Teaching School-Wide Expectations

Teaching School-wide Expectations

Lesson Plan

School-wide Expectation #1: C- Be Cooperative

Definition of expectation:
To be cooperative means to willingly act or behave in a way that promotes a common purpose or benefit. When we follow staff directions without protest, we are being cooperative.
Rationale for having this expectation
When we work cooperatively, we create a peaceful and productive environment where we can learn, make friends and be safe.
Positive examples: “looks like” / Non-examples
Listening and responding appropriately to adult directions/peers / Off task/Not following directions
Walking and following hallway expectations / Running in hallway
Acting in ways that promote positive peers and staff relationships. / Being argumentative or defiant.
Acting to do what is best for the entire school, not the individual. / Being selfish/only considering your own outcomes.
Listen to each other without interrupting; encourage everyone to join in are willing to hear and accept the ideas of others and are willing to change roles in the group. / Interrupting others while they are speaking; poor communication skills yelling; student defiant towards peers and/or others.
List 2 resources (website addresses, curriculum with location, books with page numbers, programs with lesson plan number, etc.) you will use to teach this lesson plan. Be specific enough so the resources can be located by anyone.

Elementary: LEAPS; Chart paper/white board, markers, scissors to make a “How to be a Cooperative Person” document, bag or hat to draw from

Middle:

List the steps of this lesson plan (Include lesson format, activities, and materials). Be detailed enough so the lesson can be implemented by anyone.
Elementary School Lesson Plan for Cooperative

Break the kids into four groups and tell them they’re going to make music. One group claps, one group whistles, one group taps on their seats, one group makes shushing sounds with their mouths (like cymbals). Each group plays their sound when you point to them, the object is for each group to get itself coordinated into something that sounds good without talking to the other member(s) of the group. In order to accomplish this they have to listen to what each other is doing and adjust accordingly. Point to the groups’ one at a time, letting each group work out their rhythm. If they struggle to coordinate, help them by providing a beat. Then, start adding the groups together allowing time for them to adjust what they’re doing until the sound is cohesive. Eventually, you’ll have all the groups going at once in a well-coordinated ensemble. When the concert is over, ask the kids what made this activity fun and why it required cooperation to make it work. What would have made it work better? If it didn’t work, why not? Create a list of strategies for being cooperative on chart paper.
Have students break into small groups (2-3). Cut the skills from “How to be a Cooperative Person” into strips. Have each group select a skill out of a bag and discuss it in their small group. Then, each groups will share their skills, and give an example of how we can use that skill at school.
Have the students break into small groups (3-4). Collect the skills strips, and put them back in the bag/hat. Have each group select a skill, and create a role play of how to demonstrate that skill at school. After presenting their skit, the other students will guess what skill they were exhibiting.

Middle School Lesson Plans for Cooperative

Conversation starters: Teacher starts out with various conversation starters for class discussion.

What does the word cooperate mean to you?
How does your family cooperate?
What is fun about working in groups?
What can be frustrating when working in groups?
Tell about a time you cooperated with your friends.
What is something you have to do to cooperate at school?
Can you think of any examples of cooperation in nature?
Alexander Graham Bell said, "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds." What does that meanto you?
When is it okay to be un-cooperative?

Play video on cooperation – have the student’s discuss the importance of cooperation and the success and outcomes. Than discuss how this can relate to the classroom and as a team cooperating together to achieve different goals.
Next brainstorm some classroom goals this year and post up on board. Create a poster with classroom goals in mind and a picture to represent cooperation for the group to have posted all year long.
Choose any of the next few activities to do:

Group Portrait
Learning Objective: The group will cooperate to create a "self portrait"
Materials:
~crayons, markers, paint, or colored pencils
~1 piece of large white construction paper per participant
Instructions:
1. Begin by asking each person to fill their paper with a picture of their own face.
2. Individuals may use whatever art medium you provide to create their own face.
3. When all of the faces have been finished, collect them and cut them each into 4 equal pieces
4. Mix the pieces and work as a group to reconstruct the portraits using 4 different pieces from 4 different people.
5. Glue the 4 different pieces together on one piece of paper to create a new face.
6. While you are working on this project talk to the group about what it means to cooperate and how we all have to do our part to create something together.
Cup Tower challenge click link to see lesson.
Spider’s Web

Start this activity by attaching string at various places and different heights in a room so that the string forms a spider web. Divide the students into two teams. Select one person from each team to be blindfolded. The goal of the activity is for the members to instruct the blindfolded student to go through the spider web to the other side of the room by giving commands and holding their hands. This will help the teams to communicate using team work and cooperate while building trust.

Nine Gold Medals

Read Nine Gold Medals to the class.
The activity is a puzzle activity. Students are divided into small groups. The teacher will distribute a puzzle to each one of the students. The pieces to the puzzle would be given to them in plastic baggies. The baggies will contain all but three or four of the pieces to their individual puzzle. The missing pieces from each student’s puzzle will be contained in other classmates’ baggies. The students will have to notice that pieces of their puzzle are missing and then problem solve to complete their puzzle.
Reflection: Once the activity is completed, ask the students to sit down at their own desks. The teacher will ask them to write what they thought about the poem and the activity and how the poem related to the activity. The teacher would then ask the students to pair up into groups of two or three and share with each other their reflections. After about five or ten minutes, the teacher will ask if anyone would like to share with the rest of the class his/her reflection.

Let Me Teach You

As a class, or in groups, prepare a 30 minute presentation for underclassmen on teamwork/cooperation.  Define cooperation  Explain why cooperation is required  Explain times where teamwork is needed throughout life  Include two teamwork activities  Conclude with a summary of information

WHEN will this lesson plan be taught?
Beginning of school year date(s) and time(s): / August 21, 2017 (In every classroom/every period)
(Ongoing daily schoolwide DO NOW/Morning Work)
~ July to August- Daily
~ September to November- Weekly
~ December to June- Biweekly
It will be embedded into the first 2 weeks’ procedures and policy instructions. Each teacher will have covered the material within the first 10 school days.
After long holidays / Use your quarterly team meetings to not only review and analyze your behavior data, but to plan and develop additional lesson plans you will use throughout the year to re-teach and reinforce this expectation.
3rd quarter
WHO will teach this lesson plan? / WHERE will the lesson plan instruction occur?
Classroom Teacher / Classroom Setting

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Lesson Plan

School-wide Expectation #2: O-Be Organized

Definition of expectation:
We will be organized and prepared for school each day with our supplies and work. To be organized is to have organization to coordinate and carry out activities.
Rationale for having this expectation
When we are organized, we can become focused, productive, and achieve our goals. We can learn to do things more quickly and efficiently.
Positive examples: “looks like” / Non-examples
Classroom area is clean / Sloppy area
Homework is written in the agenda / Forgetting homework assignments
Papers are organized in a folder / Being argumentative or defiant
Have all supplies and materials to learn / Not having required materials
Use agenda daily / Lost agenda book
List 2 resources (website addresses, curriculum with location, books with page numbers, programs with lesson plan number, etc.) you will use to teach this lesson plan. Be specific enough so the resources can be located by anyone.

Elementary: Anchor Charts, Picture Cards, Classroom desk, folder, notebook and agenda

Middle: School Agenda Book

Student will work in groups to organize a desk by stacking books and materials in the desk.
Teacher will model how to complete the agenda book for homework.
Every day teachers will check to see that homework has been copied in the agenda.
Teachers will have students model how to walk in line throughout the school and in the cafeteria.
Students will participate in classroom meetings to discuss the importance of being organized.
Students will picture cards to classify organization and disorganization.

Middle school Lesson plan for Organized

Each teacher will post the topic of the day, as well as homework for students to easily see. When the students arrive to class the teacher will instruct them, as a “DO NOW” to copy the topic and homework in their agenda. Teacher models using agenda daily.
Teacher will give “Pop” quiz on items the students should have written down on previous days. Example- What was the lesson topic on August 23rd?
Students will use their agendas to document their login information for web based software including USA Test Prep., I-Ready, BEEP, Pinnacle, etc.

WHEN will this lesson plan be taught?
Beginning of school year date(s) and time(s): / August 21, 2017 (In every classroom/every period)
(Ongoing daily schoolwide DO NOW/Morning Work)
~ July to August- Daily
~ September to November- Weekly
~ December to June- Biweekly
It will be embedded into the first 2 weeks’ procedures and policy instructions. Each teacher will have covered the material within the first 10 school days.
After long holidays / Use your quarterly team meetings to not only review and analyze your behavior data, but to plan and develop additional lesson plans you will use throughout the year to re-teach and reinforce this expectation.
3rd quarter
WHO will teach this lesson plan? / WHERE will the lesson plan instruction occur?
Classroom Teacher / Classroom Setting

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Lesson Plan

School-wide Expectation #3: L-Be a Leader

Definition of expectation:
We will conduct ourselves in a dignified and respectful manner, and lead others to do the same.
Rationale for having this expectation
Student will be able to role-model positive behaviors throughout the campus.
Positive examples: “looks like” / Non-examples
Following school rules without having to be prompted / Horse playing
Use your manners (please, thank you, excuse me) / Teasing, name calling, demeaning others
Help others when needed / Not telling a teacher when there is a problem
Share equipment during recess / Refusing to share
Be accountable for your actions / Not taking responsibility for breaking a rule or procedure
List 2 resources (website addresses, curriculum with location, books with page numbers, programs with lesson plan number, etc.) you will use to teach this lesson plan. Be specific enough so the resources can be located by anyone.

Elementary: CHAMPS; PBIS.org

Middle: and

List the steps of this lesson plan (Include lesson format, activities, and materials). Be detailed enough so the lesson can be implemented by anyone.
Elementary School Lesson Plan for Leadership: Follow the Leader

Buddy up the students, one will be the ‘leader,’ the other will be the ‘follower.’
The follower will be blind-folded or keep their eyes closed.
The leader will direct the follower around the room giving them verbal commands, making sure they do not bump into other students or furniture.
The students will then change positions. The follower will become the leader and then do the same activity.
The students will come together and discuss the activity and their feelings regarding being able to trust their leaders and their commands.
Finally, students will be able to create a chart and list all of the responsibilities of being a leader.

Middle School Lesson Plan for Leadership

Students will complete a journal response to the prompt “Think about someone in your life that you consider to be a leader. What makes this person a leader? Discuss your experiences with this person. What leadership attributes does this person exhibit?”
Put students in groups of 3-5. Give each group a marker and a pad of post-it notes. Each person in the group will take turns discussing their journal entries. Every time a leadership characteristic trait is mentioned, write it down on one of the post-its. If the trait is mentioned more than once, put however many slash marks on that post-it.
Come together as a class, have the groups come together and stick the post-it notes in a general location in the classroom.
Have a discussion about the traits presented. Use the guiding questions: How did you decide on your leader to write about? What did you notice about the different attributes each of you shared? Did anyone else come to mind after seeing the character traits listed on the board? Are there any other traits you would like to add? Which of these attributes do you possess? What attributes would you like to develop as a leader?

WHEN will this lesson plan be taught?
Beginning of school year date(s) and time(s): / August 21, 2017 (In every classroom/every period)
(Ongoing daily schoolwide DO NOW/Morning Work)
~ July to August- Daily
~ September to November- Weekly
~ December to June- Biweekly
It will be embedded into the first 2 weeks’ procedures and policy instructions. Each teacher will have covered the material within the first 10 school days.
After long holidays / Use your quarterly team meetings to not only review and analyze your behavior data, but to plan and develop additional lesson plans you will use throughout the year to re-teach and reinforce this expectation.
3rd quarter
WHO will teach this lesson plan? / WHERE will the lesson plan instruction occur?
Classroom Teacher / Classroom Setting

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Lesson Plan

School-wide Expectation #4: T- Be Trustworthy

Definition of expectation:
We will always be truthful and honest, even when it is not the easy choice.
Rationale for having this expectation
Trustworthiness is an important value for students to develop. Teaching trustworthiness curriculumhelps to teach students to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Being honestand trustworthy helps students to practice self-control and to tell the truth rather than give into theimpulse to lie to escape punishment.
Modeling trustworthy communication and choices helps students to see the benefits of being atrustworthy person. It is important for students to see the benefits of being a trustworthy person –gaining trust, gaining privileges and responsibilities, as well as to see the consequences of beingdeceitful or undependable – loss of trust, loss of privileges, etc. Learning about trustworthiness and thebenefits of being trustworthy helps students to develop the values of being an honest and dependableperson.
Positive examples: “looks like” / Non-examples
Report to your designated area / Wandering the hallways in the mornings or during class periods
Following adult directions the first time / Continuing to do the action/behavior after already told to stop
Reporting items that are found throughout our campus / Finding money that doesn’t belong to you or anything that could harm another student on campus and not reporting it
List 2 resources (website addresses, curriculum with location, books with page numbers, programs with lesson plan number, etc.) you will use to teach this lesson plan. Be specific enough so the resources can be located by anyone.

Elementary:

Middle:

List the steps of this lesson plan (Include lesson format, activities, and materials). Be detailed enough so the lesson can be implemented by anyone.
Elementary Lesson Plan for Trustworthy
The first link is for the elementary level. It has different stories for different grade levels that deal with trust, along with different mini-lessons on teaching trustworthiness. Each lesson is broken up my an overview, the materials the teacher needs, and the procedure, so there is no planning necessary, everything is right there in the PDF that you need for this lesson.
Middle School Lesson Plan for Trustworthy
The second link is for the middle school level and has a self-evaluation survey that you can give to the students, followed by discussion questions, which can be used to lead a classroom discussion on trustworthiness, 6 different writing prompts specifically related to trust and 4 different activities.
WHEN will this lesson plan be taught?
Beginning of school year date(s) and time(s): / August 21, 2017 (In every classroom/every period)
~ July to August- Daily
~ September to November- Weekly
~ December to June- Biweekly
It will be embedded into the first 2 weeks’ procedures and policy instructions. Each teacher will have covered the material within the first 10 school days.
After long holidays / Use your quarterly team meetings to not only review and analyze your behavior data, but to plan and develop additional lesson plans you will use throughout the year to re-teach and reinforce this expectation.
3rd quarter
WHO will teach this lesson plan? / WHERE will the lesson plan instruction occur?
Classroom Teacher / Classroom Setting

Teaching School-wide Expectations