Module:

You're in Charge! Developing Your Own Comprehensive Behavior Management Plan

Assessment

Although it's important to keep in mind that the components of your comprehensive behavior management plan aren't written in stone on the first day of the school year, you'll want to give them serious consideration before spending a lot of class time teaching them to your students.

Please answer the questions below. If you have difficulty answering them, go back and review the Resource and Perspectives pages in this module.

1.	Are the rules that you created: Specific? Observable and measurable? Positive? Five or fewer? And do they convey expected behavior?
2.	Do you need to create any additional procedures? (Although you might not have time to create them now, you might want to try to develop a comprehensive list of procedures before you enter your classroom.)
3.	Do the procedures you've created address potential problem behaviors in a positive tone?
4.	Do you have all three types of age-appropriate positive consequences: Free and frequent? Intermittent? Strong and long-term?
5.	Do you have plenty of negative consequences arranged in a hierarchy of about six levels?

New teachers often find the prospect of creating a comprehensive plan overwhelming. To lessen your anxiety, try to have as much as possible in place on the first day of school, but remember that your plan is not unchangeable. Listen now as Lori Jackman explains that there are effective ways to edit parts of your plan that aren't working––even after the school year has started. (Time: 1:08) View Transcript

Lori Jackman, PhD Johns Hopkins University