Barometer Behaviors

Here’s how we are proactive and reactive, and how we provide tools of support to ensure the success of every student.

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Essentials

These essentials are shared among Daily 5, CAFE, and Math Daily 3.

8.1 Teacher engagement (proactive)

  • Teacher builds positive relationships with students.
  • Students are taught social/emotional skill competencies.
  • Students are taught to be self-aware, and to self-manage.
  • Teacher explains behavioral expectations; students practice.
  • (CAFE) Teacher individually confers with student(s) who are showing off-task behavior, identifying and teaching self-management skills (Step 8 of the 10 Steps)

8.2 Tools to advance behavior progress

  • Engage students in the choice of a good-fit tool. Options include graphs, timers, stopwatch, modeling clay, I-Spy book, alternative seating, fidgets, stress ball, and others.

8.3 Teacher engagement (reactive)

Use of rewards and punishments is replaced with the following:

  • Loop instruction—Teacher confers with child about behavior goals, allows child to practice independently, and loops back to the child to revisit goals.
  • Walk-about brain break—Teacher sends student to specified location to deliver or retrieve item and promptly return (for example, to library with book, to office with note). Explain purpose to student.
  • Extra practice time—Teacher finds a few extra minutes to revisit behaviors with student and allows student to practice outside of class stamina-building time.
  • Teacher records interactions with student in conferring notebook.
  • Teacher offers just-right challenges (materials, assignments, and expectations that are a good fit for the student).

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