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Behavioral Lesson Plan
Universal Expectation: Be Responsible
Name of the Skill/Setting: Leave No Trace in the Bathroom
Purpose of the lesson/Why it’s important:- To teach children personal hygiene skills.
- To maintain a safe, healthy, and clean environment
Teaching Examples:
1. You and a friend are using a public restroom. Your friend came out of a stall and went to the sink to wash his/her hands. You hadn’t heard a toilet flush so you ask your friend if the toilet was flushed. Your friend said, “Lots of people don’t flush in public bathrooms”. After you have asked your friend to flush the toilet you tell your friend that you expect everyone to flush wheneverusing a toilet because it is respectful. Talk about how living in a clean environment benefits everyoneand that students should do his/her part even if at times others don’s seem to dotheirs.
2. You see a friend leaving the bathroom and when you went into the bathroom you saw that there was water on the floor and soap all over the sink. Talk to the students about how it is every student’s responsibility to keep the bathroom clean and safe. Point out how someone could have slipped on the water that is on the floor. Explain that soap is harder to clean up when left on the sink.
Kid Activities/Role-Plays:
- Make a list of your students’ responsibilities pertaining to keeping the bathroom clean.
- If needed this list can be made into a checklist that can be hung in the bathroom.
- A hygiene list can also be written.
- This list can include showering, using deodorant, combing hair, etc.
Follow-Up Reinforcement Activities:
- Praise your students and let them know that it is appreciated when you catch him/her using good hygiene and helping to keeping the bathroom clean.
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Behavioral Lesson Plan
Universal Expectation: Be Respectful
Name of the Skill/Setting: Privacy in the Bathroom
Purpose of the lesson/Why it’s important:1. To teach that privacy demonstrates respect of self and respect of others.
2. When we respect others and ourselves we can take pride in ourselves.
Teaching Examples:
1.1. One of your students was waiting for another person to finish using the bathroom. Your student told the other person that he/she needed something in the bathroom but the other person was not yet coming out. The student was becoming frustrated and louder. Discuss with the students the meaning of the word privacy. Talk about how in this situation the person in the bathroom probably needed privacy. Discuss how the other person might have felt listening to your child outside the bathroom. How would the students have felt if he/she was the one in the bathroom? Discuss the difference between wanting to use the bathroom and having to use the bathroom.
2. The students needed to use the bathroom. The student’s friend was already in the bathroom but the student went in anyway. The friend looked at your child and yelled at him/her to wait outside of the door. Talk with your child about how to prevent embarrassing situations. Discuss why it is important to knock on a door before entering a room (sometimes a door can be unlocked but the person inside still wants privacy).
Kid Activities/Role-Plays:
1.Discuss ways in which students can show that they respect each other’s
privacy.
2. Discuss the relationship between privacy and respecting yourself.
Follow-Up Reinforcement Activities:
1. Praise the students for respecting the privacy of others and /or themselves.
2. If necessary remind your students of expectations before using he/she uses the bathroom.
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Behavioral Lesson Plan
Universal Expectation: Safe and Respectful
Name of the Skill/Setting: Walking in & out of the bathroom whiletake care of your business promptly
Purpose of the lesson/Why it’s important:1.Promote safety
2.Respect other student’s privacy, and personal space.
3.By being safe and respectful in the bathroom, you will allow students to feel safe and get students back to the classroom quicker.
Teaching Examples:
1. By classroom, students will file into bathroom. Facilitator will announce expectation to the group, define it, and discuss the rationale. Volunteers will then demonstrate the incorrect way to act safe and respectful in the bathroom (e.g., running to and from bathroom, hitting or touching other students, yelling or talking loudly, looking under stalls or over the tops of stalls, two or more people in stall or looking at others using urinals, sitting or hanging on sinks, stalls, or urinals.) Students that are observing will rate the performance by holding up pre-made signs that say, “wrong way” or “right way”. A set of students will then demonstrate the expectation the right way (e.g., walk to, from, and in bathroom, use indoor voices, use toilet/urinal promptly and exit immediately, keep all body parts (any part that is covered by clothing) to self, wash hands after going to the bathroom). Students will then be asked to hold the signs up again. Volunteers will be acknowledged with reinforcers (pencils/erasers).
Kid Activities/Role-Plays:
1. Each individual class will be asked to demonstrate. The remaining class(s) will rate the demonstrating classroom with performance cards
Follow-Up Reinforcement Activities:
1. Provide specific verbal praise to students after practice session
2. Daily, for the first three weeks of school, teachers provide precorrections (reminders about what the bathroom expectations are as part of classroom bathroom breaks and individual breaks).
3. Weekly, next four weeks of school. Students will be reinforced with tickets. A video will be created to show students as needed for reinforcement.