Teaching, Encouraging, and Correcting Student Behavior
Solving the Discipline Puzzle Series
Teaching, Encouraging, and Correcting Student Behavior There are those who would admonish their pupils ‘to behave’ rather than teach them how to relate positively to each other. Yet, seldom would we admonish a student to read in place of teaching the necessary skills. Social skills should be taught to children using the same strategies used to teach academics–instruction, practice, and feedback. Many schoolwide discipline efforts stop short of providing staff with proven strategies to directly teach behavioral expectations and then use high rates of positive feedback for students demonstrating responsible behavior as well as correction for students behaving irresponsibly. Without these concrete teacher tools, schoolwide discipline efforts often fall short of truly changing student behavior. In Teaching Encouraging and Correcting Student Behavior, highly effective strategies are presented for educators to easily teach and review their expectations in an ongoing way, and then use the “teachable moment” to continue that teaching as behavior, either positive or negative, occurs in all classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, and office areas each and every day. These strategies include sound relationship-building behaviors that allow staff to talk comfortably with students about behavior without conflicts, allowing them to maintain high expectations for successful behaviors and low tolerances for inappropriate. Staff will be able to: • Understand their moment-by-moment role in a positive, proactive, and instructional approach to discipline • Grasp how social behavior is learned just as academics– through instruction, practice, and positive and corrective feedback • Augment their schoolwide expectations with a Social Skills curriculum to help students develop social competence and life-long success • Clarify procedures for their classroom • Use preferred adult behaviors to interact effectively with students experiencing behavior problems, enhance their teaching of behavior, and create a positive school and classroom climate • Demonstrate six strategies to teach, encourage, and correct behavior and integrate those strategies into their daily routine • Use proven procedures to de-escalate angry, defensive, intense student behavior • Select and effectively use consequences, both positive and negative, to facilitate behavior change
[email protected] • 573.228.9397
Why Teaching, Encouraging, Correcting Behavior?
• Many students today do not have vital social and interpersonal skills necessary for school and life success • Student discipline is best achieved through instruction rather than punishment • Social behavior can be taught using the same approaches used to teach academics • Teaching and upholding expectations for social competency creates a positive climate and allows learning to flourish • Research shows that students need and want high standards for their behavior that are consistently upheld • Many teachers struggle with and are uncertain or uncomfortable when addressing misbehavior
© Creating Student Success • Revised 2014
“When everyone handles social errors with consistent feedback, students learn that what happens when they misbehave is procedural not personal.” Bob Algozzine, 2000
Strategies taught: Preventive Teaching–protocols for teaching skills and expectations planfully, at a neutral time to set students up for success • Group Teaching–introduces expectations or social skills to a class or group • Individual Teaching–briefly teaches or reviews a social skill or expectation at a neutral time with an individual student or small group of students who will need more frequent review in order to be successful • Preventive Prompt–a brief reminder of an expectation or skill just prior to a naturally occurring opportunity to use that skill, procedure or expectation
Incidental Teaching–instruction that capitalizes on naturally occurring social behavior or events to strengthen or teach desirable behaviors; applied learning that promotes generalization and maintenance of desired student behavior • Positive Feedback–strengthens a responsible behavior or social skill through the power of recognition, encouragement, and specific feedback • Effective Reprimand–a temporary tool used in response to minor misbehaviors that occur at a time when it is inconvenient to engage in lengthier teaching • Corrective Teaching–interrupts behavior needing improvement so that a more appropriate response can be taught, reviewed, practiced, and then reinforced
Providing educators with the skill set to both preventively and incidentally teach social behavior is one of the most powerful tools for improving school climate. Ms. Wells has worked with hundreds of schools across the country, giving them the strategies to comfortably yet directly respond to social errors and assist students to become more successful and powerful. This 3-day training includes teaching, modeling, individual procedure development, and role-play of the six strategies. Everything you need to implement will be provided. Change your schools climate by empowering staff to effectively recognize desirable behavior and respond certainly and effectively to misbehavior, allowing you to maintain high expectations for social competency.
Creating Success for All Students
© Creating Student Success • All Rights Reserved 203 Blue Sky Court, Columbia, Missouri 65203 • Phone 573.228.9397 www.creatingstudentsuccess.com
Teaching, Encouraging, and Correcting Student Behavior There are those who would admonish their pupils ‘to behave’ rather than teach them how to relate positively to each other. Yet, seldom would we admonish a student to read in place of teaching the necessary skills. Social skills should be taught to children using the same strategies used to teach academics–instruction, practice, and feedback. Many schoolwide discipline efforts stop short of providing staff with proven strategies to directly teach behavioral expectations and then use high rates of positive feedback for students demonstrating responsible behavior as well as correction for students behaving irresponsibly. Without these concrete teacher tools, schoolwide discipline efforts often fall short of truly changing student behavior. In Teaching Encouraging and Correcting Student Behavior, highly effective strategies are presented for educators to easily teach and review their expectations in an ongoing way, and then use the “teachable moment” to continue that teaching as behavior, either positive or negative, occurs in all classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, and office areas each and every day. These strategies include sound relationship-building behaviors that allow staff to talk comfortably with students about behavior without conflicts, allowing them to maintain high expectations for successful behaviors and low tolerances for inappropriate. Staff will be able to: • Understand their moment-by-moment role in a positive, proactive, and instructional approach to discipline • Grasp how social behavior is learned just as academics– through instruction, practice, and positive and corrective feedback • Augment their schoolwide expectations with a Social Skills curriculum to help students develop social competence and life-long success • Clarify procedures for their classroom • Use preferred adult behaviors to interact effectively with students experiencing behavior problems, enhance their teaching of behavior, and create a positive school and classroom climate • Demonstrate six strategies to teach, encourage, and correct behavior and integrate those strategies into their daily routine • Use proven procedures to de-escalate angry, defensive, intense student behavior • Select and effectively use consequences, both positive and negative, to facilitate behavior change
[email protected] • 573.228.9397
Why Teaching, Encouraging, Correcting Behavior?
• Many students today do not have vital social and interpersonal skills necessary for school and life success • Student discipline is best achieved through instruction rather than punishment • Social behavior can be taught using the same approaches used to teach academics • Teaching and upholding expectations for social competency creates a positive climate and allows learning to flourish • Research shows that students need and want high standards for their behavior that are consistently upheld • Many teachers struggle with and are uncertain or uncomfortable when addressing misbehavior
© Creating Student Success • Revised 2014
“When everyone handles social errors with consistent feedback, students learn that what happens when they misbehave is procedural not personal.” Bob Algozzine, 2000
Strategies taught: Preventive Teaching–protocols for teaching skills and expectations planfully, at a neutral time to set students up for success • Group Teaching–introduces expectations or social skills to a class or group • Individual Teaching–briefly teaches or reviews a social skill or expectation at a neutral time with an individual student or small group of students who will need more frequent review in order to be successful • Preventive Prompt–a brief reminder of an expectation or skill just prior to a naturally occurring opportunity to use that skill, procedure or expectation
Incidental Teaching–instruction that capitalizes on naturally occurring social behavior or events to strengthen or teach desirable behaviors; applied learning that promotes generalization and maintenance of desired student behavior • Positive Feedback–strengthens a responsible behavior or social skill through the power of recognition, encouragement, and specific feedback • Effective Reprimand–a temporary tool used in response to minor misbehaviors that occur at a time when it is inconvenient to engage in lengthier teaching • Corrective Teaching–interrupts behavior needing improvement so that a more appropriate response can be taught, reviewed, practiced, and then reinforced
Providing educators with the skill set to both preventively and incidentally teach social behavior is one of the most powerful tools for improving school climate. Ms. Wells has worked with hundreds of schools across the country, giving them the strategies to comfortably yet directly respond to social errors and assist students to become more successful and powerful. This 3-day training includes teaching, modeling, individual procedure development, and role-play of the six strategies. Everything you need to implement will be provided. Change your schools climate by empowering staff to effectively recognize desirable behavior and respond certainly and effectively to misbehavior, allowing you to maintain high expectations for social competency.
Creating Success for All Students
© Creating Student Success • All Rights Reserved 203 Blue Sky Court, Columbia, Missouri 65203 • Phone 573.228.9397 www.creatingstudentsuccess.com
