Ezard (Conway) Elementary School

Expected Behavior: WE ARE READY TO LEARN School-wide Expectation in ALL SETTINGS

STEP 1: TELL

What we require

Why we require it

All students have an opportunity to learn.

STEP 2: Specify student behaviors

Discrete

Sequential

Observable

Child-friendly language

MATRIX BEHAVIORS: Give your best effort. Be prepared. Stay focused. Listen to teacher.

STEP 3: PRACTICE

Activities

Model

Practice

Demonstrate

Model examples (student and teacher)

Model ALMOST-THERE examples and non-examples (teacher only)

Provide frequent reminders THEN CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING AS IS AGE-APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR CLASS—

o Related literature (see back) o Activity (see back) o Expound upon quotes o Role play in classroom

STEP 4: MONITOR

Independent practice

Feedback

Vary position in classroom and during transitions

Before students transition to another activity, ask them to tell you how to “be ready to learn.”(pre-correct)

Reinforce (verbally, loops, etc.)

Remind

Correct

STEP 5: Review

Review and practice throughout year

Formal observation

Feedback—praise appropriate behavior and identify problems

Ask students “How did we do today (regarding being ready to learn)?”

Teacher notes:

What could I do differently?

How could this lesson have been better?

Follow-up lesson needed?

Sample Activities:

Create an anchor chart

Create a poster entitled… “10 Ways to Be Ready to Learn” or “How to Be a Problem

Solver”

Practice several callbacks to use in the classroom

Literature Ideas (even older kids like children’s literature):

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper

Amazing Grace by Hoffman

QUOTES:

“To succeed, do the best you can, all the time you can, where you are, and with what you have.” Oscar Arias

“Never, never, never give up.” Winston Churchill

“It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get back up again.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are never a loser until you quit trying.” Mike Ditka