Sarah Newbury #15

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Whats Up, Cupcake?
Undesirable Behavior Targeted: Off-Task Behavior: Students are off-task during the period after lunch and recess. This is when
students wonder the classroom, have their head on table, pick on each other by touching or hitting, laughing, and talk loudly to
other students. These behaviors interfere with learning because students do not pay attention to the lesson, do not listen to the
teacher, do not participate; therefore, students do not obtain the knowledge from the class.
Desirable Behavior Targeted: On-Task Behavior: Students are expected to seated in their seats and sitting up straight. Would
like respect towards others personal bubble: keeping hands and feet to yourself. All students will remain in their seats unless told
otherwise. All students will participate in class by raising their hand; follow the conversation with follow-up comments, questions,
or answers while letting others participate in class as well. Actively listen to the teacher and peers by looking at speaker and
contribute to class with related information by discussing and share their understanding of the content.
Positive Reinforcements
1. Immediate R+. When a student are in their seat, keeping their hands to themselves, eyes forward, and participating in the
discussion the student will receive a cupcake cutout.
2. Ongoing R+. At the end of every class the students will be given a time to place their cupcake on the poster of a cupcake pan
on the wall. The goal is to fill the pan completely as quick as possible.
3. Overall R+. Once the pan is filled the teacher will prepare the material for the class to fill their own cupcake pan with a
variety of cutouts while practicing contractions. Once finished with their pan, students will be allowed to eat a cupcake!
4. Every day I will monitor students closely after lunch and recess in order to catch on-task behavior. Throughout the lecture or
activity I will place a cupcake on the top left of their desk every time they are performing on-task. At the end of the lesson,
students will go to the poster and glue the cupcake to the pan. When the pan is full of cupcakes, the teacher will prepare the
students to perform the reward activity for the next day of class.
Interactive Learning Activity: The day following the completion of the cupcake pan, the class will be given a bag of cupcake cut
outs that contain the contraction word on the cake and the separated word on the icing. (Cant on the cake, can not on the
icing) The students will work independently on gluing the icing to the cake by correctly identifying the words that are related.
This will allow them to have visual reference to reinforce contractions learn in a previous lesson. Once the cupcakes are
completed correctly, the student will glue them into their own pan, which will be placed around the room by the teacher. After the
activity, the students will be able to eat a cupcake provided by the teacher.
110.13. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 2 - 2.(F) identify and read contractions (e.g., haven't, it's)

Teach the Desired Behaviors: The desirable behaviors will be practiced everyday for a week immediately after the class gets
back from lunch and recess to form a habit. The class and I will model them, along with using role-play to show the undesirable
and the desirable behaviors. I will perform a skit with my co-workers showing the undesirable behavior to the class and have them
come up with a skit to preform the desirable behavior.
Teach the Plan: After modeling/preforming the desired behavior, I will explain the immediate reinforcements. This will include
how the students can obtain them and how I will distribute them. Then I will explain the ongoing reinforcement and specify when
they are going to have the opportunity to place their cupcakes on the liners. After that is all understood, I will explain the overall
reinforcement, show where the poster will be placed, and the procedures to follow with it. After that I will reteach and practice the
desirable behaviors again.
Provide options
I could change the behavior to being ready for class at the beginning of every transition. If off-task behavior becomes more of a
problem throughout the day, I could incorporate this plan more often in the class rather than just after lunch and recess.
Materials
Paper pan board (for class and individual), paper cupcakes (immediate R+), baggies of separated paper cupcakes with contractions
(overall R+), pencils, cupcakes