LESSON PLAN TOPIC
Step 1: Identify the expected behavior.
Step 2: Rationale for Teaching the Rule
Step 3: Identify a Range of Examples
Positive Teaching Examples
Negative Teaching Examples
Step 4: Role Play/Practice/Application
Step 5: Prompt Expected Behavior
Step 6: Assess Student Progress
Resources:
Langland, S., Lewis-Palmer, T., & Sugai, G. (1998). Teaching respect in the classroom: An
instructional approach. Journal of Behavioral Education, 8, 245-262.
Walker, H. M., Colvin, G., & Ramsey, E. (1995). Antisocial behavior in school: Strategies and
best practices. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
Sample: Lesson for Teaching Expected Behavior
Step 1: Identify the expected behavior.
Be Respectful
Step 2: Rationale for Teaching the Rule
It is important for us to be respectful of each other because we are all to here to learn and feel
safe. While we are each individuals, together we are a class and we need to find ways to work
together, collaborate, and share
Step 3: Identify a Range of Examples
Positive Teaching Examples
Negative Teaching Examples
1. The teacher is explaining the next activity
1. During library, the Librarian asks you
to the class, you show respect by listening
to come to the circle are for a story, you
quietly.
stay on the computer looking at animal
pictures. (How could you show respect
2. During recess a student who you don’t
in the library?)
usually play with asks to join your
basketball game, you show respect by
2. In the cafeteria you cut in front of
letting them join the game.
other students to get through the line
sooner. (How could you show respect in
the cafeteria?)
Step 4: Practice/Role Playing Activities
1. Have students draw pictures of being respectful by themselves, with their family, with
their friends, and for the environment.
2. Have students write a short story about when someone treated them with respect.
Step 5: Prompt Expected Behavior
1. Post the expectations in the classroom where everyone can see them.
2. Precorrect students before difficult times (e.g., transitions, cafeteria, recess, library, small
group activities, field trips, assemblies) to behavior respectfully.
Step 6: Assess Student Progress
1. Have the students color in a bar graph for every “Pride Slip” their class gets. When the
bar is full they get a class party.
2. Have the teacher track minor behavior slips and office referrals for the class.