Level 1 Behaviors are those behaviors that are dealt with by the teacher or supervising adult in the classroom.
Here are some tips dealing with:
Off task behaviors
Disruptions
Inappropriate Verbal Interactions
Non-responsive to verbal directions
Inattention to classroom work
Unprepared for class
Late for class
Innappropriate Attire
Cheating: Clear Expectations
Play Fighting
Breakfast Passes
Cell Phones
Off task behaviors:
- Proximity
- Reminders or quiet redirections
- Eye contact/ verbal and eye contact
- Saying their name
- Investing time to get them going/direct teaching
- Planned ignoring
- start working with the student and ignore the behavior
- Move around classroom while talking and head towards behavior and walk away
- Mini conference by kneeling down next to them:” Why am I talking to you right now?”
- Evil eye (Stacy)
- Stop class and redirect focus: “we’re doing this”
- Name on the board check system 3 checks is a detention: Can earn name off board, if come talk at end of class will remove: otherwise detention
- Humor “welcome to planet science”
- Planned ignoring
- Nonverbal cues: pointing at task, eye contact
- Talking hand to mouth sh
- Make sure the students understand the work
- “Can you explain to me why you are off task? Should you be talking..?”
Disruptions
- Warning with redirection
- Conversations outside of classroom with student
- I statements (what you are observing, ask can you explain what is happening, state the expectation, discuss consequence-plan)
- Check for understanding
- Mini conference
- Evil eye
- Humor
- Hallway and check in (non-threatening manner)
- Address the behavior identifying what you need instead of naming behavior: “I need you to…”
- Even/calm voice
- Repeat offenders conversation outside the classroom
- Can I see you in the hall, “so what’s going on?”
- Clear verbal warning
- “The expectation is….”
- “What are you doing, you’re in the classroom, and what should you be doing?”
Inappropriate verbal interactions: shut up, nobody cares what you think, lashing out this is gay, this is stupid, directed profanity towards peer (Planning Room)
- Firm reminder
- State “that’s not respectful and everyone on the team deserves respect.” “He doesn’t deserve.”
- Try not to ask them why they said that
- “If you need to move or make a better choice right now please do it”
- Detention
- Reiterate classroom expectations: “We don’t talk to each other like that; we talk to each other respectfully.”
- “sorry is there a way you could restate that”
- “what are you going to say to make amends to that”
- Do you know what the real meaning is
- “What is homosexual about your paper?”
- Gay, stupid, give education/information about word use
- State that’s offensive
- “Some of my friends are gay”
- Take kids in the hall and provide information what it may look in the future
- “You don’t know if I am gay or not. Would you want to offend me?”
- “Do you know exactly what you are trying to say? Do you think words impact people, what if somebody say that to you?”
Non-responsive to verbal directions
- Remind them someone is asking them to do something reasonable
- As long as not being a distraction, address behaviors after class
- If you don’t get this done it really is not going to be in your favor review time limits and impact on grade
- Change tone and face: the mom look, look letting them know you mean business
- Discussion in the hall
- Give a warning and walk away
- Redirection: remind them of the expectation
- Ask them if they understand what’s happening
- Hallway conversations
- “Can you hear me speaking to you right now?”
- Offer some kind of choice
- “Is there a reason you are not doing what I’m asking you?”
- “Are you angry with something I have done?”
- If kids from other teams run away in hallway: follow them to their location to inform teacher and have conversation with their teacher there.
Inattention to classroom work
- Have conversation to find out what might be going on
- Give them break maybe tomorrow will be better
- Personal accountability: make up work time after school
- As long as their not being disruptive they have the right to fail
- “This is the time to clean out your ears and listen to what I have to say”
- One redirection then conversation outside of classroom
- Parent contact if repeated
- Check-in if understand or if choice: thumbs up , side , down if understand or not
- Color cup or something on desk determining whether they understand
- Avoid power struggle with student.
- Questions: What are you doing? What should you be doing?
Unprepared for class
- Suffer the consequences: your responsible
- Can’t go get it ask peers to help
- Find what you need, figure it out
- Loss of computer: write
- Chronic: meeting
- Provide pencils and paper. If they do not have planner then write on paper
- Reminders in advance that if not prepared will bring down team members
- Help organize
- Get your stuff and give them stuff
- Penalty
- Pass to their locker
- Pens and Pencils with flags
Late for Class
- 5 minutes in between classes wrote down time
- Reminder, make time up between SSR and lunch, after school, detention
- 4 tardies is a detention
- Penalty of points for the day
- Ask questions why they are late. work with them on how to make it on time
- Allow one per quarter, then detentions
- Call parent with concern
- Becomes level two if not follow consequences
Inappropriate Attire
- Private conversation: not ask if they know the dress code, approach as looking out for them
- Recommend that same sex address
- Eye contact and pretend to pull up shirt ( for girls showing)
- Put it away
- As woman we have to look out for each other and I hope your friends would….
- Boys: “I should not know what color your underwear is”
- Have a woman address
- “This is not personalized, this is not about you.”
- When dressed appropriate “You look really nice today.”
Inappropriate display of affection
- Use humor
- Tell student No PDA in middle school
Cheating: clear expectations
- Conversation: can’t take credit
- 0 and/or call home
- not vigilant on day to day stuff
- Natural consequence: assessment won’t know the info.
Play Fighting: Unnecessary Roughness
- First observation: redirection/stop
- Is the student a hand’s on kids?
- Is the student angry if yes ask more questions
Breakfast/ Passes
- Student needs to check in first if bus is a later one
- Have Betsy send list of Breakfast attendees so you know who is going to breakfast from your team
- Have student bring breakfast to TA
- Ask student to go when they get off the bus.
- If a continual problem have an adult go to cafeteria and asses the situation
- Check Betsy’s list if student is buying breakfast or just leaving the class to wander
- Wanderers: 1st time warning 2nd time detention with a call home.
- Sending teacher call receiving teachers
- Taking passes away for a week
- Always give passes for everything and tell student you need it back with a signature from the adult letting them go back
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