CHAMPS
A Proactive & Positive Approach to
Classroom Management
AUGUST, 2012
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Session Objectives:
•Provide an overview of CHAMPS
•SLANT expectations
•Apply use of Voice Levels
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A Classroom with No Structure
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CHAMPs: What IS It?
• A set of decisions the teacher
must make in order to structure
the classroom for success.
• A common language among staff.
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CHAMPs: What it is NOT?
• A Canned Program
• All teachers ARE NOT expected
to have the same CHAMPs
expectations!
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CHAMPs Goal:
Develop a classroom of students
who are:
Responsible
Motivated
Highly engaged in task
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CHAMPs Basic Beliefs:
Teachers can structure and organize their
classrooms to prompt responsible student
behavior.
Teachers should overtly and
consciously teach students how to behave
responsibly in every classroom/school
situation.
CHAMPS Acronym
Acronym reflects “categories”
or types of expectations that
you, as a teacher need to
clarify for students for major
activities or transitions in your
classroom.
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5 Main CHAMPs Modules:
STRUCTURE
Vision
Organization
Management Plan (Expectations)
TEACH EXPECTATIONS
Expectations
Launch
Motivation
OBSERVE STUDENT BEHAVIOR
Observe
INTERACT POSITIVELY
Motivation
Class-wide Motivation
CORRECT FLUENTLY
Correcting
STOIC
Structure
Determine
the level of
structure
you need.
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Structure
Determine
whether your
students need
high, medium,
or low structure
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Teach Expectations
• The first step is to make a list of the major types
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of activities that students will engage in on a
daily basis.
This list may include:
Attendance routines
Small group instruction
Sustained silent reading
Taking tests/quizzes
Peer tutoring sessions
Teacher-directed instruction
Independent work
Class meetings
Centers/lab stations
Cooperative Groups
Teach Expectations
Sample Lesson Plan for
Teaching CHAMPs is on the
NTO website
Sample CHAMPs
Moving to and from small groups
Conversation: No (Voice Level 0)
Help:
Raise their hand at their desk or from where they are seated
for the small group.
Activity:
Teacher will announce which group should come to the
small group area. Students in that group should gather their
materials, push in their chairs, and come quickly and quietly
to the reading area. All students should be in the small group
area within 30 seconds of the announcement.
Movement:
Come or leave the small group area.
Participation: Students will go directly to the correct location quickly and
quietly. No moving immediately. No talking or poking
someone, knocking things off desks as they pass by. No
running or making noise on the way.
Let’s Practice
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1. CHAMP out the activity
written on the index card
as a table group.
2. There are enough copies
of the blank template for
each of you to take.
3. We will collect one copy
from each table. They will
be scanned and loaded
onto the NTO Website.
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CHAMP
it out!
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Make and Take!
Conversation
Help
Activity
Movement
Participation
Success
Behave with Care

Use the 5 Questions
 Use the School-wide
Behavior Management System
Re-Model & Practice
Common Language:
SLANT (Active Listening)
Sit Up
Do Now
Lean In
Actively
oUse
pipeEngaged
cleaners (the
Nod for of
Understanding/Note
Taking
middle
the table) to create
Track
the Speaker
an
object
that represents
something about yourself. Be
prepared to share.
Common Language At DMA:
Voice Levels (0-4)
0 – No Sound / No Talking
1 – Whisper Do Now
2 – Quiet
people (the
near you can hear)
oUse
pipe (Only
cleaners
3 – Presentational
Voice to create
middle
of the table)
4 object
– Outsidethat
Voicerepresents
an
something about yourself. Be
prepared to share.
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• SHARE!
• QUESTIONS?