How to help specific students with challenging behaviors

For those few students in a class that exhibit behaviors that seem not to change despite a strong rule/reward/consequence system, teachers should consider using:
--functional behavioral assessments
--behavior intervention plans

A functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is used to figure out what outside factors are influencing a student to exhibit the behaviors. Basically, you want to monitor the child and record:
-what is going on before the student exhibits the behavior
-what is going on while the student exhibits the behavior
-what happens after the student exhibits the behavior
Often, a student's behavior is directly related to the environment around him/her.

A behavior intervention plan (BIP) can be made with the information gained from the FBA. This plan is something that the teacher and student can build together. In it, specific goals are created and a specific broken-down plan for how the teacher and student can work together to achieve it. You can use the following links for some guidance on this or just research FBAs and BIPs.

http://specialchildren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=specialchildren&cdn=parenting&tm=30&f=10&tt=13&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.advocatesforspecialkids.org/pb_plan_kind_adhd.htm

http://specialchildren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=specialchildren&cdn=parenting&tm=5&f=10&tt=13&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.projectstay.com/pdf/BehaviorInterventionPlan.pdf

http://cecp.air.org/fba/

http://www.updc.org/ubi/bip.htm

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/16/13/97.pdf

http://www.usu.edu/teachall/text/iep/forms/plan.pdf