Professional Learning Materials

Discouraging Unexpected Behaviors

Peer Observation and Self-Assessment Tool for Discouraging Unexpected Behaviors

This tool is for a brief observation between colleagues or an individual self-assessment.

Discouraging Unexpected Behavior Peer Observation and Self-Assessment Tool

Selective Scripting Observation Sheet

This tool is a selective scripting t-chart for positive and negative attention that can be used when viewing a video, listening to audio, or a live observation.

4:1 Selective Scripting Partner Worksheet

Article, Rethinking Discipline

Read about the history of traditional discipline and a shift to more effective strategies. The comparisons between approaches in academic needs versus behavioral needs provides insight on the rationale for this shift.

Leadership 1- Rethinking Discipline Article .docx

Warm Demander Chart

Analyze the differences between "The Warm Demander", "The Sentimentalist", "The Technocrat", and "The Elitist".

Warm Demander Chart, Hammond.pdf

Who Is Your Warm Demander Role Model?When encouraging a student to be his or her best, channel the pop culture figure who best embodies your resolve and respect, whether it's Coach Carter or Yoda.

The Warm Demander: An Equity Approach"Warm demander" teachers expect great things from their students, convince them of their own brilliance, and help them reach their potential in a disciplined, structured environment.

Rick Smith, Conscious Classroom Management Video: Inner Authority

Our students need us to be Warm Demanders! It’s a skill that can be learned if it’s not already innate. Rick Smith reminds us to develop our “Inner Authority” and contrasts this with “Inner Apology”.

Article, Becoming a Warm Demander

Attention: Principals, Teacher Leaders, Supportive Colleagues! Read about the balance of high expectations and high support provided to empower one another and reach more equitable outcomes for students.

Persistent and Inconvenient Behavior: What Can YOU Do?

Read pages 24-30 for several ideas about ways to respond to persistent and inconvenient behavior. If a specific problem is happening again and again, choose a strategy and make a plan. The ideas presented here have connections to several other Effective Classroom Practices for SEBH such as Active Supervision and Procedures and Routines.

Why Ignoring May Backfire: Positive Alternatives for Disruptive BehaviorSome students will stop at nothing to get attention in class. Banging on the desk, making burping sounds, making inappropriate comments - we have all exp...