CHAMPS Behavior Management

Pat Benatar could have written another song called "Your Classroom is a Battlefield". I'm no singer/songwriter but that would have hit big with the teacher demographic struggling to manage behaviors.

During my first year teaching I was shipped off to a CHAMPS professional development along with the rest of my school. We were given the knowledge, book, and posters to help us take a run at behavior management using a positive, proactive, instructional approach. It worked like a charm! Students thrive when they have clear expectations set for them and they understand what to do and expect. Which makes sense because, don't we all?!?!

As you can see I don't use the "S" in my display. It is available in the file for the large acronyms.

CHAMPS is a positive behavior management system created by Dr. Randy Sprick of Safe and Civil Schools. It was designed to improve classroom behaviors, reduce misbehaviors, and motivate students by establishing clear behavior expectations with logical and fair responses and consequences for misbehavior. Teachers spend less time on discipline and more time with actively engaged students who feel empowered and happy in class. Sounds like a dream, right? It is!

For eight years I used the uniform set of posters that my school provided. Two years ago I transferred to a new county and was ready for an upgrade. I designed two sets of posters. Acronyms with behavior expectations that make up a large display visible for all students no matter where they are in the classroom. In the photo above, you can see my whiteboard next to the CHAMPS display, this should give you an idea of the scale of the large display. All large posters for each acronym are pictured below.

I also designed a set of posters that are applicable to the I DO, WE DO, THEY DO, YOU DO instructional model. Some people call it the Gradual Release of Responsibility, others call it the Collaborative Framework, and who knows what teachers call it in their own classroom when the doors are closed! These posters have all behavior expectations on one 8x11 sized sheet of copy paper.

For those of you who may be new to CHAMPS, each acronym communicates to students what they are expected to do to behave successfully during specific activities or times of the school day. The CHAMPS acronym stands for:

                    Conversation
                    Help
                    Activity
                    Movement
                    Participation
                    Success

There are a lot of sets of comprehensive CHAMPS posters. This is a simplified, easy to implement version. If you have ideas for additional prompts please comment below and I will be happy to add them. My favorite thing about these posters is that they are no prep. Just print, laminate, and manage behavior like a BOSS! Check them out here!