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Goal for Cafeteria Behavior: The lunch area will be a safe, clean environment where students interact with courtesy and respect. Students have time to eat in a pleasant environment while showing appropriate lunchroom behaviors.
Entering the cafeteria:
Students should enter with lunch cards already in hand.
Buyers will walk down the center of the lunchroom in a single file line.
No cutting in line.
Lunch kits walk straight to their assigned table and take their seats.
Voice level 0, until at table
Avoid horseplay
Eating at the cafeteria table:
Stay seated on pockets the entire time.
Table talk (eye & shoulder partner)
Eat your own food
Raise hand if you need something
Restroom (Red & Blue Cones)
Utensil/Materials
Water
Open package
Clean up your area
Appropriate school talk
Hands, feet, and objects to self
When using the restroom, go straight there and back to your seat, no stop and talk
Exiting the cafeteria:
Countdown “Stallions 5, 4, 3, 2, 1”
Silently collect trash, stay in your seat as trash cans rotate around table
Students sit on level 0 while wait to be dismissed
Voice level 0 and single file when walking to paved area to recess
No cutting in line
Avoid horseplay
Common Language:
When sitting at the table: “Sit on your pockets.”
When using the restroom: “Go, flush, wash, leave”
When cleaning up to dismiss: “Collect trash and wait for trash can.”
When counting down: “Stallions 5-4-3-2-1”
Students should have:
Eyes on speaker
Mouth is closed (level 0 conversation)
Ears are listening
Hands and feet are still
Brain is thinking
How will the staff encourage and correct the appropriate cafeteria behavior?
Use common language and implement the plan with fidelity
Positive verbal reinforcement of those exhibiting the correct behavior
Clear and consistent corrections of the correct behavior
Model and reinforce desired behaviors
Practice the correct behavior as a corrective action
Reinforce desired procedures/expectations by using incentives
Be proactive, visible, and consistent
Interact with students in a positive and support
Direct Teach
Beginning of the Year (August-September)
As needed for classrooms
Activities:
Introduce the concept of personal space and what you may do in that space during lunch. Have them create their own placemat on a large construction paper. The students can decorate the mat to emphasize the expectations during lunch. Have students script or write the expectations for the cafeteria on the back of the mat. Students will use this mat during “Cafeteria Kickstart.”
Read “Harrison Spader, Personal Space Invader” and relate to cafeteria expectations.
Make an anchor chart of examples/non-examples by the teacher and/or students listing or drawing then sorting.
Guided Practice
After long breaks (November, January, March)
As needed for classrooms
Activities:
Bring back out the student placemats to use during the lunch period (in the cafeteria or in the classroom).
Use common language language consistently and in the precise moment necessary to reinforce, highlight, and correct behaviors. Encourage students to use the common language as well.
Employ active practice as a correction with teacher support as necessary.
Check for Understanding
After long breaks (November, January, March)
As needed for classrooms
Activities:
Beginning at one side of the room, have the 1st student in the front of the row turn around and ask the student behind him/her a question related to cafeteria procedures to check for understanding. The 2nd student answers the question, then turns around and asks the student behind him/her a related question to check for understanding. The 3rd student answers the question…procedure continues at teacher’s discretion.
Teacher can brainstorm some scenarios and help problem-solve through the situation referencing the cafeteria expectations.
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