Teaching Expected Behavior

Once expectations have been defined, systematic teaching of those expected behaviors must be a routine part of the school day. Effective instruction of social behavioral skills requires more than simply providing the rule–it requires instruction, practice, feedback, reteaching, and encouragement (Algozzine, Wang & Violette, 2011), (Cotton, 1995).

Learning Objectives

Develop a system to teach expected behavior in the social behavioral curriculum, that includes:

  • understand why teaching social behavioral skills is important
  • engaging all staff in a process of writing lesson plans
  • creating a set of lesson plans to initially teach acquisition of expected behaviors
  • creating a set of booster lessons for maintenance of expected behaviors
  • developing and sharing a schedule for teaching expected behaviors.

Essential Functions

  • The building leadership team has engaged all staff in a process of writing lesson plans to teach expected behavior in the social behavioral curriculum.
  • The building leadership team has developed a set of lesson plans to initially teach acquisition of expected behavior in the social behavioral curriculum.
  • The building leadership team has developed a set of booster lessons for maintenance of expected behavior in the social behavioral curriculum.
  • The building leadership team has a schedule for teaching expectations in the social behavioral curriculum.

Recommended Prerequisites

Participant Handouts

Pre-Post Knowledge Check

Presenter/Consultant Materials

Powerpoint with Presenter Notes

Implementation Supports

Additional Resources

  1. Algozzine, B., Wang, C., & Violette, A. S. (2011). Reexamining the relationship between academic achievement and social behavior. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 13(1), 3-16.
  2. Cotton, K. (1995) Effective schools research summary: 1995 update. Portland, OR: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.