Overview

This module is a resource for PBIS Leadership Teams as they develop their acknowledgement system. After a team has identified, defined, and explicitly taught schoolwide expectations, the next step in the process is to acknowledge when students are doing the right thing. Participants will explore information from TFI Feature 1.9 on how to develop a system that recognizes the positive behaviors students have learned and are demonstrating.

Estimated Time to Complete: 1 1/2 hours

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the shift from punishment of interfering behaviors to reinforcing positive behaviors
  • Understand that encouraging positive behavior requires a two-pronged approach and must be both proactive and responsive
  • Identify elements of a responsive approach
  • Understand the importance of frequency and timing of providing acknowledgements
  • Understand the purpose of positive descriptive feedback
  • Understand how to provide positive descriptive feedback
  • Understand how incentives are used to encourage and reinforce desired positive behaviors
  • Identify important elements of adult implementation
  • Understand how acknowledgments can support staff as well as students
  • Jillian Alli, MSEd, BCBA, Consultant, State Support Team Region 3
  • Debbi Bailey, MEd, LSW Consultant, State Support Team Region 9
  • Rebecca Brinkman-Clayman, MEd-Sped, MEd-Edl, Consultant, State Support Team Region 10
  • Krista Dickens, M.Ed., Consultant, State Support Team Region 4
  • Tom Hanicak, Regional Field Coordinator
  • Kathryn Jillson, M.A., CCC-SLP, Consultant, State Support Team Region 3
  • Alexis Kirk, M.Ed., Consultant, State Support Team Region 14
  • Tom Main, Consultant, State Support Team Region 7
  • Michelle Smith, M.Ed., Consultant, State Support Team Region 8
  • Margie Spino, Ph.D. Education Program Specialist, Ohio Department of Children and Youth

Additional Documents

Acknowledgement System Example

Acknowledgments Notetaker

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