A number of issues must be addressed in order to intervene with academic problems within classrooms . These issues include screening, problem specification, problem function, solving the problem, and subsequent problem evaluation. Although the addition of a consultant will allow services to be delivered to greater numbers of children than could be…

Use of precision teaching principles with learning problem students involves five steps: specifying performance, recording daily behavior, charting daily behavior, recording the teaching approach, and analyzing data. The approach has been successfully implemented through consultation of school psychologists in Walsall, England. (CL)

This paper reviews literature on methods of specifying target behaviors as a preliminary step in the provision of specialized instructional programming for low-performing, at-risk students. Careful specification of target behaviors can ensure that collaborating teachers in a consultation program have a shared understanding of the exact nature of…