CHAMPS Positive Discipline

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to attend the CHAMPS Positive Behavior training session. It was an excellent training. I received a follow up email from them and after reading it, I wanted to share some of the ideas from that training and email. The following comes from the ideas shared in the follow up email. First the strategies and techniques presented at CHAMPS are based on the following principles:

• Classroom organization has a huge impact on student behavior.
• We should teach students how to behave responsibly for every classroom situation.
• We should focus more time, attention, and energy on acknowledging responsible behavior than on correcting misbehavior.
• We should preplan responses to misbehavior to ensure we will respond in a brief, calm, and consistent manner.

To meet the above principles, they have developed a positive behavior program around the acronym CHAMPS. CHAMPS stands for Conversation, Help, Activity, Movement, Participation, Success. This can be incorporated right into your lesson plan for each activity you do in a class period. Let's see how:

• Conversation--Can the students talk to each other during the activity?
• Help--How do students get their questions answered? How do they get your attention?
• Activity--What is the task or objective? What is the end product?
• Movement--Can students move around?d
• Participation--What does the expected students behavior look ans sound like? How do students show they are fully participating?
• Success--If students follow the CHAMPS expectations, they will be successful.