What are Behavior Intervention Plans?
Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) targets a students' specific behavior to change and provides classroom interventions to put into place to improve the students' behavior.
The first step to addressing the child's undesirable behavior is to create a Functional Behavior Analysis to "determine what environmental events predict and currently maintain the student's problem behavior" (Larrivee, 1999, p.216). Once the FBA is completed, a Behavior Intervention Plan is "designed to address the "here and now" of a classroom setting, the match of learner to environment. As such, they focus on the "immediate and alterable influences on behavior rather than on immutable or historical reasons for behavior." (Larrivee, 1999, p.213). A well-designed Behavior Intervention Plan includes what "educators will do to alter environments or teach new behaviors that may be necessary for the student's success" (Larrivee, 1999, p.213).
The first step to addressing the child's undesirable behavior is to create a Functional Behavior Analysis to "determine what environmental events predict and currently maintain the student's problem behavior" (Larrivee, 1999, p.216). Once the FBA is completed, a Behavior Intervention Plan is "designed to address the "here and now" of a classroom setting, the match of learner to environment. As such, they focus on the "immediate and alterable influences on behavior rather than on immutable or historical reasons for behavior." (Larrivee, 1999, p.213). A well-designed Behavior Intervention Plan includes what "educators will do to alter environments or teach new behaviors that may be necessary for the student's success" (Larrivee, 1999, p.213).
A Behavior Intervention Plan is a teaching plan, NOT just behavior objectives and goals for the student to master (Larrivee,1999).
The "ultimate expectation of a BIP is that the intervention will result in lasting behavior change across a variety of environments that the student is expected to encounter" (Killu, 2008, p.145).
Intervention Diagram from (Riffel, 2007)