Description

This course provides information necessary for the development of a schoolwide encouragement system. The content provided will focus on the practices needed to build a comprehensive system to encourage and motivate students as they are learning the expected behaviors, and then to maintain those skills as students become more fluent in their use.

Learner Objectives

  • Understand the importance and impact of positive consequences on student behavior and school climate.
  • Use preferred adult behaviors
  • Teach staff to effectively use positive specific feedback.
  • Develop a schoolwide system to encourage students’ use of expected behaviors (your matrix)
  • Develop and use a classwide system to encourage students’ use of expected classroom rules and procedures and teachers’ use of positive specific feedback (This outcome is addressed in ETLP #3).
  • Develop strategies to encourage staff and families to use positive specific feedback
  • Develop methods to monitor staff’s use of encouragement strategies with students.

Recommended Prerequisites

  • Read Overview of a Systems Approach to SW-PBS: MO SW-PBS Handbook.
  • Complete Foundations Course 2: The Science of Behavior
  • Complete Course 4 Teaching Expected Behavior.
  • Use as a reference the Tier 1 Implementation Guide, Course 4 > Teaching Expected Behavior

Reflective Questions

  • How can you increase the likelihood that students will follow behavioral expectations?
  • What role does function play in expectation following behavior?

Course Content

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