Module 3: Expectations and Routines
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Competency
Relationship Skills connote building relationships with diverse individuals and groups, communicating clearly, working cooperatively, resolving conflicts, and seeking help.
Responsible Decision-Making refers to considering the well-being of self and others; recognizing one’s responsibility to behave ethically; basing decisions on safety, social, and ethical considerations; evaluating realistic consequences of various actions; and making constructive, safe choices for self, relationships, and school. (Iowa’s SEL Competencies)
Learning Outcomes
Understand how to establish and communicate clear routines in all learning contexts, incorporating health and safety into the behavioral expectations.
Outline plan for teaching routines in various learning contexts.
Identify methods for recognizing efforts.
What I will DO in this module:
Create a Teaching Matrix that identifies new teaching situations, the routines that need to be taught, and the specific behaviors student should demonstrate.
LEARNING PATHWAY
Use the Module Slide Deck in the Module Resources below to begin your learning pathway.
The learning tasks below are in a similar order to the order of the Module Slide Deck, and slide numbers are often referenced for your convenience.
The intent of this module is to provide participants with a foundational understanding of establishing Expectations and Routines. No prerequisite knowledge is needed to engage in this learning.
LAUNCH
THINK ABOUT
Why is it important to set and teach behavioral expectations and routines?
LEARN ABOUT
Watch this video to help you better understand why it is important to teach expectations and routines to students and how teaching behavior is like teaching academics.
FIGURE OUT
Does your school have PBIS expectations that you follow in your classroom?
Do you have clearly stated classroom expectations?
If ‘no’ to both of these questions, use this advanced organizer to help you develop classroom expectations.
LEARN
DO
Create a Teaching Matrix using this template that identifies new teaching situations, the routines that need to be taught, and the specific behaviors studentS should demonstrate.
LEARN ABOUT
Explore these remote learning examples and resources. If needed, update your Teaching Matrix based on these ideas.
LEARN ABOUT
Watch this video for an example of how to teach expectations to students.
DO
Create a lesson plan to help plan your instruction on how you will teach behaviors and routines. You can use this lesson planning template to help you.
REFLECT
REFLECT
Do the expectations and routines you and/or your school has developed take into consideration the differences in behavioral expectations with respect to other cultures?
Are expectations and rules included in family and student orientation materials, including explicit statements on possible differences between school and home?
DO
Activity 1: (Optional)
WHAT IS IT? The Student/Teacher Game is a quick and easy strategy to prompt and acknowledge students for following expectations in the classroom.
WHY DO IT? The Game encourages appropriate behaviors by “catching” students engaged in expected behaviors and has been shown in research and practice to improve behavior.
DO
Activity 2 (Optional)
Teaching Expectations Considerations
WHAT IS IT? This document will help you identify things to consider when teaching behavior expectations to students, not only at the beginning of the year, also throughout the year.
WHY DO IT? Teaching behavior expectations includes more than just telling students what to do. It also includes providing feedback and monitoring if the students have learned them.
MODULE RESOURCES
Lesson Plan TeachingExpectationsConsiderations
CHECKPOINT
Checkpoints include self-assessments, quick checks, peer feedback opportunities, etc. This is a way for you to determine if you are ready to move to the next module and/or if you would like to go deeper or return to previous modules for additional learning or practice.
Self-assessment
Revisit the learning outcomes for this module:
Understand how to establish and communicate clear routines in all learning contexts, incorporating health and safety into the behavioral expectations.
Outline plan for teaching routines in various learning contexts.
Identify methods for recognizing efforts.
Collaborate
Would you feel comfortable discussing each of these with a colleague or might you need to revisit a section of learning in this module?
Celebration of Learning
Use the Celebration of Learning to: synthesize key ideas gained, network with others inside and outside of your district, crowdsource knowledge and/or design ideas, and extend your learning beyond this module.
Option #1: Reflect with a colleague regarding your classroom expectations and routines. Share how you will teach these expectations and routines. Set a goal with that colleague as an accountability partner.
Option #2: Communicate with families about the importance of establishing expectations and routines. Offer suggestions on how families could establish and teach expectations and routines at home.
