Friday, August 31, 2012

Cool Tool - Nurse's Office


PBIS COOL TOOL:  NURSE’S OFFICE

UNIVERSAL EXPECTATION:  Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Ready to Learn

SKILLS
Setting
Respect
Responsible
Ready

Nurse’s Office
Only enter when the nurse is present, Wait for your turn to talk, Wait until the nurse is off the phone or is done with another student, Show respect by considering others’ privacy, Ask permission to use any of the supplies in the nurse’s officeAsk your teacher for a pass, Go to the nurse only if you feel sick, if you hurt yourself, or you need to take medicine, Ask for a pass to go back to classBe safe, wait your turn, and use a Level 1 Voice


SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING STANDARDS:
Goal 1 -  Develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success.
Goal 2 - Use social-awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships.
Goal 3 - Demonstrate decision-making skills and responsible behaviors in personal, school, and community contexts.
PURPOSE OF THE LESSON:
Students will learn acceptable reasons to go to the Nurse’s Office.  Students will learn to get a pass to enter the Nurse’s Office.  Students will learn the expectations while in the Nurse’s Office.


TEACHING EXAMPLES:
  1. Reasons to go to the Nurse’s Office include: feeling sick (fever, vomit, shaking chills), hurting yourself, or to provide a note from your doctor.
  2. When entering the Nurse’s Office, students can show responsibility by having a pass from a teacher.
  3. Students can show responsibility by not going to the Nurse’s Office during passing periods.
  4. While in the Nurse’s Office, students can show respect by waiting their turn and asking permission to use any supplies.
  5. While in the Nurse’s Office, students can show respect by only paying attention to themselves and respecting others’ privacy.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES/ROLE PLAYS:
  1. Have students discuss what they need in order to go to the Nurse’s Office.
  2. Have students role play their behavior in the Nurses’ Office.
  3. Respond to the following scenarios:

  • You enter the nurse’s office to give her a note from your parent.  What do you do?  (Look and Listen to see if she is on the phone or with another student. You may need to wait.)
  • You have to take your medicine after lunch.  You go to the nurse’s office and you see that the Nurse is on the phone.  What do you do? (Wait your turn.)
    4.   Are the following reasons to go to the Nurse’s appropriate or                     inappropriate?
  • Vomiting (A)
  • Headache (A)
  • Get a drink of water (I)
  • Use the phone (I)
  • Hurt in gym class (A)

FOLLOW UP/ REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES:
(Check for student buy in)

1. Give verbal praise and wings to students who are caught following the procedures while on the way to the nurse’s office and in the nurse’s office.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Welcome!

Welcome to Mr. Brandstrader's 7th Grade Social Studies class. This year, we will be studying world cultures and religions, geography, genocide and tolerance. During the first quarter, we will learn the basics of geography using our Geography Alive! textbooks and iPads. 

Topics and Projects include:


  • Basic Geography (Ch.1-2)
  • Sim City Mapping Project
  • Current Events

A complete syllabus and schedule will be posted here on September 4th.  We will also review and discuss the syllabus in class at that time.  

This week, we will discuss building procedures and expectations; classroom procedures and expectations; team building exercises; and iPad training. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at 224-765-3273 or at bbrandstrader@nssd112.org. 

Best, 
Mr. Brandstrader