PBIS at Prairie Trail School: A General Overview
The main focus of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is to provide a clear system for all expected behaviors at Prairie Trail School. While many faculty and students may have assumptions of what is expected behavior, we cannot assume that everyone’s beliefs are similar. Through PBIS, we will work to create and maintain a productive, safe environment in which ALL school community members have clear expectations and understandings of their role in the educational process.
Proactive Approach to School-Wide Discipline Schools that implement school-wide systems of positive behavior support focus on taking a team-based system approach and teaching appropriate behavior to all students in the school. Schools that have been successful in building school-wide systems develop procedures to accomplish the following:
1. Behavioral Expectations are Defined.
3. Appropriate Behaviors are Acknowledged. Once appropriate behaviors have been defined and taught, they need to be acknowledged on a regular basis. Prairie Trail School has designed a formal system that rewards positive behaviors. PT PRIDE Tickets are immediate forms used by the individual teacher, at their discretion, as a tool of encouragement and a student motivator. Use PT PRIDE Tickets to encourage and reinforce positive behaviors demonstrated on a consistent basis. Teachers can award PT PRIDE Tickets to students, whether they teach them or not (please see PT PRIDE STORE page for a type of redemption).
4. Behavioral Errors are Corrected Proactively. When students violate behavioral expectations, clear procedures are needed for providing information to them that their behavior was unacceptable, and preventing that unacceptable behavior from resulting in inadvertent rewards. Students, teachers, and administrators all should be able to predict what will occur when behavioral errors are identified. Minor Referrals are used to document and record incidents managed by the teacher in the classroom. Office Discipline Referral forms are used to refer major incidents or chronic disruptions to the administration (please see Referral Process page for more details).
Proactive Approach to School-Wide Discipline Schools that implement school-wide systems of positive behavior support focus on taking a team-based system approach and teaching appropriate behavior to all students in the school. Schools that have been successful in building school-wide systems develop procedures to accomplish the following:
1. Behavioral Expectations are Defined.
- Be Responsible
- Be Safe
- Be Productive
- Be Respectful
- Be Responsible means following school rules and doing the things good citizens should do.
- Be Responsible means being on time and ready to learn with appropriate materials.Be Safe means practicing self-control and exercising caution.
- Be Productive means being ready to learn and producing quality work
- Be Respectful means treating people the way that you would like to be treated.
3. Appropriate Behaviors are Acknowledged. Once appropriate behaviors have been defined and taught, they need to be acknowledged on a regular basis. Prairie Trail School has designed a formal system that rewards positive behaviors. PT PRIDE Tickets are immediate forms used by the individual teacher, at their discretion, as a tool of encouragement and a student motivator. Use PT PRIDE Tickets to encourage and reinforce positive behaviors demonstrated on a consistent basis. Teachers can award PT PRIDE Tickets to students, whether they teach them or not (please see PT PRIDE STORE page for a type of redemption).
4. Behavioral Errors are Corrected Proactively. When students violate behavioral expectations, clear procedures are needed for providing information to them that their behavior was unacceptable, and preventing that unacceptable behavior from resulting in inadvertent rewards. Students, teachers, and administrators all should be able to predict what will occur when behavioral errors are identified. Minor Referrals are used to document and record incidents managed by the teacher in the classroom. Office Discipline Referral forms are used to refer major incidents or chronic disruptions to the administration (please see Referral Process page for more details).