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Question

• Think-Pair-Share• What are some keys to or strategies for effective

behavior management? Write your responses.• Not all behavior management/behavioral support

methods are created equal.

Why Important• Increased learning/time on task• Better perception of PE & PA (not a joke)• Increased teacher satisfaction and fewer departures

from the profession (#1 reason Ts leave)• Increased safety• Increased social skills/responsibility• Be prepared for any school environmentWithout control, you have nothing

When does managing behaviors begin?

• When a student misbehaves?• No, long beforehand

• This presentation:1. Creating a Positive Atmosphere2. Designing a Proactive Management Plan3. Instructional Interventions

Learning names - Be persistent, knowing a student’s name greatly increases their accountability (WPHS)

• Practice during attendance• Label a photograph (get permission)• Past yearbooks• Use names when addressing (greet and dismiss)• Squads/assigned location grid• Brief note/description in attendance roster or adjective with

name (Blue-eyed Brianna)• Check names during assessments/assignments• Name games at start of year

1. Creating a Positive Atmosphere

Positive strategies• Model from teachers you enjoy/enjoyed• Post records (fitness, coop)• Play music• Tell students/class what they are doing right

• Teachers who are always negative get tuned out and it makes PE & PA less enjoyable

• Strive for at least one positive per negative (1:1)

Positive Gymnasium

• Non-naked gym – makes physical education and physical activity more educational and inviting. It’s your classroom!• Posters• Pictures of students/

activities• Wall/floor art

• Project for the art dept

WPHS

Teacher Expectations• You set the bar/tone for your gym• What standard of behavior am I expecting during this presentation?

• You’re going to listen, raise your hand, not talk with others, and work on problems given. End of story! Anything other than that and you’re going to hear from me!!

• Got to be FIRM – beware laughing, joking when inappropriate

2. Prevention - Designing a Proactive Management Plan1. Prevention – set yourself up for success• 80% of behavior management issues are related to TEACHER

PLANNING (Lavay, Frency, & Henderson, 2006)• Poorly planned lessons = poorly behaved students• Boring activities, waiting in line, not enough equipment, already mastered

skills (developmentally inappropriate), groupings, inadequate directions, too many transitions

• Make every class engaging and FUN. Incorporate activities with high activity time & use small sided games that reduce the “fishbowl” effect

• Consider the following:• Complexity of drills, number of partners, amount of equipment, area of

playing surface, setting (gym v. outdoors), teaching styles

Provide for middle and high school classes. It’s basically a contract between the instructor and students. Includes :• Rules for the class

Day 1 OrientationSample syllabi

• Donegal MS, Athens Area HS, Daniel Boone MS, Tamaqua Area HS,

2. Prevention - PE Syllabus

Organization

• Set yourself up for success:• If control is challenging, do not have students sit on

top of or next to one another; you are asking for trouble. Spread them out.

• Consider using a grid with numbers and letters on the wall.

• Have Ss sit where they are after an activity instead of all in the center circle

1 2 3 4

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B

C

D

E

2. Prevention – Planning Transitions• Transitions are a danger area in a lesson• Think about the following:

• Moving from one area to another, equipment, grouping, timing, how many transitions

• Goal is short, sweet and clear

1. Preinstruction – Planning Transitions• Transition - What would you say? 24Ss, 6th gr.,floor

hockey dribbling

2. Prevention – Assessment

• In some schools, PE is not part of the grade. Work to change that.

• Penn. Standard 10.4.12D (~NASPE 5) – “Assess and use strategies for enhancing adult group interaction in physical activities.”

• Level of Involvement Scale (Farmington, Naugatuck)• Elements of Hellison’s Model

2. Prevention – Assessment• Make sure you are assessing students in the

standards and all 3 domains (P, C, A)• Students are more likely to behave and learn if they

know they are accountable• Rubrics from skill classes

• Net & Wall, Fitness Wellness

2. Prevention – Creating Routines• Tasks that are repeated frequently benefit from

establishing routines to ensure consistency and reduce confusion• Routines eliminate confusion and increase instructional time.• Do not leave any part of a routine open to interpretation• CONSISTENCY!

• What are some examples of routines for a PE?• Practice• Answers

2. Prevention

• Stressing character or human virtues• Lots of research in this area

• Check out charactercounts.org and character education• Example from SSW

2. Prevention

• Hellison’s Model of Personal and Social Responsibility• Sequential so students can

compare and move-up the levels over time

• Hellison in-action• Examples: 1, 2

2. Prevention

• Post Hellison’s model on the wall or just the level 5 behaviors (age appropriate).

• Use closure questions related to personal and social responsibility (thumbs up/down, touch answer on wall, 1 question quizzes)• Ask questions:

• Did someone help some today? How?• Who said something that encouraged someone?• How would a level five person get equipment? (prompting)

2. Prevention• Game Face - – appropriate tone and demeanor (firm, organized,

purposeful). Exude a confidence that you WILL keep the class under control and certain behaviors ARE expected and those contrary will NOT be tolerated

• Be dynamic and motivating while teaching (ON STAGE). • “You’re awesome,” “great hustle,” “someone has got their game on today” – Mr.

Pulisciano, Cheshire, HS• Provide continual feedback, this reminds students the teacher is

engaged with and monitoring class• Circulate around the gym - don’t “root” in one place. • Keep things moving & watch for activities “petering” out• Awareness talk – whole class discussion when something

happens (ignoring most often makes things worse)

2. Prevention - “Catch Being Good”• Write names of students who did something good on the

board (opposite the norm)• Secret Student - Draw a name from a pile of paper scraps

containing all the student's names. Keep this name a secret. The students know (from you having told them) that this selected person will be watched to determine if they have behaved well and the class is deserving of a reward.

From: www.behavioradvisor.com

More on “Catch Being Good”• The Raffle Ticket System - Award cut-up pieces of paper

to kids who are on task, answer questions, etc. Don't be stingy. There will only be one drawing at the end of the period or day...thus only one prize given away

• Name on the Board – Kids who behaved properly that day.

From: www.behavioradvisor.com

More on “Catch Being Good”• Bell system - Use a kitchen timer. Tell the students that

you will be evaluating their behavior at the moment the bell sounds and offering a reward later. Set the timer for any time between one minute and twenty minutes (shorter times for classes that misbehave more often). Do not let the students see the timer.

• Student of the day gets to be line leader or the person right after line leader (very coveted either way!)

From: www.behavioradvisor.com

Using Reinforcers

Token Economy• Whole class – accumulating points toward a class reward

• Example: “If we’re good, we have time for the fun games planned”• Example: At the end of each class, the teacher writes a class’s score

(0-100) on the board. 10 point deductions are made during class for not following the rules. The class with the most points at the end of a month gets a reward.

• Example: Create a chart that tracks the number of stickers a class earns for “good” behavior. Once a class earns 10 stickers for example, a reward is administered.

• Individual – collecting PE bucks or school bucks (usually with principal’s picture) towards a reward you specify

Prevention• Firmness – Is it easier to start loose and become

more firm or start firm and loosen up? Why?

• T/F: Endeavor to be friends with your students?

PreventionBuilding Rapport• Have fun; show your personality (within reason)• Smile when appropriate and have a good sense of humor• Demonstrate concern for students• Relate to students in and out of classroom (talk before/after class)• Get to know their world (Facebook, break dancing club)• ALWAYS remember though, you are the teacher and not one of

their friendsIf students “like you” they are less likely to misbehave and

will fear “letting you down.”

3. Interventions: When Prob-lems Arise

YOU ARE NOT BEING MEAN!!!!!!• Don’t feel guilty about discipling

students!• You are teaching them self control,

discipline, character, appropriate standards of behavior.

• These are VALUABLE LESSONS – You are in fact doing them a favor.

• Better to learn now as opposed to later.

Notice Misbehavior• This sounds self evident but it’s

not. • Many STs fail to notice obvious

things like chatting, tapping sticks, moving around on the floor.

• To miss little things is human, many little or major things is poor management.

• Think of it like the three types of parenting:• Authoritarian – dictator, hostile• Permissive – laissez faire (non-assertive,

hands off)• Authoritative – firm, calm, confident

• May fluctuate but authoritative is generally the best

3. Types of Authority

1st Line of Defense1st line of defense: non-invasive strategies. Use when you

want to stop misbehavior but want to avoid verbally addressing it. Using non-invasive techniques makes class less negative and also increases instructional time by not having to devote time to the misbehavior.

• Proximity• Eye contact• Hand gestures• Vocal variety• Name in a sentence

- Series of Consequences• Develop a series of consequences that works for you. Here is an

example. • West Philadelphia HS

• Verbal or non-verbal warning or reminder• Adjust level of involvement score• Phone call home (sometimes earlier, depends on home)• Community service

• Lunch – students given 10 minutes to get lunch, report to gym, eat (usually with me), then perform some service (dust mop gym, pick up trash, set-up for next class). This was a great time to get to know the student and just talk

• After school – similar to above• Assignment (from fitness/health textbook)• Referral to administration (dreaded pink sheet)• Parent conference – 3 way with me, student, and parent(s)/guardians(s)

• Students are in lunch detention until this is completed

Strategies for Misbehavior• Planned Ignoring – use when behavior (what is reinforcing) is

benign, short, and doesn’t affect the group (nudges their friend). • BE CAREFUL – DO NOT ignore too much or it will get worse

• This is a frequent error with beginning teachers• Wait time – can’t get to the next activity or the culminating activity

until proper behavior is displayed. Don’t overuse!• “I’m waiting for everyone to listen.”

Strategies for MisbehaviorVerbal interventions• Don’t nag or plead (shows weakness) – follow through

•1 warning or zero warnings is enough!

• If you warn 5X’s, students learn they can misbehave 4 times before a consequence.

• 3 strike rules – not a fan

Strategies for MisbehaviorTime Out – removing a student from an activity

• Avoid calling it time-out in middle school or high school, can be insulting. Instead say:

• “Sit out for a moment please.” • Do not allow students to avoid selected activities

• DO NOT make time out reinforcing• i.e. Talk, explore, engage passers by, get involved

• Only under severe conditions should a student be sent to the office/principal

• Administrators want to know you can handle your classroom

• Using Time Out as a Learning Experience• Verbally debrief situation (why, how improve, etc) when a student

returns from time-out if you have time

• Time Out Worksheets (good cross-curriculars as well): 1, 2

Talking BenchTalking Bench• Students attempt to resolve their own dispute.

• Student answer a series of age-appropriate Q’s• What caused your disagreement?• Explain how you felt.• What solution did you agree on?

• Two options:• Have the questions on the wall. Students answer the questions

verbally and the teacher questions students to determine if the conflict was appropriate resolved. If yes, the students return to activity, if not, the students return to the talking bench.

• Each student write their responses on a form which is given to the teacher

• Example

Strategies for Misbehavior

• Exclusionary – similar to time-out but student remains a part of the lesson with some restrictions

• Examples: • Move back from the circle where everyone is sitting• Student is not allowed to speak or answer questions• Student is not allowed to work with certain other students during the

remainder of class or for a period of weeks/months

• Restricted Play (elementary) – students are still participating in activity but with restrictions

• Example: in a bowling group but can’t bowl, in a tag game but can’t tag, playing soccer but can’t shoot

Strategies for MisbehaviorVerbal Reprimands

• Concise• Listen please (not “stop talking”)• Hands to yourself (not “stop it”)• "What should you be doing right now?" • Look and sound like you mean it! Have a good “game face!”

• Expanded – Telling students what behavior is unacceptable and why• Eli, please hold onto the ball. I find it distracting as do other students.• Book: “Joy, interrupting is impolite. It makes it difficult for others to follow my

instructions. Please wait until I have finished to ask a question.”• DO NOT ridicule, insult, demean

• If a student loses face, you’ve lost them (peer reputation is powerful)• Students will turn against you• NEVER yell at students or use disrespectful language (that is a loss of control on your

part)

Strategies for Misbehavior• Talking with Students

• 1 on 1• I messages, active listening (echo), decide upon a

solution together and get student to verbally agree to it, avoid the never ending lecture

• Avoid “power struggles” in front of the class because the student is on stage and most likely, they won’t back down

• Better to talk individually with students while the rest of the class is active

Strategies for Misbehavior• Contracts – behaviorally focused agreement between you

and a student• Daily report – often used in combination with a contract• Premack Principle – reward students with activities they

choose independently.• Letter of Apology - Have the off-task student write a letter of

apology to the injured party which is signed by the parents.• Personal examination – Reflect on one’s actions and how it

affects others. Turn in to the teacher.

Difference in Health

• Seating assignment• When in doubt, don’t allow to pick spot (alphabetical,

allow to sit anywhere FIRST DAY only)• Changing activities every 15 minutes

Practice

• ST Scenarios - Work in groups and decide how your groups would respond to the situation.

• If an approach isn’t working, try something else. • Seems obvious but isn’t

• The power of REFLECTION

Conclusion

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