Journal Entry #6- School-Wide Systems

Effective school-wide management means there is a consistently enforced plan to address both negative and positive behaviors throughout the school. My own belief about managing behavior is that it is important to have consistency, there needs to be clear guidelines and expectations, and there needs to be both positive and negative reinforcements for both positive and negative behaviors. PBiS is one method to praise positive and expected behaviors throughout the whole school. I feel it is an effective way to enforce the behaviors because students earn special privileges as a whole and have clear goals they are working towards. It is also effective because it can be discreet if more private praise is appropriate in a situation. From my current knowledge of PBiS I do not know what they have in place to address negative and unexpected behaviors. I believe everything I have seen has been a school-wide intervention plan or classroom plans, I would like to see more information on PBiS to know if there are interventions to deal with negative behaviors in place or that are recommended. At my current placement there are behavior plans that need to be filled out when there are a number of unexpected behaviors though out the day as well as an online template students can fill out if they feel they are being bullied.