BEAM Implementation Manual
The purpose of the BEAM Implementation Manual is to help teachers implement the BEAM model in their classrooms or programs. The manual is not a stand-alone document. It serves as a supplement to BEAM training and a guide to implement the BEAM model in classrooms or with individual teachers. Before implementing the BEAM process, attend a training or participate in the online course offered by CEED.
All of the following items are included in the BEAM Implementation Manual:
BEAM Classroom Guide
The BEAM Classroom Guide is designed to specify components of a classroom that support social and emotional development in young children. It is meant to be used both as a self-reflective tool that teachers can complete in their own classrooms and as a tool that can be used by administrators or others in a supervisory role. The guide is organized around the four levels of the inverted BEAM pyramid.
BEAM Step 1: Information Gathering Form
The first step of the BEAM process involves collecting information about the child with the BEAM Step 1: Information Gathering Form. This form will assist you team in intervention planning for a specific child by providing information about the child's history, family, likes, dislikes, developmental concerns, strengths, and weaknesses.
BEAM Step 2: Observation Tools
After your team has gathered information using the BEAM Information Gathering Form, your team may decide that you need more specific information before you can develop a support plan for a particular child. In order to gather more information, you will either need to directly observe the child or gather information over time to observe patterns of events that may be influencing the child's behavior. BEAM Step 2: Observation Tools forms are suggestions for ways to gather more information. This document includes these forms:
- Scatterplot
- ABC Analysis Form (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence)
- Setting Event Checklist
- Child-Teacher Interaction Checklist
BEAM Step 3: Intervention Brainstorming Worksheet
The last step of the BEAM process (BEAM Step 3: Intervention Brainstorming Worksheet) summarizes the information you have gathered and gives a place to design interventions based on this information, how the interventions will be implemented, and describes how you will measure the success of the intervention.
BEAM Step 4: BEAM Building a Support Plan
The planning worksheet is used to identify specific interventions that will be implemented for the child and the specific steps that will be taken to implement them.
BEAM Step 5: BEAM Teacher Feedback Form
This form is used to provide feedback to teachers regarding things they are doing well and things they might consider changing.
