Lesson plan to Teach Expectations and Character Education
BUS

Expectation/Location:
Be respectful, Be responsible, and Be ready
Bus

2. Definitions and Rules:
1.) Follow directions of bus driver (2.) Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself
(3.) Follow bus rules (4.) Walk to your bus (5.) Keep track of your things (6.) Remain seated on the bus until it is time to get off (7.) Have belongings ready to enter and exit the bus

Activities To Enhance Skill Development:
Introduce the expectation, the rules, examples , and non-examples. Teacher/bus driver will explain and demonstrate rules and expectations. Students demonstrate rules and expectations through role play. Teacher/bus driver will demonstrate non-examples and ask students to explain what was wrong.

Activities To check for Understanding:
Ask students to role-play examples
Tell me, show me bus rules/expectations
Tell a friend, show a friend rules/expectations

Activities to Extend Skill Development:
Develop a T-chart for the way entering, riding, and leaving the bus looks and sounds when the rules/expectations are being followed. Use words and pictures of students demonstrating desired behaviors.
Role-play and/or use demonstrations
Make videos of students who are following the expectations of entering, riding, and leaving the bus.

Acknowledgements to Maintain Positive Behaviors:
Bus bucks Positive rewards
Words of praise
Words of thanks
Notes to students
Re-teach rules

Examples
Walk to and from bus
Talk quietly
Listen to the teacher and/or bus driver and follow directions
Have materials/books that are needed
Enter or exit the bus quickly, orderly, and quietly
Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself
Use small voices on the bus
Stay in seat and face forward

Non-Examples
Run to/from bus
Talk loudly when going to or leaving the bus
Ignore teachers’/bus drivers’ directions
Talk when the teacher/bus driver is giving directions
Hit and/or push others
Throw things on the bus
Talk loudly/scream when on the bus
Out of seat on the bus