When the Class Feels Younger Than Their Age

• Mystery Behavior

  Pick one behavior you want to see more of, keep it hidden, and hand out tickets quietly whenever you spot it. Reveal it at the end and celebrate who showed it. About two minutes to set up.

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• Supporting and Responding to Students' Behavior Needs

  Practice tables with secondary examples for routines, expectations, prompting, supervision, and specific feedback.

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• Low-Intensity Strategies

  One-page step guides and checklists for precorrection, opportunities to respond, praise, and choice.

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• Fundamental Skill Sheets

  Short how-to sheets with high school video examples: active supervision, specific praise, choice, and proximity.

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• Classroom Behavior Management, Part 2 (Secondary)

  Work through it as a pair to build shared rules, procedures, and consequences.

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• High School Acknowledgement Systems

  Ideas for recognition that high school students actually value.

  Center on PBISStrategy guidePlan togetherWhole class

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• Creating a Classroom Teaching Matrix

  Map your expectations onto each classroom routine so you can teach them explicitly.

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• Building Routines to Manage Cognitive Load

  A Colorado high school shows predictable routines, color coding, and numbered steps that free students to focus on content. Transcript included.

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• Behavior-Specific Praise (High School Example and Non-example)

  A high school teacher gives praise that names the behavior, shown next to a vague version. Age-respectful and quick. Transcript included.

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These resources are shared for professional learning and planning. They are meant to inform your professional judgment, not replace it. Each student's IEP and your district, state and federal requirements always come first. Listing a resource here is not an endorsement by Layered Education. This is educational information only, not legal advice.