For this assignment, you will use your knowledge of performance management, supervision, teamwork, and communication to develop a comprehensive 8- to 10-page Performance Management Plan Portfolio to enhance staff/trainee improvement in a given environment. You are on ABA team of professionals working within a system that requires assessment and training to maximize the performance of the staff or stakeholders within that system. Your team has an opportunity to choose a case study to work from to complete this assignment:
Case Study 2: School Program (includes teacher, class aides, and one-on-one)
Edgardo is a fifth-grade student in an inclusion classroom with a regular education teacher, a special education teacher (who is only in the classroom for half of the day during math and language arts), and two paraprofessionals (a classroom aide and Edgardo’s one-on-one aide). Edgardo has a diagnosis of oppositional defiance disorder and exhibits frequent noncompliance and occasional physical disruption of the classroom (swipes materials from tables/desks, pushes furniture around, and dumps materials). As a result, Edgardo does not complete much of his schoolwork during the day because his behaviors impede his task completion, and the district is considering a more restrictive classroom environment if Edgardo’s behaviors are not improved. Edgardo’s special education teacher has some basic knowledge of applied behavior analysis; however, the general education teacher and paraprofessionals have never been trained in ABA.
After reviewing the case study, you should discuss and develop the following aspects for your Performance Management Plan Portfolio:
- Assessment: Conduct a hypothetical diagnostic assessment of the system to determine the needs of the staff in terms of skills. Describe how the assessment analyzes the specific environment you are supporting. Then, hypothesize the assessment results that will be used to pinpoint behaviors for desired staff performance.
- Pinpoint (and define) the desired performance outcomes and the target behaviors for staff. Discuss whether these are individual target behaviors or behaviors targeted for the group, and provide a rationale to explain why the targeted behaviors are necessary to meet the performance outcomes.
- Training: Develop a set of training procedures for staff. Be sure to provide a discussion of why your outlined procedures were selected and how they will be implemented. This rationale should be grounded in evidence-based literature.
- Performance Monitoring: Develop a tool for monitoring the performance of staff. Provide an explanation of your monitoring tool and how the monitoring process will contribute to effective management of staff performance.
- Feedback and Reinforcement: Discuss your team’s strategies for providing feedback and reinforcement regarding staff performance. What are specific considerations regarding the feedback process? What specific plan for providing positive reinforcement will you implement?
- Evaluating Outcomes: Design one or more evaluation tools that will effectively measure performance outcomes. Discuss the process that your team has established to evaluate performance outcomes and provide an explanation of how the selected measures provide reliable information to analyze whether performance outcomes have been met.
- Barriers: Predict potential barriers that may arise during the assessment and training process and discuss strategies that may be used to problem solve and overcome (or prevent) such barriers.
- Performance Management Overview: Use the template provided to insert all relevant information as a comprehensive overview of the Performance Management Plan.
