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Goal

Goal: Supplementation of our “GATOR BUCK” Awards system to enhance the value and showcase tangible and visible “carrots” / prizes such as bikes, Starbucks Gift Cards, grocery store gift cards, etc.

These prizes are earned via our “Gator Bucks” rewards system (P.B.S. = Positive Behavior Support) in order to reaffirm and entice excellent behavior while in the school environment.

Here at East Naples Middle School we can never get enough positive reinforcement for our students and families. Our Gator pride shines brightly as you walk on to our campus and see the wonderful smiles and hear the excited murmur of the students who walk and work very hard to make us very proud as a community.

East Naples Middle School is different than most schools in Naples / Collier County in that we are a Title I school which is economically challenged, 73% qualify for free lunch and 5% qualify for a reduced amount. We are also zoned to take of Youth Haven students who are generally very needy foster and homeless children that do not have the normal family support system to help them excel in the school environment. This does not take away from our multitude of GATOR achievements in and out of the classroom. Our GATORS have always competed at the highest academic, arts, and athletic levels.

Please help our GATOR team in rewarding POSITIVE BEHAVIOR as it is truly the best form of motivation for young middle school students
 

What will be done with my students

Below is an excerpt of what October looks like for Gator Trait Values Training. This Gator Training is held school wide and give the teacher and opportunity to customize the lesson to the class and to the teacher's individuality.

PBS / Gator Trait Education – East Naples Middle School
Teachers do establish relationships and model character traits daily. With our demands on getting through our curriculum, time is not allotted for meaningful dialogue about the importance of developing good character. Middle Schoolers could truly benefit from examining the virtues of character and by being able to have a voice.

WHY: The purpose of this initiative is to introduce the character traits in a non-threatening manner, create a dialogue with students about character traits, and establish relationships with each class regarding the building of character. This is not designed to add to any teacher’s work load. The teacher will have to facilitate the discussions and activities.

WHAT/HOW: Lesson Plans will be provided to each teacher. Each teacher may decide what he/she would like to use.

WHEN: A rotating assembly schedule will be held once a month providing an opportunity to talk with a different class each time.

WHERE: In your own classroom.
Each month we would focus on a different character trait. List of Character Traits as identified in the Social Studies Department:
October – Respect Feb – Kindness and Charity
November – Responsibility March - Honesty
December – Perseverance April – Fairness and Justice
January – Self – Control May – Integrity

The format (all provided for the teacher) planned is as follows:
1. Introduce the character trait through a video/You Tube presentation.
2. Begin discussion using a list of questions that relate the video with the trait. (In the event there is no technology available – the questions can be used as conversation starters.)
3. Activity (list of possibilities will be given) such as design a poster that demonstrates the character trait.
4. If there is time remaining – read a book.

For those interested – there are a number of Kagan strategies that can be used as well as Games that can get the students actively ready to participate.

October – Respect

You Tube - October – First Month – RESPECT

1. You Tube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AImeG0Nk1p8

This video was created by middle school students. It does briefly mention suicide and school bombings. It is very relatable for the kids.

10 minutes

2. Questions:
You or a student can make a list on the board or chart paper.

a. Talk to your shoulder partner and share what one thing you thought was important from the video. (No tech – what is one thing that is important about respect)
Share answers
b. How do you show respect to your friends? Teachers? Family?
c. Think of someone that you think is respectful and explain why you think he/she is respectful.
d. Have you ever given someone a compliment? Ask for examples. Why is that showing someone respect?
e. What could you do to be more respectful – one thing?

Share answers for 10-15 minutes or longer


3. Activity –
- Work together to create a poster that shares your thoughts on what respect means and why it is important.
- Draw it out first in pencil and make sure that all the words are spelled correctly.
- After the teacher has given the OK – create a poster and color it with crayons or markers.
- Display in your classroom or in the hallway.

20 minutes



35 Activities Your Students Can Do To Learn Respect
by Michele Borba, Ed.D.

Author of Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing

There are many ways people show respect to others, and the more aware that students are of what those actions look and sound like, the more likely they are to incorporate those behaviors in their daily lives. Here are 35 activities students can do to learn the meaning and value of respect. There’s one (and a few more) for each day of the month.

1. Every day this week give a sincere compliment to someone. Create a weekly planner that will help you track your behavior. Each day you must write who you gave the compliment to and describe their reaction.

2. Look up the definition of respect. Write it down. Now describe ways you have acted respectfully or disrespectfully this week.

3. Make a list of people you think are respectful and why you added them to your list.

4. Think of someone who is respectful and talk about why they would be a good friend.

5. Discuss why acting respectful is important.

6. Work alone or with a partner to create a song, a rap, or a chant about respect. Your words should tell why respect is important and how it could make the world a better place. Write the rap on a piece of paper and be ready to respect it to the group if called upon.

7. What are three ways you can show your teacher respect?

8. What are three ways you can show your parents respect?

9. Make a list of things people say who are respectful. Here are a few: “please.” “Thank you.” “I appreciate that.” “May I hold the door?” “Pardon me.” “I’m sorry I offended you.”

10. Make a list of things people do who are respectful. Here are a few: hold the door open for someone who needs help, listen without interrupting, don’t talk back, whine, or sass, throw away trash.

11. Watch a half hour TV show. Who was respectful or disrespectful, and why?

12. Interview someone and ask what’s one way to show respect to another person. Write it.

13. List five ways we could show greater respect for our environment.

14. What would you do if an adult was disrespectful to you? Suppose the grown-up yelled at you for something you didn’t do. What do you say? What do you do? Describe your answer in 50 words.

15. Design a bumper sticker about respect. Include on the bumper sticker: the word Respect, a motor or slogan for why you should use it and at least three words that describe it.

16. Describe a respectful way to answer the phone.

17. Suppose you’re invited to your friend’s home for a family dinner. What are some ways you could show respect and courtesy when your first arrive? At their table? When you leave? Write at least 50 words.

18. Cut a long strip of butcher paper 3 x 36” (or use adding machine tape). Roll each of the ends around a pencil and tape the ends to the pencil. Use crayons, colored pencils or ink pens to draw a scene of what respect looks and sounds like in action. Roll up your movie and be ready to share your story.

19. Make a campaign poster about respect. Make sure you include the word “Respect” and two reasons why someone would want to vote for having respect at your school. You could use construction paper, felt pens, crayons, magazine cut-outs and templates.

20. Look up the word “respect” in a dictionary. Find at least 10 different words that mean almost the same thing as “respectful.” These words are called synonyms. Write each synonym on a paper strip. Link your paper strips together to make a chain and staple the ends of each link.

21. Use glue to write on bright-colored paper a few statements that respectful people would say to put a smile on someone else’s face. Now carefully sprinkle the letters with glitter. You’ve made Sparkle Statements!

22. Design a mobile using paper, string, and a clothes hanger. The mobile must show at least four different ways you can show respect to yourself, other people, and property.

23. Read about John Muir. How did he show respect to the environment?

24. List at least five synonyms for the word respect.

25. Draw a picture of your head and cut it out. Or make your silhouette by standing in front of an overhead projector. Have a friend trace the silhouette that appears on a piece of paper taped on the wall. Cut out your silhouette. What kinds of things would a respectful character do? Write or draw at least 8 characteristics of respectful people inside the silhouette. Circle ones that you do.

26. Make a banner about respect. You could make it from cardboard, burlap, material, wallpaper or construction paper. Decorate your banner with pictures and word cutouts that show respect. Include at least 10 ways to show respect to other people.

27. Cut out a newspaper or magazine article about a person who showed respect. What did they do to demonstrate respect?

28. Write a commercial about respect. Try to sell respect so others will want to start using it. For instance, say something positive that might happen in the world if more people showed respect to one another.

29. Write a word for each letter in the word respect that means almost the same thing.

30. List five antonyms for the word respect.

31. Make a collage for respect on a piece of poster board. Draw pictures or paste magazine pictures that show different ways you can show respect to tohers.

32. Find at least five pictures of people showing respect to others. Make a collage.

33. Write a paragraph describing how the world would be different if more people showed respect toward one another.

34. Create a recipe for respect. What ingredients do you need?
Design a campaign button that would help someone understand what respect means.

 

Benefits to my students

Positive Behavior and Gator Traits Training is a core part of helping our young scholars become solid young men and women and gives them the tools to use as they venture beyond our walls. Many of our students are the only English speakers in their home and have very real and adult responsibilities as they leave our area of influence. Others have times of the day where they may be in charge of their own lives without much adult supervision and guidance to make the right choices. This Positive Behavior Rewards System instills the "right choice" mentality and hopefully builds strong character that our Gators will call upon when the brief temptation of the "No One Is Looking" moment arises.  

Budget Narrative

All Gift cards will be distributed through a raffle system during lunches. Raffles take place weekly and monthly for grand prizes. Cookie sales take place everyday at lunch. 10 Gator Bucks gets the students one cookie that is made and sold by the East Naples Middle School Cafeteria. 

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