MIEBD Summer Institute

"Practical Tools for Meeting the Needs of Students with Challenging Behaviors"

Using Skill-Based Assessment to Make Decisions for Students with Challenging Behavior
Meeting the needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders is contingent upon identifying realistic behavioral goals and implementing appropriate interventions. Behavioral psychology provides well-documented procedures for identifying target behaviors. However, it fails to provide a contextual framework for understanding and selecting developmentally appropriate targets. Developmental theory provides a conceptual model for intervention based on "normal" development and focused on growth-based, rather than pathology-based, approaches. Join us to learn a developmental assessment framework and a model for linking assessment to intervention. This workshop will provide instruction on how to use the Behavioral Objective Sequence, a practical and critical tool for integrating functional assessment into a model for determining students’ level of social development, and for preparing intervention plans that are effective and developmentally appropriate. 

Agenda:

• Characteristics of Students with Problem Behaviors: Contributing Factors and Implications for Assessment and Intervention

• Assessing Developmental Level of Social Performance: Identifying Developmentally Appropriate Objectives with the BOS

• The Curriculum for Teaching Prosocial Competencies

• Preparing Assessment-based and Developmentally Appropriate Intervention Plans

• Preparing Coordinated School-Community Agency Intervention Plans

• Demonstration of the BOS software

Sheldon Braaten, Ph.D.

Sheldon Braaten has worked with children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral disorders for over 25 years. He began his career as a therapist at a mental health center, and then served as a special education teacher followed by 18 years as the administrator of a special school for adolescents.  He served as the Meeks Distinguished Professor of Special Education at Ball State University, Muncie, IN (1997 to 2006) and continues as an adjunct professor at BSU and also at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. Dr. Braaten has taught for the University of Minnesota, Portland State University, Portland, OR; Hamline University, St. Paul, MN; California State University, San Bernardino, CA; Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC; and as national faculty for the doctoral program in special education at Utah State University, Logan, UT. 

He is the cofounder of the Minnesota Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (MNCCBD), serving in many roles including president and is a past president and governor of the International Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders.  

Dr. Braaten is the author of numerous publications involving program design and development, assessment, intervention planning, policy development and educational reform issues. He served as Executive Editor of Preventing School Failure for 12 years and serves as a consulting editor for other journals. He served as a consultant to many school districts in the U.S. and has made has made hundreds of presentations at state, national and international conferences and numerous presentations for school districts, organizations and other groups. 

As founder and Executive Director of the Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents, he initiated the International Child and Adolescent conference in 1982, which continues as a biennial event. Dr. Braaten coordinated the development of transdisciplinary training models for Indiana and Minnesota which continue to provide a foundation for training of teachers and school teams. The Institute sponsors the annual Indiana Conference on services for students with EBD and offers training to service providers of children and youth throughout the US, including courses for credit. His current research and training interests include skill-based assessment and curriculum-based interventions. He also pursues interests in public policies related to practices in education, mental health and juvenile justice and their implications for improving outcomes for all at risk students who are struggling at home, in schools and the community.

August 2-6, 2010

Roseville, Minnesota

Arnold Goldstein Memorial Library

Key Dates

August

2  Day 1 - Using Skill-Based Assessment to Make Decisions for Students with Challenging Behaviors

3  Day 2 - Teaching with Web Technology

4  Day 3  - AM: Substance Abuse Prevention

PM: Motivating the Reluctant (and Challenged) Reader

5  Day 4 - FBA/RTI: Tools to Teach Pro-social Skills

6  Day 5 - More Tools to Ensure Your Efforts Pay Off for Students

Sponsors

Professional Learning Board

Credits & CEUs

National Association of School Psychologists

Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents is approved by NASP to provide continuing professional development credits for school psychologists.

APS provider #1038

Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents is an approved Continuing Education Provider.

CE provider #CEP-218