Activity Expectations

What Is It?

Providing clear behavioral expectations for instructional activities ensures students know how to be successful during the day. They can be practices at the beginning of the year and after any long break and reviewed regularly prior to beginning an instructional activity.

Why Use It?

This strategy helps teachers develop a concrete set of consistent expectations based on each specific activity in their classroom.

Instructional Steps:

1. Think of all of the activities you do throughout the day (ie: entering the classroom, exiting the classroom, direct teach, group work, transitions, independent work…) and make a list of anticipated problem behaviors for each one.

2. Change those statements into a positive (what you want students to do, not what you want them NOT to do.)

3. Take your list from step 2 and create 3-5 behaviors expectations that are stated in the positive.

4. Create visuals to post and reference every time you change activities.