Barometer Behaviors

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)

8.3 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).