Miss Greene's classroom management plan focuses on building a team environment where students work together to achieve academic and social goals. Her plan has 3 main components: rules to keep students safe, happy and respected; clear expectations and consequences; and open communication between teacher, students, and parents. She emphasizes using positive reinforcement, setting behavioral expectations, and involving parents to build relationships and address any issues.
Miss Greene's classroom management plan focuses on building a team environment where students work together to achieve academic and social goals. Her plan has 3 main components: rules to keep students safe, happy and respected; clear expectations and consequences; and open communication between teacher, students, and parents. She emphasizes using positive reinforcement, setting behavioral expectations, and involving parents to build relationships and address any issues.
Miss Greene's classroom management plan focuses on building a team environment where students work together to achieve academic and social goals. Her plan has 3 main components: rules to keep students safe, happy and respected; clear expectations and consequences; and open communication between teacher, students, and parents. She emphasizes using positive reinforcement, setting behavioral expectations, and involving parents to build relationships and address any issues.
Miss Greene's classroom management plan focuses on building a team environment where students work together to achieve academic and social goals. Her plan has 3 main components: rules to keep students safe, happy and respected; clear expectations and consequences; and open communication between teacher, students, and parents. She emphasizes using positive reinforcement, setting behavioral expectations, and involving parents to build relationships and address any issues.
My classroom management plan is based on the idea that in my classroom, we are a
team, and we all need to work as a team. In my classroom, we work together to achieve our goals, both academically, as well as a classroom community. My plan is also based on these 3 ideas: Our classroom has... 1. Rules to keep us safe, happy and feeling that we are all respected 2. Clear expectations and consequences 3. Communication, communication, communication
RULES EXPECTATIONS IN SCHOOL WE ALWAYS: IN SCHOOL WE A LWAYS: ☺Keep hands, feet and objects to ★ Respect: ourselves Ourselves ☺Raise our hand and wait to Classmates speak Teachers and staff ☺Pay attention to the speaker Our school and ☺Listen carefully to directions and supplies lessons ★ Do your best at all times ☺Use respectful words and ★ Listen carefully and follow actions ☺Stay on task directions ☺Learn something new every day ★ Be prepared for class each ☺Have Fun! day ★ Be responsible for Ourselves Our actions Our own work ★ Keep everyone in the class and school safe CONSEQUENCES Positive Negative ☺ High five st- 1 Redirection (warning) ☺ Fist bump Reminder of what the task is supposed to be ☺ Elbow bump Communication (reteaching) of what the task should look like ☺ Token on Review of what the class expectations are token board 2nd- Second redirection (2nd warning), conference with the teacher to to work discuss: toward a ▫ Reminder of what the task is reward ▫ Reteach what it should look like ☺ Free time ▫ Review class expectations when all ▫ Discuss the consequences if the behavior continues assignments ▫ Problem solve solutions with the student are completed ☺ Fun Friday 3rd- Second conference with the teacher to: ☺ Tickets to ▫ Further discuss the behavior success ▫ Review solutions that were discussed, write them down to ☺ Homework remember Eggs ▫ Review what the consequence will now be: (could be one or more of the following) ▫ Call/ note/email home ▫ Notation on the student's calendar/planner ▫ token not being achieved ▫ loss of Fun Friday time PARENT- TEACHER COMMUNICATION As with my students, communication with parents is a vital part of my classroom management plan. I believe that not only is communication important for my students, but also for parents. Communication not only keeps parents informed of their child’s progress in the class, both academically and behaviorally, but is intended to build a strong parent-teacher relationship with each child's parents. This is achieved with regular notes, emails and phone calls, both positive and negative, which are vital to building open parent-teacher relationships. Parents also will know all rules, expectations and consequences that are set in the classroom. They will also be able to see what behaviors that their child may be exhibiting in the classroom. This will be achieved by communicating the following list of numbered behaviors, that can be notated by number for a quick reference on the child’s planner/ calendar.
BEHAVIOR LIST
1. Class Disruption 8. Distracted often
2. Out of seat without 9. Tardy (grade level appropriate) permission 10. lunchroom issue 3. Talking without permission 11. Assignments or homework incomplete or 4. Disrespectful to others or not missing being a nice friend 12. Did not bring planner/ calendar today 5. Horseplay 13. Improper use of bathroom 6. Not following directions or 14. Misbehaving in line Being unsafe 15. Fighting 7. Gum or candy
In order to communicate all of this information, quickly and efficiently students will be given a communication planner or calendar. Each day this planner/calendar will be updated with any information needed, and is to be a quick reference to the parents to show how their child did for the day. Then as a team, parents and I, can use this as a tool to see/ find any patterns in behavior that may be noticed, as well as communicate general information to each other. Any specific and sensitive information will need to be emailed using the appropriate district email. Parents can also know what regular behaviors are being seen when they are noted by their number. The use of a number system is used to keep student mistakes as confidential as possible. Any specifics can be described in an email or phone call home- if necessary. POSITIVE BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNITY I also like to use the Class Dojo platform in my classroom. This is used to help build, and keep track of, positive behaviors in class. I also use it to have a bit of fun to our days. I use this platform to not only show parents how well their child is doing at their school work, by receiving points for turning in classwork or homework or doing great on a test, but also showing how often they are being a great friend, a handy helper and having Star Student behavior (being a positive role model). For a bit of fun and competition, the students are placed in a group at random to compete (good sportsmanship counts) against one and other. They achieve points based on their positive behaviors during the year. The group that has the most points at the end of the year, is awarded a certificate and bragging rights. This helps build relationships between the students, between the teacher and students, as well as builds a community of helpers who are working to achieve based on their positive behaviors and interactions with each other. Celebrating individual students' hard work is also a goal of mine. During the school year whenever a student turns in a specific number (3 homework assignments for K-2nd grade and 5 for 3rd and up) of completed, on time homework assignments they are awarded a homework prize. They are permitted to choose a prize hidden within a plastic egg in the homework egg basket. Inside the egg could include items such as cute erasers, a mental mint (if allowed) choice of decorative pencil/ pen or tickets to success. Students are also awarded with “tickets to success” when they receive a grade that reflects their hard work, or when they are seen participating and completing their work in class. Students then write their names on the tickets in order to be placed into the weekly drawing for Friday Lunch Bunch each week. The winning students are then awarded with a special invitation to eat lunch with me in my classroom that Friday. The students are also able to invite a friend who shares their lunch time, and is given approval from their teacher- if they are not in our classroom. During Lunch Bunch, students are able to listen to music or watch a movie (if approved by administration) while they eat. When they are finished eating, students can also play games, color and draw, read books or talk with their friends. FINAL THOUGHTS As a teacher, it is my job to not only teach my students academically, but to also teach a sense of community, how to interact with each other, as well as work together. It does not help to reprimand and punish a child for negative behaviors and not teach a more appropriate or expected behavior. Students need to be taught how to interact with others, as well as how to communicate- especially when conflict arises. Students also need to be taught what is expected of them. Students do not necessarily understand what a focused student looks like. They do not always understand why talking with their friend during a lesson, or playing with a toy is disruptive. To reprimand and punish a distracted student without communicating why this behavior is unacceptable, is missing a clear teachable moment. Children need guidance in all areas academically, as well as socially. As a teacher it is my responsibility to not only teach academically, but to teach the whole child.
