http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-34-fall-2008/building-blocks-positive-behavior
The PBIS system relies on sustained efforts throughout the entire school year. It requires "buy-in" from teachers and staff, and must be implemented consistently by all staff members.
- Teach (and reteach throughout the year) appropriate and expected behaviors.
- Acknowledge positive behavior immediately.
- Role play expected positive behaviors.
- Teach positive behaviors in the context and setting they will occur.
- Identify clear systems for rewards and consequences.
- Rewards may be verbal recognition, a slip of paper to show parents, entrance into a prize drawing, school supplies, etc.
- Consequences should be sequential and match the offense. There are no "blanket" consequences.
- Conference with the student to provide him/her with corrective feedback.
- Re-teach behavioral expectations.
- Mediate conflict between students or students and staff.
- Create behavior contracts that include expected behaviors, consequences for infractions, and incentives for demonstrating positive behaviors.
- Student completion of community service tasks.
- Development of an open communication system between parents/guardians and school officials in order to address issues the student may be facing in a collaborative manner.
- Reflective activity, such as writing an essay, about the offense and how it affected the student, others, and the school.
- Loss of a privilege.
- Adjust the student's class schedule or placement to maximize academic and behavioral improvement.
- Create a check-in/check-out intervention plan for the at-risk student with a caring adult in the school who tracks the student's behavioral progress and addresses his/her individual needs on a daily basis.
- Require daily or weekly check-ins with an administrator for a set period of time.
- Refer student to counselor, social worker, behavior interventionist, or Building Based Student Support Team.
- Work with the student to choose an appropriate way for him/her to apologize and make amends to those harmed or offended.
- Arrange for the student to receive services from a counseling, mental health, or mentoring agency.
- Detention or in-school suspension, during which the student completes his/her work.
Ruby Payne
*Taken from A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- Discipline should be used as a form of instruction.
- The purpose of discipline should be to promote successful behaviors at school.
- Structure and choice need to be part of the discipline approach.
- Teaching students the "language" of negotiation is important for success in and out of school and can become an alternative to physical aggression.
- Students need to have at least two sets of behaviors from which to choose-one for the street and one for school and work settings.
