Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions: Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma

Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma

Ensure students acquire the academic skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary for long-term success. The authors examine effective academic and behavior supports and offer a step-by-step process for determining, targeting, and observing academic and behavior interventions. You’ll discover how to work in collaborative teams using a research-based framework to provide united and simultaneous interventions to students at risk.

Benefits

• Realize the role behavior plays in students’ academic performance.
• Identify the academic skills and knowledge, academic behaviors, and social behaviors necessary to developing a successful learner.
• Learn to simultaneously administer academic and behavior interventions to students at risk.
• Understand the need to make sure students are prepared to work independently and cooperatively and possess the academic skills and creativity to compete in the future job market.
• Gain intervention strategies to foster lifelong learners.