Description

This lesson describes the importance of having methods to monitor staff’s use of encouragement strategies with students when developing a schoolwide encouragement system.

Outcomes

  • Develop methods to monitor staff’s use of encouragement strategies with students.

Prerequisites

Course 5 of the Tier 1 Implementation Guide, Encouraging Expected Behavior and Effective Teaching and Learning Practice # 3 Encourage Use of Expected Behavior in MO SW-PBS Handbook.

Reflective Questions

Thinking back on your responses to your students’ behaviors, do you…
• Find yourself giving a higher rate of corrective feedback than positive specific feedback?
• Find that you provide an equal amount of corrective and behavior contingent positive feedback?
• Find that you provide more positive specific feedback than corrective?
• Find that you provide positive specific feedback and corrective feedback at a ratio at or greater than 4:1?