Instructional Playbook

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Classroom Adjustment: Active Supervision

Protocol Classroom Arrangement : Arrange your classroom so that you have physical and visual access to all parts of the classroom Classroom Routines : For high traffic areas of your classroom, create detailed routines for the use of these spaces in order to minimize disruptions due to high volume. Identify Problematic Activity or Setting : Identify which activity or setting that students are frequently off-task or likely to engage in disruptive behavior. Create a Plan : Determine a strategy for increasing active supervision during that activity or setting .The plan should include: planned physical circulation routes throughout the classroom using a variety of pathways to ensure proximity to all students periodic visual and auditory scanning of student behavior frequent interactions with students correcting errors and providing positive feedback, ensuring at least a 4:1 ratio of positives to correctives Collect Data : Identify a data collection method so that you can easily monitor your own follow-through with your active supervision plan as well as the effectiveness of increased active supervision on minimizing behavioral disruptions. management strtegies a teacher can implement. Teachers can utilize active supervision to maintain instructional control in the whole class, in small groups, as well as with individual students. Active supervision is a research-based intervention that involves purposeful and intentional teacher behavior. According to Sugai et al. (2002), active supervision is one of the most effective behavior

Level of Teacher Effort

Low High Medium

Target Students

Considerations

Works well with all students, but may be especially helpful for: students who may benefit from teacher proximity and increased positive feedback to maintain or increase positive behaviors in the classroom.

Ensure that students understand the behavior expectations for the activity or setting (some students may need reminders or support). Specific students may require more intensive active supervision than others.