Establishing
high expectations for behavior and learning enables our community to See Our Achievements Rise!
One of the best ways to help students meet rigorous academic expectations is to first set
high expectations for behavior.
In rethinking discipline, charters have the opportunity to lead the way by ensuring
that high expectations for behavior are about love and growth.
Not exact matches
We also find that
expectations inform
behavior in other contexts:
for instance, workers who express a
higher perceived chance of losing their current job over the next twelve months also search harder
for a new job and exhibit a drop in spending plans relative to the present over the same time horizon.
High expectations includes having clear standards
for behavior and involvement and at the same time giving reasons
for decisions, being open to questions and negotiations and often being flexible in the execution of
expectations.
While permissive parents tend to be warm and loving, because they don't have
high expectations for their child's
behavior, the child doesn't have opportunities to learn how to deal with frustrations and other facts of life.
That doesn't mean that an activity will always be full of fun or totally interactive — we can set
high expectations for children and their
behavior regardless of the environment and, let's face it, time in won't always be a party.
If teachers of color hold
higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and
behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.
a set of extremely
high expectations for students and families with regard to academic performance, a strong work ethic, appropriate
behavior, and responsibility.
The
highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit
expectations for both academic achievement and
behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation
for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.
According to research sponsored by the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA), they include (1) feelings of safety among staff and students; (2) supportive relationships within the school; (3) engagement and empowerment of students as valued members and resources in the school community; (4) clear rules and boundaries that are understood by all students and staff; (5)
high expectations for academic achievement and appropriate
behavior; and (6) trust, respect, and an ethos of caring (Bryant & Kelly, 2006; Elfstrom, Vanderzee, Cuellar, Sink, & Volz, 2006; Perkins, 2006).
They know that the community cares and wants to see them succeed, and they respond by rising to the school's
high expectations for learning and
behavior.
[iii] To the extent that students attending schools with more demanding
expectations for student
behavior hold themselves to a
higher standard when completing questionnaires, reference bias could make comparisons of their responses across schools misleading.
The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role
expectations, provision
for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership
behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (
high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).
From administrators to guidance counselors to teachers, schools must institute
high expectations for both academic achievement and
behavior.
Communicate and enforce
high expectations and standards
for behavior and academic performance, aligned with the LHA School Culture Guide and Responsive Classroom, to create a strong culture of achievement and respect.
Build community around
high expectations for students through implementing
behavior management systems.
White teachers have lower
expectations for students of color, and are significantly less likely to expect Black students to finish
high school and college» School staff frequently perceive Black boys as threatening and dangerous
for the same
behaviors that are seen as innocent
for White students.»
A successful arrival system engages the transportation staff in holding
high expectations for student
behavior, and
for maintaining safe functionality of the bus space.
One main concern is reference bias, or the effect of survey respondents» reference points on their answers.37 Students,
for example, attending competitive schools often rate themselves as having less self - control or as less hardworking because of their schools» rigorous
expectations.38 Accordingly, some experts caution that using SEL to classify schools could ultimately punish
high - performing schools while rewarding low - performing schools.39 Additionally, teachers may misinterpret
behavior, erroneously rely on first impressions, or incorrectly equate their opinion of a student with the student's social - emotional skills.40
Teachers should create a new environment and have
high expectations for their students in the classroom, and teach proper academic
behavior.
Ensure that school discipline policies specifically and positively state
high expectations for student
behavior, promote respect
for others, and make clear that engaging in harassment and violence, among other problem
behaviors, is unacceptable.
For student behavior expectations, high - performing CMOs were found to place a stronger emphasis on the following: use of a student behavior code with clear consequences for misbehavior, positive reinforcements for desired behaviors, use of a «zero tolerance» policy for potentially dangerous behaviors, and consistent schoolwide enforcement of the behavioral standards and policies in pla
For student
behavior expectations,
high - performing CMOs were found to place a stronger emphasis on the following: use of a student
behavior code with clear consequences
for misbehavior, positive reinforcements for desired behaviors, use of a «zero tolerance» policy for potentially dangerous behaviors, and consistent schoolwide enforcement of the behavioral standards and policies in pla
for misbehavior, positive reinforcements
for desired behaviors, use of a «zero tolerance» policy for potentially dangerous behaviors, and consistent schoolwide enforcement of the behavioral standards and policies in pla
for desired
behaviors, use of a «zero tolerance» policy
for potentially dangerous behaviors, and consistent schoolwide enforcement of the behavioral standards and policies in pla
for potentially dangerous
behaviors, and consistent schoolwide enforcement of the behavioral standards and policies in place.
According to the report, CMOs with positive impacts tend to emphasize two practices in particular:
high expectations for student
behavior and intensive teacher coaching and monitoring.
So through collaboration, book studies, workshops, and the adoption of Whole Brain Teaching, we made significant strides in improving our
behavior management system and setting
high expectations for our students, improving our parental involvement significantly, and dramatically increasing student engagement.
North Star's educational philosophy incorporates
high expectations for achievement
for both academics and
behaviors in the elementary grades K — 5.
We were consistent in our
high expectations for the children's learning and
behavior, and lovingly firm in keeping them to those goals.
For the next several weeks, you may have high expectations for good, cooperative behavi
For the next several weeks, you may have
high expectations for good, cooperative behavi
for good, cooperative
behavior.
Based on age and sex findings, cutpoints were set to identify approximately 25 % of children in the at - risk range
for problems and 10 % to 15 % as low in competence, a
higher threshold than
for problems, due to an
expectation that significant social - emotional delays will be less common than significant problem
behaviors.
On the other hand, low EE staff are described as being able to control feelings when confronted with difficult
behavior, warm, and seeing the need
for patients to be independent, despite having lower
expectations.40, 42 These analyses highlight the potential role of staff attributions
for patients» problems in the development of
high EE.
Child gender and child health status at birth were included as part of the analytic design because boys have been shown to have
higher rates of aggressive
behavior than girls and cultural norms are thought to influence the
expectations for maturity and limits of acceptable
behavior (Campbell, 2002).
Results indicated that (1) depressed patients and their spouses were less dyadically adjusted than nondepressed spouses, (2) causal and responsibility attributions about depressive
behaviors predicted lower dyadic adjustment, and (3) attributions of causality mediated the relationship between group status (depressed or nondepressed) and dyadic adjustment among spouses who had
higher expectations for their partner to change.