A Behavior Intervention Plan is developed with the team of people who will be working with a student with behavioral issues/concerns. It should state what the target behaviors are that need to changed, such as, calling out, keeping hands to self, etc. Then it should explain how the behavior will be changed and what the replacement behavior will be. Lets take “calling out” as a target behavior, the desired behavior is to have the student raise his/her hand and wait to be called on.

The interventions/procedures should be listed next. For calling out, an intervention may be a verbal reminder to use their hand. The plan should also list any changes in the environment that need to happen, signs or visual prompts provided to help the student remember the appropriate behavior etc. It should also list any type of reinforcement to be earned, both positive and negative. There are many components to BIP’s if done correctly. You can get sample ones off the web to get you started. (see below)

The following is from about.com:

Under Federal legal mandates such as the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) students with behavioral disabilities are protected by supports such as Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA), Behavior Intervention Plans, and Behavior goals in their Individual Education Plans (IEP).

Basically, the plan should be designed so that everyone working with a student is consistent with expectations and interventions; helping the child to maintain appropriate behaviors throughout their school day.

A behavior intervention plan is a personalized plan designed for one specific student to correct one specific behavior. I have 3 different behavior intervention plans going in my classroom of 8 right now. They are each very different, however, each student is doing really well with the idea. An example, one of my students like to touch other people. The behavior is touching, the correction is obviously for the student not to touch anyone but himself. When he feels he needs to touch someone, he touches his face. This lets me know he is having an issue and we need to talk. If he does this 5 times in one hour *the touching is severe* he gets 10 minutes of talking time. YES it should be positive!!!

A behavior intervention plan is a federally mandated plan that must be created following a functional analysis assessment if a student has behavior that is impeding his/ her learning, the learning of others, is assaultive, or seriously maladaptive. By law the BIP is based on the philisophy of positive behavior supports and must be positive. There is a less rigorous behavior plan, called a behavior support plan that does not require a formal behavior assessment that is also based on the philosophy of positive behavior supports and is legally mandated in the state of California.

A behavior intervention plan is now called a behavior support plan, and is used for regular ed students as well as special ed. It is supposed to help support the positive behaviors and eliminate the negative ones, such as giving rewards for raising your hand and waiting to be called on, but I find that most regular ed teachers don’t have the time to implement them when they only have the students for 45 minutes a day.

A behavior intervention plan points out a maladaptive behavior, or group of behaviors and agrees to alternatives to replace the maladaptive behavior. There should not be consequences attached to it.

a b.i.p.is meant to help someone who is antisocial. it can be positive,but should let the person know that some behavior will have consequences.