Teach To's: 100 Behavior Lesson Plans and Essential Advice

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The Teach To's book contains over 100 lesson plans to help teachers "Teach To" classroom expectations. Also included is a detailed explanation of the best way to teach students these expectations.

Research has indicated that teachers using "Teach To's" and other Time To Teach strategies regain from 5 to 9 extra hours of instructional timeevery week they had previously lost by spending time on constant low-level classroom interruptions.

List of Behavior Lesson Plans from the Teach To's book

Elementary Teach-To's:      (Scroll down for Secondary Teach-To's)

• Announcements
• Apologizing
• Asking for help
• Audience behavior
• Backpacks
• Bathroom
• Bus Line
• Checking out books
• Coming from recess
• Communicating with others
• Completing homework
• Cross age buddies
• Drinking fountain
• Eating in cafeteria
• Emergency drills
• Encouraging others
• Ending day
• Entering auditorium
• Entering cafeteria
• Entering classroom
• Entering library
• Exiting auditorium
• Field trip
• Following directions
• Getting in groups
• Going to recess
• Greetings
• Group work
• Guest speaker
• Hallway
• Independent reading
• Independent work
• Leaving classroom
• Lining up
• Listening
• Maintaining your area
• Morning routine
• Music
• Partner share
• Peer tutoring
• Playground
• Playground equipment
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Problem solving
• Raising hand
• Refocus - Graceful Exit
• Refocus - Graceful Entrance
• Refocus Moment
• Refocus - Welcome Back
• Respect property
• Sharpening pencil
• Signal clean up
• Sitting at desk
• Substitute teacher
• Taking a test
• Trying your best
• Turning in homework
• Turning in work
• Using recess time
• Walking in line
• Washing hands

Secondary Teach-To's:

• Addressing teacher
• Announcements
• Assembly
• Assignments
• Audience behavior
• Backpacks
• Bathroom usage
• Check out books
• Clean up
• Communicating with others
• Distributing material
• Entering library
• Emergency drill
• Getting in groups
• Hall pass
• Hallway
• Homework
• Independent work
• Leaving classroom
• Listening
• Moving chairs
• Moving around room
• Obtaining help
• Oral presentation
• Partner share
• P.E. attendance
• Prepared for class
• Raising hand
• Refocus - Graceful Exit
• Refocus - Graceful Entrance
• Refocus Moment
• Refocus - Welcome Back
• Respect property
• Sharpening pencil
• Substitute teacher
• Taking a test
• Tardy to class
• Trying your best
• Video instruction

Important Additional Pages

• Teach-To Rubric Introduction
• Teach-To Rubric
• Teach-To Rubric Scoring Mechanism
• Teach-To Improvement Questions
• References
• Blank Elementary Teach-To Templates
• Blank Secondary Teach-To Templates