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An introductory video that outlines the basics of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) for students with autism in general education classrooms. A perfect starting point for educators new to this approach.

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PBIS Forum 2018- Using PBIS to Support Students with Autism in General Education Classrooms

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Research resource to share with school staff, with succinct explanation of the role of PBIS for students with ASD. PBIS was endorsed within IDEA as a preferred form of intervention for managing the challenging behavior of students with disabilities. This resource explains how PBIS works as part of the Applied Behavioral Analysis practice.

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Offers a quick overview of PBIS and 9 simple interventions for teachers to use in their classroom. These interventions apply to all students, including those with ASD, at a PBIS Tier 1 level.

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Positive behavior supports and interventions (PBIS) are strategies that schools use to improve student behavior. PBIS provides effective interventions that guide positive behaviors and create environments to help all students succeed.

What are behavioral supports and interventions?

The PBIS framework fits within a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) and interventions that allow educators to target and aid all students, regardless of their needs.

This structure of interventions provides individualized support for students who have more robust behavioral needs. Within the multi-tiered system, students with disabilities receiving assistance from an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or special education programs have consistent guidance. This also includes students with autism spectrum disorders or developmental disabilities who may need Tier three support.

The ABCs of Behavior Assessment

Behavior assessment provides key data to inform effective PBIS. Teachers typically know their students very well and continue to learn more through observing challenging behaviors within their classroom. Proper analysis of behaviors can give educators insight into the diverse needs within a school or classroom and help them create appropriate PBIS.

One standard format of observing and recording behavior uses the ABCs of behavior assessment. This method of data analysis is often used within special education programs to assess and respond to ongoing student needs. The "ABC" refers to:

After using the ABC method to notice challenging behaviors, the next step is implementing the appropriate positive behavioral interventions to avoid misbehavior and build a warm, focused, and friendly school and classroom culture. With the necessary interventions, all students can be prepared to learn and excel academically.

9 Examples of Positive Behavioral Interventions

Here are nine specific examples of PBIS interventions that you can use in your classroom to reinforce positive student behavior and expectations.

Set clear routines for everything you would like students to do in your classroom, rather than assuming that students know your expectations. Be sure to demonstrate how you would like things to be done. Although it can be tedious, this is key to building a classroom environment that is consistent and predictable.

When building and executing classroom routines, remain explicit so that students clearly understand your expectations. Give students multiple opportunities to practice classroom routines, provide ongoing support for routines and behaviors, reinforce expected behaviors, and explain the consequences if students do not meet expectations.

For example, you may create hand signals for common student requests like getting water or going to the restroom or a simple gesture to use when students should wait for their turn to speak.

At times, students may become overwhelmed or overstimulated, leading to unregulated behavior choices. Students may benefit from a three- to five-minute break to reset and get focused. Consider allowing students to rest and reset before a starting new activity or transitioning to a new task.

Use breaks as a time for self-management and self-regulation. Self-management allows students to pause, reflect, and adjust problematic behavior. Helping students build these skills will let you get back to teaching and learning as quickly as possible. Breaks also help students build skills to self-regulate by assisting the students in determining when their behavior is impulsive and getting back in the mindset to learn.

For example, you can use breaks for meditation, breathing exercises, or movement exercises that help center and settle the student's mind and body.

3. Silent Signals

Create silent signals to remind your students to pay attention and remain on task. These signals can be for your whole class, or you can establish unique signals for a particular student who needs extra behavioral support.

Silent signals are an effective intervention because they quickly reinforce behavioral expectations with minimal disruption. You can come up with signals for your class, or you all can create signals that work best for your community together. Additionally, you can create signals to express your expectations for your students, and you can also come up with signals to allow your students to express their needs to you.

4. Proximity

Proximity is another helpful silent intervention for teachers to redirect student behavior. By getting physically closer to a student, you can get them on-task without giving verbal instructions.

Use proximity when teaching a lesson, during independent work, or in transitions to a new task.

5. Quiet Corrections

When students are off task, they often seek attention. Teachers need to remove the stage when addressing them. Quiet corrections allow you to control the situation and keep the public stage out of the student interaction.

6. Special Tasks

Special tasks will give the student a chance to reset and come back and join the class. Consider ways to encourage leadership and peer interaction by pairing the student up with a classmate as a helper on an academic task. This communicates that you are willing to provide support while encouraging interactions that help build community.

7. Positive Phrasing

Do this when establishing class rules. For example, try phrasing a class rule by saying, "we always walk in the hall" instead of saying, "don't run in the halls."

Here's another example teachers can use if a student is not completing their homework. Instead of saying, "if you don't complete your homework tonight, you will stay inside and complete it at recess tomorrow," say, "if you finish your homework tonight, you will get to go outside and play with your friends." Both express the need to complete homework, but the second statement can encourage a behavior change more effectively.

8. Behavior Statements

Simply state the appropriate behaviors you want to see or acknowledge students who meet expectations right away. This rewards positive behavior and repeats the expectation for students who may not have heard the first time.

For example, when students are lining up and all of them are not ready, you can quickly state the specific behavior that some students are doing correctly. In no time, other students will mimic that behavior to receive positive praise. It is essential to acknowledge and praise appropriate behaviors in your classroom constantly.

9. Tangible Reinforces

Get Started with Positive Behavior Supports & Interventions

Teachers, staff, and administrators all have challenging jobs. We must guide and mold the future leaders of our communities towards academic excellence. When adequate behavior supports and interventions are in place, educators can discourage and avoid disruptive behavior that detracts from teaching and learning.

Unified Classroom® Behavior Support helps educators manage social and emotional learning (SEL) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), like PBIS, to help improve student well-being and school culture and achieve more equitable outcomes. With tools, strategies, and resources designed to support your school team, you can transform your school culture with practical implementations of PBIS and provide behavioral support for all students.

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9 Examples of Positive Behavior Supports & Interventions

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As challenging student behaviors increase, teachers can turn to positive behavior support & interventions (PBIS) to encourage positive change.

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A comprehensive list of evidence based resources, including modules, videos, and visual displays. This resources offer strategies for 1) defining and teaching expected behavior 2) arranging the classroom 3) monitoring and acknowledging students 4) responding to misbehavior and 5) selecting and monitoring interventions

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An essential collection of tools and software that assists educators in tracking and analyzing the effectiveness of PBIS strategies. These resources help in making informed decisions based on students' progress and behavior changes.

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PBIS World is in no way affiliated, associated, or connected with any other website, entity, organization, or federal, state, local, or other government agency, department, program, policy, organization, or initiative.

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Resources include image-based resources with incremental steps for many routine activities, social stories for increasing understanding and comfort, and concrete explanations of common rules.

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Add a reward following a desired/target behavior. Reinforcement may come in the form of a pre-determined incentive plan, a token reinforcement system, a token economy, or a self-monitoring system with an agreed upon reward.

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Autism Resources / Incentive Plans and Reinforcement

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A simple demonstration of the implementation of a token economy, with regular and consistent positive feedback and a reward at the end.

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Option for eliminating pushback from teachers and roadblocks for students regarding paper-based PBIS systems. Teachers and staff all over the school can acknowledge positive student behavior from a mobile device, without creating or maintaining paper or physical tokens. Point totals are automatically tracked. Students can easily check and redeem rewards without frustration from lost rewards.

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PBIS Rewards is an affordable schoolwide PBIS management system that assists schools in their Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support program. The multi-device platform makes it easy to continuously recognize students for meeting behavior expectations from anywhere in the school, not just the classroom. And with added features like referral tracking, Check-In/Check-Out, and a teacher rewards system, PBIS Rewards helps to foster accountability and fidelity in your PBIS program.

Eliminate Paper Tickets & Increase Instructional Time!

No more fumbling around with torn up papers, cutting out reward documents, or keeping track of mountains of tickets. Go paperless with PBIS Rewards!

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Are you buried in paper tickets, tokens, and paws? Go digital with your schoolwide PBIS management. PBIS Rewards helps schools succeed with PBIS.

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School staff can share the token economy system with family members with a child with ASD, to facilitate homework completion or help the child complete morning routines without breakdowns and on time for school.