Teaching Expected Behaviors

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Teaching Expected Behaviors
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Teach Expected Behaviors

• Behavior is learned.
• All students have not had same opportunity to
  learn school skills.
• Social skills training teaches students a process
  or strategy to resolve problems.
• Replace problem behavior with a more desirable
  behavior for that setting.
• Teach routines to establish predictability
  reduce anxiety

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Teaching Lessons on Expectations
Teach your expectations before the activity
or transition begins.
Monitor student behavior by circulating and
visually scanning.
Provide feedback during the activity and at the
conclusion of the activity.
Begin the cycle again for the next activity.
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Encourage Expected Behavior

• Ensure that physical arrangement is conducive to
  activity
• Utilize pre-corrects for student behavior
• Deliver reinforcement
• Specific feedback connected to school-wide
  expectations
• Timely and accurate
• Contingent
• Age-appropriate
• Given your way
• Providing praise for correct academic responses
  and appropriate social behavior leads to
  -Sutherland, 2000
• Increases in student correct responses
• Increases in on task behavior
• Decreases in disruptive behaviors

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DiscourageProblem Behavior

• Emotion Free response
• More effective if students have been taught
  expected behaviors
• Minimize attention other than signal of error
• Praise for appropriate behavior
• If errors occur frequently?
• Re-teach
• Provide more opportunities for practice
• Reinforce more consistently
• Assess Is this an individual student learning
  error, or is the entire class displaying the
  misbehavior?

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Correct StudentBehavior Errors

• Steps to Take
• 1.Signal that an error has occurred
• Refer to rules "We respect others in this room
  and that means using kind language.
• 2. Ask for an alternative appropriate response
• "How can you show respect and still get your
  point across?
• 3. Provide an opportunity to practice the skill
  and provide verbal feedback
• "That's much better, thank you for showing
  respect toward others.