Behavioral Expectations
For better performance among students within different levels of education to be realized, Howard (2013) found that developing and maintaining better behaviors among students remain a major factor. Therefore, students must ensure that they portray appropriate behaviors based on the principles and regulations that govern their conducts while in school. Students being human beings, they are also prone to mistakes; hence, in order to assist them develop and maintain apposite conducts; learning institutions must ensure they develop and enforce better students’ management plan. These include coming up with well defined norms for their students and some of the consequences that students need to face in the process of breaking the set rules and regulations (Howard, 2013). For instance, a student who causes disruption in class when lessons are on may face disciplinary action. Some of the advantages of developing and maintaining better behaviors among students include having better relations with other students and teachers, it improves students’ performances and it helps students to develop better morals within them.
Although there are various behavioral expectations that are demanded from students, some of the most important behavioral expectations from students include being respectful to all, attend classes in time and pay attention during class lessons, be responsible and should not have discussion with other students when lecturers are on (PBIS, n.d.). Having respect to all demands that students should show respect to their lecturers by following instructions and guidance provided by their lecturers and they should respect one another as students. Moreover, students are expected to respect other supporting and subordinate staffs. Students are also expected to attend classes in time and pay attention to the lectures. For instance, students should not direct their tutors to go through some of the learning materials that were discussed in their absence. Instead, they should look for these materials and conduct their private learning with other students or even lecturers but not during class time. Additionally, should are expected to be responsible by taking class assignment and examinations, dressing decently and using better language when talking to their lecturers and other students as revealed by Howard (2013).
In teaching the above students behavioral expectations, it is required that relevant examples are used. For instance, in explaining the importance of being respectful among students, quoting of some respectful students who perform well should be used. Using real and available examples will help students to have better understanding on the advantages of the above behavioral expectations (PBIS, n.d.). Another approach of teaching the above behavioral expectation is through taking students to other schools where the above student’s expectations are practiced. This will helps them to observe their colleagues behaviors, study and react with these students in order to discover and understand the importance of developing and maintaining positive behaviors in school. Moreover, the last approach in teaching the above behavioral expectation is through having programs and creating awareness on the importance of developing and maintaining appropriate behavioral expectations among students.
For the development and maintaining of better behavioral expectations among students to be achieved by learning institutions, schools should develop better strategies towards motivating their students. For instance, to encourage students to be respectful, students who show respect to their teachers and other students should be promoted to be leaders such as student leaders, class secretaries and other student’s positions in schools (Howard, 2013). Similarly, the best and appropriate approach of motivating students who attend their classes in time and ensure they concentrate during learning should be given presents when they perform well in their studies and examinations. Such actions will also help in motivating other students to develop and maintain better behaviors in school as well as within their society. Additionally, students who show some responsibility such as having better language and dress codes and take part in class activities should be motivated through recognition. This is the motivation approach where these students are recognized by the institutions in various ways. For instance, an institution can nominate and reward a student because of being neat.
School environment being a society with students from different background and cultural practices, not all the students are expected to develop and maintain good behaviors. Thus, learning institutions must ensure that they have in place certain acts that need to be taken in case a student breaks norms governing behavioral expectations (Howard, 2013). Hence, some of the consequences that may be available for students with behaviors contrary to school rules and regulations include facing of the disciplinary committee constituted by the organization, banning of students from attending some class lessons and expulsion in case the behaviors are extreme. Therefore, in order to avoid the above consequences, students will be expected to behave as demanded by the principles and norms of the organization.
After ensuring that better rules have been constituted and all the students have been informed, the next stage is the implementation and operations of the rules. In order to determine the effects of the rules, an appropriate data collection method would be required. One of the best data collection methods for determining the effects of norms governing behavioral expectation among students is observation. This can be conducted through attending lessons while noticing the behaviors of students during lessons, checking class attendance progress, observing timing especially when lecturers find students when they are already in class or there are some lateness still being observed and analyzing reported cases relating to behavioral expectations (Howard, 2013). Otherwise, developing and maintaining better behavioral expectations is an important tool towards better performance and should be enforced within learning institutions.
References:
Howard, W.L. (2013). Exceptional children: An introduction to special education (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
PBIS. (n.d.). Discovering School-Wide PBS: Moving Towards a Positive Future. [Video File]. Retrieved from: http://www.pbis.org/swpbs_videos/pbs_video-discovering_swpbs.aspx
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