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CHAMPs is a proactive and positive approach to behavior and classroom management that allows teachers and administrators to maximize learning time while promoting a healthy school climate in which all students and teachers can feel safe, positive, and ready to learn. A positive approach involves constructive, encouraging, and affirmative interactions between students and staff school-wide, and CHAMPs is designed to assist teachers in establishing consistent expectations with logical and fair responses to misbehavior, promoting respectful and civil interactions, and developing tools to motivate students to do their best. This results in increased student on-task behavior and teaching time, higher rates of student achievement, and improved school atmosphere.
By following the effective, research-based practices outlined in CHAMPs, teachers can clearly communicate expectations on every classroom activity and transition so that students know what actions are permitted at different times. While expectations may vary from classroom to classroom, the framework for those expectations is the same, making it easier for students to understand the expectations in different classrooms or learning situations within the classroom. Students are taught to meet expectations using the framework of the CHAMPs acronym:
| Conversation |
(How do students talk to each other during this activity?) |
| Help |
(How do students get the teacher’s attention and their questions answered?) |
| Activity |
(What is the task/objective? What is the end product?) |
| Movement |
(When and how do students move about during this activity?) |
| Participation |
(How do students show they are fully participating?) |
CHAMPS for Kindergarten
CHAMPS for 1st Grade
CHAMPS for 2nd Grade
CHAMPS for 3rd Grade
CHAMPS for 4th Grade
CHAMPS for 5th Grade
CHAMPS for Middle School
CHAMPS for Assemblies
CHAMPS for Library
CHAMPS for CTE/Computer Lab
CHAMPS for PE
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