Behavior management techniques provide the tools for recreation staff to assist participants in achieving program objectives by increasing positive behavior and decreasing negative behavior. The ultimate goal is to help individuals of all abilities actively, successfully, and safely participate in your recreation programs. Analyze the Activity First, analyze all the steps and experiences of your program before it begins. Identify aspects of your program from start to finish. Take a look at environmental influences that may affect an individual's behavior such as the weather, the facility or space, program structure and transitions.
Program analysis starts from the moment the participants arrive at the program.
The moment the bus pulls up in front of your recreation facility and the participants unload, enter your building, and eventually find their way to your after-school program located upstairs. Program analysis also includes the actual activity in your program. For example, let's look at the game of kickball. Assume there are 18 participants in an after-school program. Your staff has divided the kids into two teams of nine.