What is School-Wide PBIS?
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a process for creating safer, more effective schools by reinforcing positive behavior and preventing and addressing problem behavior. Valders Elementary is focusing on Tier 1 of PBIS for the 2017-2018 school year. Tier 1 focuses on setting and teaching behavioral expectations in all areas of the school including the playground, hallway, bus, classroom, and cafeteria. Throughout the process, data is collected on student behavior. This data is then used by administrators and the school PBIS committee to identify and more effectively implement the practices that are right for our school.
What are the key components of PBIS?
There are four key elements used in successful PBIS implementation. They are:
1. clearly defined academic and behavioral outcomes for students and staff
2. practices based on teaching and modeling proper behavior
3. data used to guide decision making
4. systems that help the practices of PBIS to be accomplished faithfully and sustainability.
Why is it important to recognize good behavior in students? Shouldn't they already know how to behave?
When students have trouble with reading, we teach. When students don't know their multiplication tables, we teach. When students struggle with expected behaviors, PBIS gives us the tools to teach.
Traditional approaches to behavior often respond with punishment or consequences, under the presumption that children should have already mastered good behavior. These types of approaches often don't work well on their own. Since the expectations have not been clearly established, children often have difficulty seeing and understanding the differences between correct and incorrect behavior.
PBIS gives school staff tools to determine, teach, and model expected behavior. With these tools, schools are able to successfully increase the positive behavior through on-going recognition. This modeling and practice becomes infused in everyday life in a school. A positive school culture maintains positive behaviors in the school.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a process for creating safer, more effective schools by reinforcing positive behavior and preventing and addressing problem behavior. Valders Elementary is focusing on Tier 1 of PBIS for the 2017-2018 school year. Tier 1 focuses on setting and teaching behavioral expectations in all areas of the school including the playground, hallway, bus, classroom, and cafeteria. Throughout the process, data is collected on student behavior. This data is then used by administrators and the school PBIS committee to identify and more effectively implement the practices that are right for our school.
What are the key components of PBIS?
There are four key elements used in successful PBIS implementation. They are:
1. clearly defined academic and behavioral outcomes for students and staff
2. practices based on teaching and modeling proper behavior
3. data used to guide decision making
4. systems that help the practices of PBIS to be accomplished faithfully and sustainability.
Why is it important to recognize good behavior in students? Shouldn't they already know how to behave?
When students have trouble with reading, we teach. When students don't know their multiplication tables, we teach. When students struggle with expected behaviors, PBIS gives us the tools to teach.
Traditional approaches to behavior often respond with punishment or consequences, under the presumption that children should have already mastered good behavior. These types of approaches often don't work well on their own. Since the expectations have not been clearly established, children often have difficulty seeing and understanding the differences between correct and incorrect behavior.
PBIS gives school staff tools to determine, teach, and model expected behavior. With these tools, schools are able to successfully increase the positive behavior through on-going recognition. This modeling and practice becomes infused in everyday life in a school. A positive school culture maintains positive behaviors in the school.