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
- 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.
- Cotton, K. (1995) Effective schools research summary: 1995 update. Portland, OR: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.