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Welcome to the Essential Feature of:

Teaching Schoolwide Expectations

 

Feature Purpose: Development of an efficient process for identifying skills that need to be taught, and a system to develop materials needed for school-wide teaching of the target skill.

Feature Outcomes: Lessons tied to matrix behaviors, that include the components of TELL-SHOW-PRACTICE-FEEDBACK are developed, available for dissemination to all staff when the schedule or data indicates the lessons need to be taught. Any additional resources (e.g., scripts for pre-correcting, announcement scripts, social stories, signage, etc.) are developed and easily available for use as needed in conjunction with the direct lesson materials, such that ALL staff teach social skills commensurate with their job responsibilities.

Proficient Level of Implementation is:

·     We have developed social skills lessons to directly teach all school-wide expectations and rules from matrix, and all nonclassroom rules and routines and rules and routines in 80% of classrooms.

·     All lesson components are clearly labeled tell/introduce, show / model / demonstrate and practice/role play. All our social skill lessons include a range of various activities, ideas and directions including numerous examples, nonexamples, precorrects, positive feedback statements, corrections and additional resources.

·     Weekly and all year, we directly teach social skills lessons for all school-wide expectations and rules from matrix, and all nonclassroom rules and routines and for all classroom rules and routines in 80% or more of classrooms.

·     At least 80% of our teachers and staff model social skills, practice, regularly give specific precorrects before “hot spots”, and consistently and fluently use building PBS language.

Implementation Examples include:

·        Lesson Plans tied to the matrix with TELL-SHOW-PRACTICE-FEEDBACK components included

·        Social stories tied to lessons and Matrix behaviors

·        Schedule for school-wide teaching

·        School-wide teaching indicated on individual teacher schedules

·        Announcement, Pre-correct and Corrective Feedback Scripts

 

Teaching Social Skills with Integrity Tip Sheet - Provides teachers and school staff members with information regarding what direct teaching of social skills looks like, as well as ideas for how ALL staff members teach social skills from the first to the last day of the school year!

 

Social Skill Lessons

The lessons linked below were developed through collaborative efforts of teachers and administrators from across the district during summer 2007 work sessions.  The lessons are aligned with the district Personal Growth and Work Habits, and in many cases directly align with matrix rules from individual buildings (although the wording may be slightly different). These lessons are provided to all district personnel in "word" format so that each school can personalize or tweak the rule wording or scenarios provided to best fit the building matrices, as well as individual school characteristics and populations.

 

 

Elementary

 

 

Middle School

 

 

 

Tools to Support Teaching Social Skills With Integrity

Defining and Understanding of Teaching with Integrity

Teaching with Integrity Rubric - Developed by the elementary Positive Behavior Support Coaches during the fall of 2006.

PDF

Social Skills and Academic Skills Lesson Parallel - Document that illustrates the parallel between direct instruction of social skills and academic skills.

PDF

 

Verifying Teaching With Integrity

Social Skills Teaching Observation Form- A form for observation developed in collaboration with Derby Ridge administrative staff to verify that social skills instruction is being provided in the most efficient format (e.g., including tell-show-student practice-feedback).

Word Document

 

Web Based Resources for Teaching Social Skills:

K-12 Resources

For a Better Life : video Public Service Announcements (PSA), Billboards from the ad campaign, bookmarks, audio files, and much more.


Teaching Tolerance
This web page includes web based versions of their twice yearly journal, links to lessons, resources and much more. Many resources available free for educators! Check this page out when planning weekly lessons, daily activities and special school events.

 

Social Stories have been written for use whole class at the beginning of the year to teach and/or review the exemplars of the school PBS Expectations in a variety of settings. These Social Stories are also an excellent resource for re-teaching to small groups or individual students as needed.


Character Counts!

A To Z Teachers Stuff

Operation Respect

 

Random Acts of Kindness   teacher resources related to kindness


 

Elementary Resources

Character Education Partnership

Good Character K-5

 

Secondary Resources

Good Character, Middle School

 

Social Skill Lesson Plans for Middle School Students

 

Good Character, High School

 

 


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This webpage was last updated on June 9, 2008

This web page will no longer be regularly updated.

The Columbia School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, or use of leave protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act, in its programs, activities, or with regard to employment.  The Columbia Board of Education is an equal opportunity employer.

        Contact the CPS PBS Coordinator at JARMENT@columbia.k12.mo.us