that information.
Simply documenting student behavior is not enough if you don't do something with it. If you can't easily
retrieve and analyze the information that has been collected then it doesn't do you any good to collect it
in the first place. Handwritten notes, or even Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, are not going to help
in identifying and helping students that need special attention.
For behavior management to work it must not only be possible to readily retrieve information about a student,
but also to compare that student to their class, school, and grade level. It must be possible to normalize
the information on a student by comparing classes and schools to each other. Only then can a behavior management
program be effective in bringing teachers, parents, specialists, and administrators together to address students
needs.
No Return on Investment
Schools and school districts that have already started behavior management programs have made a significant
investment. These programs involve training, materials, substitute teachers, and more. This is a tremendous
amount of time and money to invest if the programs can't be made effective. BehaviorNotes.com can help you
achieve a return on your behavior management program investment.
BehaviorNotes.com is the missing piece to any behavior management program. By providing a quick and
efficient way to capture, report on, and analyze behavior, BehaviorNotes.com can help make your behavior
management program a success.
Quick
With BehaviorNotes.com teachers no longer have to allocate a portion of their day to behavioral documentation.
Routine incidents can be entered in seconds, when they occur. The information gets captured without a significant
investment of additional time. This means having more time to teach, while still being able to participate in
behavior management.
Consistent
Using BehaviorNotes.com means that behavioral documentation is done on the computer, not with pen and paper.
Common fields like participants, behavior, and interventions are selected from drop-down lists not entered free form.
This means that information is kept consistent, not just from incident to incident, but from teacher to teacher.
Available
BehaviorNotes.com means being able to access your information from wherever you are. As a web based application,
as opposed to an application that runs on your desktop, BehaviorNotes.com eliminates the need to collect documentation
from each teacher and collate it together. With BehaviorNotes.com the behavioral documentation is entered by teachers
via a web browser and available to teachers and administrators from a web browser.
Results
Once behavior has been documented it is only a click away. BehaviorNotes.com enables effective behavior management.
From detailed reports on a student to charts comparing schools, BehaviorNotes.com allows the information teachers
have captured to be leveraged.
In one easy step BehaviorNotes.com will eliminate the barriers that would otherwise prevent a behavior management
program from being a success. All of the training, time, money, and materials that went into developing a behavior
management program can be put to work with BehaviorNotes.com. Not only will BehaviorNotes.com
provide the tools needed to justify a behavior management investment, but more importantly it will enable you, the
teachers and administrators, to identify and help students that need extra help.
For more information about how BehaviorNotes.com can help your behavior management program and fill your behavioral documentation needs please see the following:
