Managing Your Behavioral Covenant/Contract

1. Develop your Social Contract/Covenant

· Group Rules

· few, and stated positively

· student involvement/ownership

· evolving with changing needs

· Positive expectations

· in this program/class we . . .

· Expect what you can accept

· Teach and test your management

2. Foster Community Relations

· Promote respect – and be intolerant of disrespect

· Promote teamwork and mutual interdependence

· Show caring and pride in the groups accomplishments

3. Respond appropriately to contract violations

LEVEL I: Student(s) violates an expectation

· Be a communicator of the news (not the judge/police)

· NATURAL and RELATED consequence (not punishment)

· Consequences need to be CERTAIN and CONSISTENT

· Follow-up with a recognition of positive behavior

LEVEL II: Student disregards/disrespects the group’s collectively developed covenant

· Avoid power struggles and hooks

· Broken Record - simply repeat the consequence

· Help them solve “their” problem

· Tough Love - don’t give in, it’s no favor to them