Paige Kibbler

EDUC-K 306
Teaching Strategy: Emotional Behavioral Disorders

The teaching strategy I have decided to use to help a student in my band classroom with
an externalizing EBD is a form of continuous assessment and progress monitoring. The student
in question shows several disrupting behaviors during class, including walking around the room,
yelling answers or opinions at inappropriate times, and playing their instrument at inappropriate
times and in inappropriate manners. For this student, I have created a Band Journal, which
contains two parts. The left-hand pages are a grading rubric, which details the desired and
acceptable behaviors and provides a rating scale of 1-4 for each behavior. At the bottom is a
section where I can write in any specific comments or encouragements to the student. The righthand pages are mostly blank, and they serve as a journaling space where the student can write
about their experiences in band. They can write about what feelings they have, what might be
causing them, how they feel about their instrument or the music were playing, etc. The journal
is designed to give us a non-threatening means of communication with the student, give the
student direct and daily feedback on their behaviors, and to provide written documentation for
the students behavior.
The student is welcome to write in the journal at any point during the rehearsal, and when
class is over, they will bring the journal to me so I can read what theyve written on the right and
give them a score on the left. I always end class early anyways to allow the students to pack up
their instruments safely. We will have a few minutes where we can talk over specific moments
where they struggled, or showed wonderful behavior. If there are any larger issues that I notice
during class or written in the journal, I will have written evidence I can take to a school
counselor outside of class in an attempt to give help to the student. I will also keep a sum of the

scores from day to day, and as an extra motivation to the student, if they can reach a certain score
by the second-to-last concert, I will allow them to choose a piece from a group of several I have
selected to perform at the final concert. This will give them motivation throughout the year, and
hopefully give them something to be proud about at the end of the year.
Here is an example of two pages from the Band Journal:
Ms. Kibblers Concert Band

9/15/2016

Daily Behavior Assessment:

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Remaine X
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rehearsal
Raised
X
hand
before
speaking
Performe
X
d music
with
good
sounds
Listened
X
to
feedback
in
rehearsal
Teacher Comments:
I really appreciated seeing you in your seat
and respectfully raising your hand during
rehearsal today. You had very few issues
with talking out of turn, but you did disrupt
the class by making squawking noises on
your reed in the middle of rehearsal. When I

Journal Space:
(Potential Prompts)
How am I progressing on
my instrument?
How am I learning the
music?
How do I feel during
rehearsal?
Do I enjoy being in class?
What aggravates me about
band?
What can I do when Im
upset?
I think Im making progress on the
saxophone. I learned how to make
funny noises that sound like angry
birds on my mouthpiece. I showed
them to my friends during class,
and I played them really loud! I
like being in band because I dont
just have to sit quietly and still.
Ms. Kibbler says we can move
around as we play, and that music
is always followed by movement,
like foot-tapping or dancing. I got
frustrated today when no one knew
the answer to Ms. Kibblers
question about the composer of the
piece. Cant they see its written
right there on the music!? I ended
up shouting out the answer because
no one was answering correctly. I
felt good that I knew what to say,
but some of the flutes in front of

gave feedback to the ensemble, you were

generally attentive, and you improved as
class progressed. Keep up the good work!
Total Score: 12 of 16

me turned around and gave me

funny looks.