Traps
This refers to trying to change junk or serious behavior through negative or aversive interactions that can produce guilt, humiliation, fear, or discomfort.
What is Educator Traps
What? “What happened next?”
How? “How did that happen?”
Who? “Who was there?”
What are open-ended questions?
Natural, Man-made, Immediate, and Delay
What are the types of consequences?
Intensify Classroom Expectations from Classroom PBIS
What is Set Expectations?
Any age-typical behavior that is annoying,
but is not physically harmful
to self, others, property, or animals (not a safety issue)
What is junk behavior?
Students respond three ways to educator traps
What is Avoid, Get Even, Escape?
Avoid interrupting
Stop talking
Let the student speak more than you
Avoid problem solving
What is listening?
Increase, decrease, have no effect
What are the effects of consequences on behavior?
The reason the behavior should be learned and then continued even when the arranged consequences are done.
What is the benefit?
Keep your mouth closed
Avoid making any sounds
Don’t say “Stop that”, or “Quit doing that!”
What is Say Nothing?
Short term compliance followed by long term problems
What is the outcome of educator traps?
Students will care about your approval/disapproval
Associate positive emotions (feels safe, cared for, valued, listen to, validated) with school (*OAISD Awareness PD: Addressing Significant Disproportionality)
Elicits brain chemicals that are ideal for learning (Restorative Practices)
Teaches good communication skills, social awareness, and builds community
Students will listen to your expectations
What are the benefits to using the Stay Close Tool?
To get something, to avoid/escape something, habit, development, relieves pain, feels good to do.
What is why behavior happens?
I saw you help your classmate with their math problem yesterday.
I noticed you wiped down the tables after Science class.
On Friday, you helped a friend with their homework
What is praise a previous behavior?
Provide plenty of positive reinforcement for appropriate behaviors (5 to 1 ratio - Classroom PBIS)
Stay close
When Pivoting away from junk behavior during a task or activity, continue doing the task or activity with the student
If junk behavior happens often when the child does a certain task, give frequent, short breaks during the task
What are ways to avoid an Extinction Burst?
Giving negative consequences for undesirable behavior (taking away privileges, possessions or points) to try to get rid of the behavior.
What is punishment?
Match emotion
Remember “It’s not WHAT you say, but HOW you say it that counts”
Relax
Open your arms
Face the student with eye contact
What is appropriate body language?
Tell the student what behavior you liked
(if this is appropriate)
If the appropriate behavior happened more than 30 minutes from the time you asked them to do something
If you are not there when the appropriate behavior happened
If you did not specifically ask for the student to do a behavior
Consider preference (subtle vs public)
What is behavior specific praise?
When we “punish,” we corrode our relationships and only teach what not to do
This can lead to an increase in junk and serious behavior, severity, and negative emotions associated with school (Restorative Practices and TCIS)
We should always try to teach the right way by modeling appropriate educator behavior
What is Why Discipline over Punishment?
Calmly tell them what to do instead
What is redirect to a positive alternative?
Teach, Model, Motivate
What is the definition of discipline?
Identify the student’s feelings
Let them know you hear what they are saying and care about their feelings
Make statements to let the student know you see they are affected by their situation
What is showing empathy?
Avoid educator traps
What is Stay Cool?
Understanding why behavior occurs
Getting rid of barriers to a positive environment
Increasing appropriate behavior through Reinforcement
Developing good communication through Stay Close
Using Discipline instead of Punishment: Modeling, motivating and teaching desirable behavior
(Set Clear Expectations & Follow through)
What are the guidelines for developing a positive environment?
Using ABCs when junk or serious behavior occurs
Identifying what needs to be taught
Setting expectations frequently for new behaviors and situations
Modeling the expectations and having the student practice the expectations
Using reinforcement frequently for following expectations and engaging in appropriate behavior
Staying close frequently to learn what needs to be taught
What are ways to Redirect less?