Respectful
Tell- Show- Practice- Feedback-Reteach
Tell-
Talk about the expectations in the matrix and what they mean. Refer to the matrix
Show- Teacher model
Teacher will model correct and incorrect ways to be respectful.
Only teacher will demonstrate non-examples
Non-Example: Josie wears her new outfit to school. Alexis laughs at the outfit because it isn’t the in style type of clothing to wear.
Example: Tom likes to wear his hair short in a buzz cut just like his dad. Maleke likes to wear his hair in long dreadlocks like his dad. Tom and Maleke are best friends.
Example: Sue forgot her coat on the playground so she raises her hand and asks the adult if she can go back outside to get it.
Non-example: Peter has to go to the restroom, so he gets up and leaves the cafeteria without asking for permission.
Example: Justin is finished working on his assignment so he stays seated in his chair, and raises his hand to ask his teacher if he can work on the computer.
Practice- Role Play-What should this expectation look like at McAuliffe?
Role-play how to react when someone is not being respectful of differences.
Ask students for examples: Ask students to role-play a real life-example of students greeting a friend with a smile. Remember, the teacher role-plays nonexamples of when students greet friends with their voice.
1) Provide specific feedback to students as they practice the skills and show they are being kind. “Josh did a great job of greeting his friend with a smile. That was very kind!”
2) AFTER you have discussed and role played what it looks to greet a friend with a smile, give students precorrects. For example, "Remember to greet friends with a smile
Feedback- Pass out star cards and use Discussion questions
Praise students whenever they attempt to get adult or teacher attention appropriately.
Ø Discuss how to help a friend if they are having trouble with someone who is not being respectful.
Ø Have students research the “American Melting Pot”. Look into where different foods, customs, forms of dress, etc come from, and how these have all come together to be considered American.
Ø Discuss times when it is important to respectfully get adult or teacher attention.
Ø Discuss what to do if an adult or teacher is not immediately available to help.
Ø Discuss when you have observed student getting adult or teacher attention appropriately during the day.
Ø ASK- Is there anything you dislike about the way people treat each other here at school? Do you know of any disrespectful behavior? Describe it. How do you feel about it?
Ø What do you like most about the way people treat each other here at school? Does it have anything to do with respect?
Ø What is a bully? Is bullying an act of disrespect? In what way? Are there bullies here at school? Can someone be a bully without meaning to be? How?
Ø How can treating people with respect prevent fights?
Ø When you are with a group of kids, what things might other kids do or say that make you feel good? What things make you feel bad?
Ø How does treating people with respect affect your friendships?
Reteach- Illustrate and connect to classroom environment
Ø Create graphs about how your students are the same and different.
Ø Make a class contract in which the kids lay out a set of rules for having a respectful classroom. What will be the penalties for violating the rules?
Ø Brainstorm ways to make your school environment more respectful. Create a list of recommendations, and place them in your school newspaper or on a poster.
Ø Write a letter to an imaginary bully, telling this person what he or she is doing that you don't like, why you don't like it, and how you want this person to behave instead.
Ø Are kids ever picked on at your school? What do they get picked on about (height, weight, appearance, disability, accent, skin color, etc.)? Exactly how are they picked on? How do you think these kids feel about this? How do you feel about it?
Ø “What are some ways we greet friends when we are not a school (e.g. high five, say ‘Hi’, hug)?”
Ø “What do you think you should do if a teacher or Mr Jones talks to you in the hallway?” Discuss the difference between greeting a friend versus responding to an adult.
Ø “Why do you think it is important to be kind in the hallways at McAuliffe? and greet friends with a smile?”
Literature Connections
k-2 / 3-6Amazing Grace byMaryHoffman
Mr. Lincoln's Way by: Patricia Polacco
My Tongue is a Volcano by: Julia Cook
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue by: Julia Cook
A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners
by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler and David Lee Csicsko / Maniac Magee byJerrySpinelli
The Book of Virtues for Young People: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
byWilliam J.Bennett
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin
Sources:
1. Columbia Public schools PBS website http://www.columbia.k12.mo.us/staffdev/cpspbs/
2. Copyright Elkind+Sweet Communications / Live Wire Media.
Reprinted by permission. Copied from www.GoodCharacter.com
Quotes
“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.