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Weisz reviews several free and useful web resources for school staff and parents.
A good place to start is the intervention central website by Jim Wright. This site provides programs to create behavior report cards individualized to different children and concerns. There are manuals and booklets for bully prevention, ADHD assessment, curriculum based measurements, peer tutoring, response to intervention resources, and so forth. If a school psychologist, teacher or parent can think of something that you need, check here and see if it’s already on his site.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports is a program that trains and assists schools to develop school-wide positive, proactive and evidence-based practices. There are plenty of useful articles, powerpoints and other items here.
Pbis.org
The behavior advisor is a useful and wide-ranging site about behavior modification developed by Dr. Mac.
http://www.behavioradvisor.com/
For a variety of useful tools for teachers, such as a very nice Daily report card check out the busy teachers café site.
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/
Polyxo.com is a great source of resources for behavior assessment and planning.
http://polyxo.com/
For both parents and teachers, this site has excellent forms to download that help evaluate the function of a problem behavior, monitoring forms and improvement and planning forms. This would help in setting up functional assessment and behavior improvement teams in schools. It can also be used with less of a formal structure by individual teachers or parents.
http://fifa.fmhi.usf.edu/
The worksheet place is another great source of ready-made worksheets related to behavior, helping children reflect about their behavior and track behavior improvement. Setting goals and character development sheets are also available on this site.
http://worksheetplace.com/Behavior/behavior.htm
2 comments:
Thanks for the links! I'm a doctoral student in school psych and I always share them with my classmates, who have found previous links really useful.
The pyloxo (I'm probably butchering that spelling) link and the last link didn't work for me today.
Chelsea (and/or) Jonathon,
Thanks for the comment. I am glad you find the links useful. Great. I just tried the 2 links you had trouble with, they seem to work now.
Where are you getting your doctorate?
Feel free to submit ideas, topics you are learning about, opinions, etc. I'd love to include them in my blog or podcast. By the way did you listen to my podcasts, yet? I have links to them on the right side and you can access them at itunes (school psychology podcast with dr. gaston weisz.
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