Jace Flores Student Teacher Blog

Something we covered with Professor Phuong was the concepts of a Functional Behavioral Assessment and Progress Monitoring. Above is a picture of the Progress Monitoring I did with a student of mine. The idea of Progress Monitoring is you take a student who could be doing better in some regard, identify what specifically you want to accomplish in improving them, and essentially test out ways to get that student where you want them to be. So for example with my Progress Monitoring effort I wanted the student to be better focused on the work she had while simultaneously not being overbearing with controlling every social interaction she had. Based on this premise I tried out different ways to get her to have better results with focusing on her work while still overall respecting her social life with her adjacent best friend. The Progress Monitoring only went on for a week so the results were not incredibly conclusive, but it was a taste of putting the ideas that Professor Phuong mentioned into practice. If I spent more time on this I would have done multiple trials of each idea to see what worked best and to better scrutinize the difference in work focus and quality. I will say, however, that from what I observed there was fairly noticeable improvement when trying certain ideas.