Maintaining Appropriate Behavior

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Maintaining Appropriate Behavior Observation
Techniques

• Chapters 10 11

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Appropriate behavior

• Most students will live within boundaries you
  establish
• 1 of your students will be problems

• Be proactiveintervene as needed
• Praise good behaviordont go beserk.
• Give prompts BEFORE you need them. Reminders of
  expected behavior.

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Proactive vs Reactive

• Proactive Strategies
• Positive interaction
• Eliminate differential treatment
• Prompting

• Reactive Strategies
• Nonverbal teacher interactions
• Ignoring inappropriate behavior
• Person to person dialogue

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Students acting up. Now what?

• Be assertive.
• Some behavior can be ignoredshort lived, minor
  infraction, reacting would interrupt lesson
  (hardest one)
• Master the nonverbal art of STOP

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• Approach and talk to student
• Sometimes done after class
• Determine reasons for behavior
• DESISTSBe assertive and stop behavior that is
  continuous or disrupting of class
• Be clear with students
• Be firm and direct
• Use the students name
• Firm but not rudefine line

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• Time outshave the student sit out works at all
  levels
• For extreme cases or repeated cases of
  misbehavior
• Parent contact
• Behavior contract
• Office intervention

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Classwide Appropriate Behavior

• The BAD CLASS
• Option presented by book
• Class rewards
• Standard of behavior
• Class beats standard
• Class earns reward
• Token system
• Rewards/points earned
• Discover card

• Hellisons Social Responsibility Model
• Behavior game
• Teach appropriate behavior through a game

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Observation

• Crucial for two reasons
• Maintain control appropriate behavior
• Help students master skills

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Techniques

• Back to the wall
• See entire class
• See if class functions appropriately
• Best position to see every student

• Not necessarily most effective
• Too focused on a student/behavior

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Other option

• Scan
• Quickly look over class
• Idea of whos on task and who isnt

Back to the wall and scanning are preliminary
techniques.how to look BUT what are we looking
for?
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Four points of observation

• Safety
• On task behavior

• Class movement patterns
• Individual movement patterns

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Safety

• PE setting esp. Primary concern
• Unsafe environment or behavior must be corrected
  immediately
• LIABILITY

• Explain safety procedures
• Appropriate attire
• Appropriate behavior
• Appropriate use of equipment

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On task behavior

• Doing what you asked?
• Off task because
• Didnt understand
• Bored/frustrated
• Didnt LISTEN
• Dont know how to be on task

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Class movement patterns

• Class accomplishing task as a whole
• Observe one step/teaching cue at a time
• Choices are
• Change
• Provide a cue
• Present a challenge without changing the task

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Individual movement patterns

• Focus on individual students
• Provide feedback
• Record information
• Watch class first
• Individual next
• Cant forget the class

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Individual (contd)

• Vary the tasks as children learn
• Focus on specifics
• Develop a checklist with cues skills
• Rating system-- /-, ? or ?
• Observe the class
• Make suggestions give feedback

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In Summary

• Appropriate behavior
• Proactive vs Reactive
• Observation
• Safety
• On task behavior
• Class movement patterns
• Individual movement patterns