New Redirection Guide

You are waiting outside your classroom monitoring students walking to their next class. Your school has a no cell phone policy and you see a student that you do not teach pull a phone out of his pocket to show a friend a picture. You remind him of school expectations but he doesn’t listen to you so you approach him requesting he gives it to you as he slips it into his pocket and claims to not have one.

What should you do?

What level of behavior concern is this:

You see a student walking to their next class and they are yelling to get the attention of another student. You calmly and politely redirect the student by putting your pointer finger to your lips for the universal shhhh sign but they continue yelling.

• Minor

• Moderate

• Severe

• Office-Managed

John is normally a student that comes to class prepared and ready to learn. Today however, he has tried to start conversations with students during classwork, and when corrected by the teacher said, ‘this work is easy, it’s not like we’re learning anything.'

According to the Carter Redirection Guide, what is an intervention you should take?

Sally has been in a bad mood since the beginning of class. Another student asks the teacher a clarifying question about the assignment, and Sally says, “What are you, fu***** stupid? She said it three times already!”

This is a moderate behavior. Please select all of the interventions you should use in this situation.

• Immediately remove the student from the classroom.

• Re-Teach (Refer to Respect Agreement)

• Contact Parents & Document Behavior

• Notify grade level BSI & include documentation and interventions taken.

• Follow up directly with the students involved.

During class, you hear a student start singing while working on a written assignment. You calmly and politely remind the student that silence is expected during assignment unless given permission so that everyone can get their work done. The voice level gets lower but does not stop.

What do you do?

A student comes to class who is obviously on drugs or drunk. You can tell they aren’t their normal self and the students in the class are making comments about their behavior.

How should you handle this situation? (Select all that apply.)

• Discreetly contact the office.

• Send the student by themselves to the office.

• Refer student to the Drug Intervention program.

• Confront the student directly, in front of the class.

• Document behavior

Paul rarely comes to class on time. Today he was counted absent, but was brought to class by a behavior support interventionist (BSI). The student was intending to skip. What next steps does the teacher need to take?

• Change attendance to "Present."

• Note in the attendance when the student arrived and with who.

• Immediately have a conversation with the student about skipping your class.

• Contact parents.

• Follow-up with BSI.

What level of behavior concern is this:

A student is wearing a shirt that has a marijuana leaf on it. You remind the student the of the dress code and give them the option to go turn their shirt inside out. The student refuses saying, "c'mon miss, it'll be legal here soon."

• Minor

• Moderate

• Severe

• Office-Managed

Nicole was suspended from school because she was caught cyberbullying.

What is a strategy you can use to help the student transition back to the classroom?

• Outwardly acknowledge positive behavioral changes.

• Report updates to the BSI after 2-3 days.

• Assume the student will continue the behavior.

• Start with a clean slate

As you are teaching, a handful of students find themselves being pulled into a negative interaction. It starts small with a minor put-down, but soon grows as each student escalates the conflict with greater and more significant put downs.

What should you do?