Confrontational/Defensive
Tier I Interventions for Confrontational/Defensive
Before you start, a few important points:
- Try multiple interventions
- Each intervention should be tried for a minimum of 4 weeks, & more than 1 intervention may be implemented at the same time
- Collect and track specific data on each intervention tried & its effect
- If your data indicates no progress after a minimum of 6 months, you may consider moving to tier 2 interventions
Interventions:
- Avoid power struggles
- Card Flip
- Explain assignment
- Give choices
- Ignore
- Logical consequence
- Redirection
- Speak with student in hallway
- Take a break
- Teach conflict resolution skills
- Teach coping skills
- Teach relationship skills
- Teach relaxation techniques
- Teach social skills
- Use calm neutral tone
