Appropriate Physical Intervention (API). Never really, had I ever really considered that this would be a necessary area of my professional development as a teacher. However, in my current setting as a teacher of students with special needs, it was quickly becoming apparent that this type of training would be very useful in my classroom almost everyday.
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At the beginning of the year during some of our training and PD, I remember learning about the Crisis Cycle. I didn't know then, really how crucial knowing and understanding this concept would be to my teaching and everyday classroom management.
It didn't take me to long to start to look at student behaviours (positive & negative) and see their place on the Crisis Cycle and being able to identify and predict behaviours from my students. As I learn more about my students each day and develop deeper relationships with them and learning what their triggers may be that bring them to the escalation and crisis phase, I can use my knowledge of my students and of the Crisis Cycle to use specific strategies with individual students to help them de-escalate, stabilize and return to baseline. I have also noticed that as my relationships build with my students the longer students are able to stay in the baseline phase, or the quicker I can respond and get them back down to baseline if they have started to escalate. This is definitely as skill that will follow me to all my future teaching endeavours! I am so thankful for having learned this. |
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