{"id":1794,"date":"2011-03-22T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:29:20","slug":"tip-for-teachers-conducting-a-student-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/tip-for-teachers-conducting-a-student-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"RTI Tip for Teachers Conducting a Student Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/19103132.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2458\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"RTI in the Classroom\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/19103132-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/19103132-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/19103132-1024x667.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When  students present behaviors that consistently interfere with teaching  and learning, school staff must objectively identify and quantify those  behaviors. The teacher, or another team member, accomplishes this by  conducting one or more systematic twenty to thirty minute student  observations. This identifies the current rate of behavior, referred to  as baseline data. The factors that occur directly before the behavior,  or antecedents, as well as any resulting post behavior consequences, are  also noted. Two of the most bothersome behaviors are prioritized for intervention purposes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an easy way for educators to <strong>teach while conducting a student observation<\/strong> at the same time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Place 2 pieces of masking tape on your wrist, one for the behavior that most interferes with learning and the other for the second behavior of concern. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Number the tape 1 and 2, respectively and make ink slash marks on the corresponding appropriate piece of tape every time that particular behavior occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of the observation, record the frequency as noted on the tapes for a baseline so that you can compare it to future data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>From Professional Learning Board\u2019s online continuing education course for teachers: <a href=\"..\/?p=81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RTI \u2013 Using Metaphors to Change Behavior<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  When  students present behaviors that consistently interfere with teaching  and learning, school staff must objectively identify and quantify those  behaviors. The teacher, or another team member, accomplishes this by  conducting one or more systematic twenty to thirty minute student  observations. This identifies the current rate of behavior, referred [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[162,159,163,161,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24927,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/24927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}