Prevention, Teaching & Responding: A Planning Team Process for Supporting Students with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties in Regular Education.

This manual provides guidelines and forms for implementing a planning team approach to support students with emotional and behavioral difficulties in regular education settings, developed as part of a 3-year federally funded project to enhance the capability of 30 Vermont public schools. Following an introduction, a student profile is reviewed from the points of view of the regular educator, parent, student, and special educator. The first section discusses establishing the student support team, with information on obtaining family input, identifying age appropriate needs, and reviewing team membership and working together. The second section addresses identifying student strengths and needs. Subsections cover: the study history; major areas of educational emphasis and student goals; factors that impact on the student's ability to learn; and challenging behaviors that need to be addressed. The third section is on developing student support plans and includes guidelines for encouraging replacement behaviors and appropriate responses to challenging behaviors. Information sections of the manual are supplemented with typical viewpoints and with sample completed forms in reference to a specific case. Additional sections provide evaluation procedures and an overview of the support plan. An appendix includes 37 blank forms used in the program. (DB)