“If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to drive, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we …teach? …punish? Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically as we do the others?”

Herner, 1998

At this point in your preparation for implementation, students are at the acquisition level of learning social skills. They are learning a new skill (or at least common, consistent use of a skill), and the lessons will need to be direct, explicit, and taught frequently with fidelity, consistency, and equity.

This lesson will guide you through the process of developing high quality lesson plans to initially teach acquisition of the expected behaviors outlined in the social behavioral curriculum.

Outcomes

By the end of this lesson, participants will….

  • create a set of lesson plans to initially teach acquisition of expected behaviors.