Posters promoting expected behaviour
19 August 2024
We have prepared posters for you that you can use with younger and older students. They support the expected behavior of students and are based on the Positive Behavior Support PBIS system. Learn more about PBIS, other freely available materials and training here.
Posters can be printed in color in a large format as support for the issue currently being discussed, or in black and white on A4 as worksheets in which pupils write down or draw their own observations. It is ideal to include the topics gradually and to connect the discussion with the modeling of the expected behavior. Pupils can encounter the topics during the school year, for example in classroom lessons, in the Czech (or foreign) language, or in personality and social education. In other subjects, posters can be used as part of preventive activities focused on expected behavior at school.
We recommend that students first start a discussion on a specific topic and write down the most interesting observations on the board. For example, students can be asked the question “How do you feel when you see someone angry? And what is it like when you get angry yourself?... What helps you to handle it?" (younger students) or "Have you ever noticed how the communication of others affects us? How does it make you feel when someone tells you to "calm down"? Try to find examples of sentences in pairs that you don't like and write the same message in a form that you wouldn't mind." (older students).
After you have covered the topic in discussion, it is a good idea to practice the expected behavior with the students through role-playing or model situations. For example, you can invite the students to act out two situations from the life of the class in threes - in the first they will not consider others and in the second they will try to use positive communication. The preparation and dramatization of one group takes approx. 10 to 20 minutes, so it is advisable to invite one to two groups to prepare situations during the lesson and allow enough time for reflection (approx. 5-10 minutes after each group).
Last but not least, we recommend paying attention to situations when pupils consciously or unconsciously use some of the strategies from the posters, or in general you see the expected behavior or positive communication in them - in such moments you can support the behavior with positive feedback. You can motivate students by saying, for example, "I see that you've come to an agreement" or "I'm glad that you helped Anička", or "I'm glad that we're getting along."
PBIS is a comprehensive behavior support system. The created posters are just a small piece of the mosaic. Implementing additional PBIS principles will improve student behavior and create more time for learning.
Poster 1: "What to do when I'm angry?"
Poster 2: "The Power of Positive Communication"
Poster 4: "Our Words Have Power"
Poster 7: "How is our class behaving?"