What We Do The Positive Approach to Student Success (PASS) Teacher provides services for students served through special education with significant emotional and behavioral needs. The purpose of the PASS program is to support students with severe behavior problems in a mainstream school environment. The PASS teacher provides intensive, individualized social skills instruction, monitors student social and emotional progress in the mainstream classroom and corrects/re-teaches replacement behaviors when necessary. Major Responsibilities and Duties:
Train mainstream staff how to:
Create classroom environment:
Create the T-chart of alternative behaviors developed by the student and teacher together and frequently review with the student. Maintain a Student notebook/portfolio for every student (updated weekly) that must include:
Teach the PASS redirection script to PASS students. Monitor student’s behavior in mainstream classrooms at required intervals. Maintain a monitoring clipboard for each staff member with a monitoring sheet, student T-charts and PASS FBA worksheet. Input monitoring data into the PASS tracker daily. Teach daily and/or weekly social skills lessons based on student and target behaviors, to increase and maintain positive, pro-social behaviors. Assist students in identifying emotions, triggers, physical cues, and alternative behaviors. Teach and model for students how to utilize replacement behaviors, employ calming strategies, and follow classroom expectations. Teach students multiple forms of “Cool Off” including, but not limited to, at their desk, in the PASS room, and a separate location in their general education classroom as determined by the PASS teacher and general education teacher. Create and maintain a PASS store that is specifically tied to student’s behavior progress. This should be an incentive that students earn based on daily and weekly percentages (via PASS tracker). Collaborate with campus and district personnel to provide the most appropriate services for students participating in the PASS program. Use effective verbal management techniques:
Maintain at least weekly (if not daily) communication with parents and avoids calling parents/guardians only to report negative behavioral issues. For secondary, monitor and review credit requirements and transcripts for individual students. Follow NCI (Non-violent Crisis Intervention) procedures for de-escalation and restraint. Forms Additional Resources |
Special Education Procedures Manual > Staff Roles and Responsibilities (Including General Staff Forms) >