Next Steps: Teaching Expectations

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Next Steps Teaching Expectations
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Whats been done!

• Expectations developed
• All staff involved
• Rules developed for each area of the school
• Develop Visual aide (e.g., Logo or tie into
  School Mascot or name mneumonic)
• Introduce rules to all staff

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Create and post banners for the expectations

• TIGER PAWS
• Preparation
• Attitude
• Work Ethic
• Safety

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• Create and post signs for the rules to be hung in
  each area you have identified

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Stay in your seatUse inside voiceBackpacks
under the seat
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Keep your hall pass in sightWalk to the
rightMaintain silence when class in session
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Put books on shelvesInside voicesFollow
directions for computer use
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Teach Rules Directly

• AzSET - SWPBS
• 4 Expected student behaviors are taught
  directly
• 15 The school has formal strategies for
  informing families about expected student
  behaviors
• 16 Booster training activities are developed,
  modified, and conducted based on school data

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Essential Components

• Involve as many staff as possible
• Develop a lesson plan for each area in which
  rules are posted
• Hall - Cafeteria
• Bathrooms - Library/Media Room
• Bus - Auditorium
• Parking Area - Playground
• Office - Classroom

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• Positive and negative examples
• Students practice the rules
• Reinforce for exhibiting expected behavior
• Staff model expected behaviors

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Objective

• Students know and follow rules

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Recommended Procedures

• Divide children into manageable groups (e.g.
  grade level groups or classroom or homeroom)
• Assign one or two staff to each area
• Identify the first day or two or week of school
  for initial training based on number of groups
• Move student groups through each area in which
  teaching is to occur

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• Have a lesson plan/script for teachers to follow
  in each area
• Students practice appropriate behavior
• Give positive feedback to students who are
  following expected behaviors

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Lesson Plan - Hall

• Identify Objectives
• Procedure
• Locate posted rules and expectations
• Tell why they are important
• Tell how they are related to the expectations
• Role play in which a model breaks hall rules

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Lesson Plan (cont)

• Role play in which a model correctly follows hall
  rules
• Students practice going through the hall and
  observing the rules
• Students repeat hall rules aloud
• Provide consequences for appropriate behavior

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Alternatives

• First week of school, use first few minutes of
  classroom time to teach the rule for a specific
  area one per day.
• First week or two of school, use the first few
  minutes to teach the rule in the appropriate area
  of the school.

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• Video tape role plays and present through school
  television or in classroom
• Present the rules and role plays at an assembly

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Booster Sessions

• Needed sometimes after a long break (e.g., winter
  break) especially in the beginning
• Reminders during morning announcements
• Develop a song or rhyme or some other way to help
  students learn and remember the rules
• Give students opportunity to practice saying the
  expectations and rules ask them unexpectedly
• Staff model expected behavior

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New Students and Staff

• Assign a buddy
• Make a video tape of the teaching sessions and
  show it to all new students, families, and staff

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Parents

• The school has formal strategies for informing
  families about expected student behaviors
• Newsletters
• Discipline/Parent/Student Handbook
• Parent Night/Open House/Orientation
• Letter of introduction
• Part of reinforcement includes parent letter
• Add to school and district web page

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• Post expectations and rules
• Develop teaching plan
• Teach expectations and rules directly
• Include all staff in teaching
• Develop booster sessions and reminders for
  students and staff
• Reinforce expected behavior
• Staff model expected behavior
• Introduce PBS to families
• Develop system for teaching new students, staff,
  and families
• Teach yearly