Essential Skills

Some skills that are essential to implement SWPIBS in their classroom is support systems to answer questions and refection processes on management styles. To have a support system in place to help teachers there needs to be an initial assessment of the classroom to be able to have a baseline to judge the teaching style. “A collaboration of priority development has been demonstrated to be useful strategy in the implementation of school-wide PBS” (Sugai and Horner, p. 251). Resources should be found to support teachers and allow professional development around these skills. Teachers should reflect on their management skills. “Reflective educators who constantly analyze their efficacy with students” (Sugai and Horner, p. 252) become successful in management styles. These are just two skills that an essential in implementing SWPIBS.