BEST Training Bel Aire Park Elementary School August

BEST Training Bel Aire Park Elementary School August 2008

Today’s Goals: • Develop schoolwide expectations for common areas • Develop a way and timeline to communicate rules to all students • Establish strategies to help build a respectful school community • Write lesson plans to teach school rules

Three-Tiered Model of Schoolwide Discipline Strategies 3 -5% Individual FEW 7 -10% Classroom & Small Group Strategies SOME 85 -90 % School-wide Systems of Support ALL -Intensive academic support -Effective academic support -Functional assessment -Social skills teaching -Intensive social skillsplans -Individual behavior -Effective classroom management teaching and support -Parent training and -Teaching school behavior -Self-management programs expectations collaboration -School-based adult -Active supervision and mentors -Multi-agency collaboration monitoring (checking in)to suspension -Alternative -Positive reinforcement for all -Increased academic support and expulsion students -Alternatives to out-of-Community service -Firm, Fair, and corrective school discipline learningsuspension -Data-based decision making

Why do we need school wide expectations? • Clear expectations – Reduce reactive responses by teachers – Improve consistency of teacher behavior – Increase predictability of interactions for students and teachers

What Do We Know About Effective Behavioral Expectations? • Create a culture of consistency and competence • Taught by all staff members to all students (and reviewed regularly!) • Use positively stated expectations • Target all forms of behavior – Safe – Respectful – Responsible • Expectations should be known by all students and adults in the school (ask them!)

The “Be” Rules Be Safe Be Respectful Be Responsible

Features of Positive school behavioral expectations: What are we looking for? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Positively stated Posted in hallways, classrooms, handbook etc. Taught directly to all students Taught & reviewed at least 10 -20 times a year Must be recognized and positively reinforced by all adults throughout the school (consistent, proactive, carefully planned)

Teach social behavior like academic skills If we want them to know it – we have to teach it! • Teach through multiple examples • Teach where you expect the behavior to take place. • Reteach when and where problems are occurring • Give frequent practice opportunities • Provide useful corrections • Provide positive feedback • Monitor for success • Model expected behaviors with students and adults

Defining School-Wide Rules Worksheet

Ideas • If a behavior is important enough to require a rule/expectation and correction in cases of error, then it is important enough to specifically acknowledge the positive expression of the behavior

Words to live by • If we want our students to change their behavior, we have to change ours. • Inappropriate behavior is a very effective, and efficient, way to get teacher attention. • If students are not doing what you want, teach (or reteach) them! • Pay attention to behavior you want. • Catch students doing the “right” thing. • You never know when you will get a surprise!

Examples of Positive Consequences • Sitting in teacher’s chair • Being first in line • leaving class 2 min. early • Free time • Computer time • Leading a lesson • Additional time at recess • Sitting where they want • P. E. /Music • Fun activities • Handing out papers • Videos