Let’s Travel All Around the World:

Viajamos Por Todo El Mundo

Grades: 9th and 10th

Undesirable Behavior Targeted: Throughout class, students get off-task and distracted (by peers,
cellphones, bathroom breaks, snacks, etc). This interferes with their learning by not allowing them to fully
engage or participate in class activities, lessons, or discussions.
Expected Behavior: During class, students will remain on-task and actively participate in classroom
activities and lessons. (actively listen to teacher/speaker, contribute to content, keep phones out of sight,
no bathroom breaks unless necessary, staying on topic, etc).
Positive Reinforcements:
1. Immediate R+: When the who class is on-task, they will receive one ticket. When the whole class
receives 5 tickets, then the teacher (or a student) will ring a bell and draw one Spanish-speaking
country from a jar and read the slip aloud (five interesting facts about that country).
2. Ongoing R+: After drawing and reading a country slip, the teacher or a student will color in that
Spanish-speaking country on a map. Once the students have colored all 21 Spanish-speaking
countries (or received 105 tickets as a class) then the students will have a Cultural Day.
3. Overall R+: Cultural Day or Día de Hispanohablantes
4. Easy Administration of R+: All 21 country slips will be pre-created and placed in a special
countries¨ jar where the students or teacher can draw from once they have received 5 tickets as a
class. Also, the map will be pre-selected and placed on the wall close to the ¨countries¨ jar.
Interactive Learning Activity:
● TEKS→ (114.39): The use of age-level appropriate and culturally authentic resources is
imperative to support the teaching of the essential knowledge and skills for languages other than
English (LOTE). The use of culturally authentic resources in world language study enables
students to make connections with other content areas, to compare the language and culture
studied with their own, and to participate in local and global communities.
● Students will have a Cultural Day or Día de Hispanohablantes that consists of the exploration of
various cultural aspects found in the Spanish-speaking countries that we learned about through
the country slips in our ongoing R+. The students sign up for one country and an important dish
from that country in order to teach their classmates about that dish (the origins, ingredients,
importance to that country/region, etc) adding in Spanish whenever they can. After our classroom
food discussion, the students will watch a compilation of brief clips of Spanish-speaking movies or
TV Shows (in Spanish with English subtitles) pre-selected by the teacher.
Teaching the Expected Behaviors: First, the students and I will brainstorm ¨desirable behaviors¨ and
¨undesirable behaviors¨ together. Then, the teacher and students will come up with an anchor chart that
consists of ¨an ideal classroom”and a ¨not so ideal classroom.” This will allow for the teachers and
students to brainstorm together on how the classroom should look and how the environment is adversely
affected with certain behavior. After creating these lists and discussing them as a class, the students will
practice these expected behaviors through a role-playing activity.
Teaching the Plan: In order to teach the plan, the students will fulfill the desired behavior expectations
and receive a fake country slip (from a non spanish-speaking country) that is not a part of their Behavior
Contingency Plan and color it into the map to model what the process would look like.
Some Options Might Be: Make a personal flipbook for the teacher to track behavior expectations for
each of the classes to see if they are advancing behaviorally or not, and what the problem or problems
affecting this behavior might be.
All Necessary Items: A bell, an empty map, markers to color in map, 21 country slips and a jar, pre-
selected compilation of movies, TV shows, and food for Cultural Day.