Teaching Behavior Expectations

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• Teaching Behavior Expectations
• January 24, 2007
• www.cenmi.org/miblsi

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If a child doesnt know how to read, we teach.
If a child doesnt know how to swim, we teach.
If a child doesnt know how to multiply, we
teach. If a child doesnt know how to drive, we
teach. If a child doesnt know how to behave,
we..... .teach? punish?
Why cant we finish the last sentence as
automatically as we do the others?
Tom Herner (NASDE President ) Counterpoint 1998,
p.2)
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Big Ideas In Positive Behavior Support

• Identify expectations
• Teach expectation
• Monitor expected behavior
• Acknowledge/Encourage expected behavior
• Correct behavioral errors (continuum of
  consequences)
  
• Use information for decision-making

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Teach Behavioral Expectations

• Teach in the actual settings where behaviors are
  to occur
  
• Teach both
• the words
• the actions
• Build a social culture that is predictable, and
  focused on student success.

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Teaching Academics Behaviors
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Contrasting Positive and Negative Examples of
Behavioral Expectations

• Purpose to help students better understand the
  parameters of what is and what is not the
  expected behavior
  
• Choose examples that best fit the general case
  of the behavior expectation
  
• Choose nonexamples that are
• Close to being examples of expected behavior
  rather than outrageous nonexamples
  
• Typical of what students do when they are not
  engaged in the expected behavior

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Problem Only provide one positive example
This is zingle
Is this zingle?
Adapted from Engelmann S., Carnine, D. (1991).
Theory of instruction Principles and
applications. Eugene, OR ADI
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Problem Only provide positive examples
This is zingle
Is this zingle?
This is zingle
This is zingle
Adapted from Engelmann S., Carnine, D. (1991).
Theory of instruction Principles and
applications. Eugene, OR ADI
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Provide multiple examples and nonexamples
This is zingle
This is not zingle
This is zingle
This is not zingle
This is not zingle
This is zingle
Is this zingle?
Is this zingle?
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Provide multiple examples and non-examples
This is not galoof
This is galoof
This is not galoof
This is galoof
This is not galoof
This is galoof
Is this galoof?
Is this galoof?
Adapted from Engelmann S., Carnine, D. (1991).
Theory of instruction Principles and
applications. Eugene, OR ADI
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Process for Teaching Behavioral Expectations

• Define the Expectation
• Provide a Rationale
• Teach the Critical Discrimination
• Demonstrate Appropriate Behavior
• Demonstrate Unacceptable Behavior
• Practice telling the difference with multiple
  examples
  
• If there is a signal teach the signal (when
  should the appropriate behavior occur?)
  
• Have everyone practice the appropriate behavior
• Acknowledge students for demonstrating
  appropriate behavior

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Use Behavior Matrix to Create Behavior Lesson
Plans
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Williamette High School Behavior Expectations
in Hallway
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Expected Behavior Lesson PlanSample 1
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Expected Behavior Lesson PlanSample 2
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Team Work Time

• Use the Behavior Expectation Lesson Plan
  worksheet to create your own lesson plan for
  teaching behavior expectations

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Traveling Passports

• Precorrecting new kids
• Procedures
• Meet with key adults
• Review expectations
• Go to next teaching location

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Morning Announcement

• Students in Lansdowne High School Drama and
  Broadcasting classes wrote and performed public
  service announcements that have been played on
  the morning announcements

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When to Teach Rules

• Teaching Sessions
• Younger students 10- 15 minutes sessions
• Older students longer teaching sessions
• First week- every day
• First month- every Monday
• Throughout year- first day back from extended
  vacations
  
• When new person (student or staff) joins class

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Other times we have found helpful

• Prior to an assembly or special program
• Prior to a substitute teacher coming
• Prior to a change in routine
• When data suggests a need for a refresher

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Team Work Time

• Make a plan
• Develop a schedule/plan for initial teaching of
  behaviors (consider rotating stations)
  
• Use the Teaching Behavior Expectations Schedule
  of Events Worksheet to develop a general schedule
  or set of guidelines for refresher sessions.

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Organizing a PBS Start to the YearSouth Range
All lesson plans, teaching matrix, flowcharts,
etc are provided to staff in one easy to use
binder
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School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
Tertiary prevention focuses on reducing the
intensity and/or complexity of existing cases of
problem behavior that are resistant to primary
and secondary prevention efforts

Secondary prevention focuses on reducing the
number of existing cases of problem behaviors by
establishing efficient and rapid responses to
occurrences of problem behavior.
Primary prevention focuses on preventing the
development of new cases of problem behaviors by
focusing on all students and staff, across all
settings (i.e., school-wide, classroom, and
nonclassroom/ unstructured settings).
All Students