8. Classroom Rules Expectations Code of Conduct What are the rules/expectations you anticipate posting in your classroom? How do these rules/expectations reflect your philosophy of classroom management? Who will write these rules/expectations?
9. Daily Procedures / Routines What are the procedures/routines you will follow in your classroom? How will you handle bathroom time? Hand washing? Pencil sharpening? Moving from place to place in the school?
10. Intervention Strategies/ Levels of Consequences What will you do when students break a rule/expectation? Describe strategies for several levels of misbehavior. What should a student expect as a consequence when a rule/expectation is broken? What will happen when the rules are broken repeatedly?
11. Motivation Strategies How do you plan to motivate your students? What will you do to motivate your students to display positive behavior?
12. Preventative Behavior Management How will you try to support students’ on-task and appropriate behavior? What preventive behavior management strategies will you use? What will you do to help students follow the rules/expectations?
14. Creating Classroom Rules Are you going to create the rules? Or Will you create them with the class?
15. Creating Classroom Rules Should be about 5 total rules. State them in the positive instead of the negative. NOT: Don’t get out of your seat. INSTEAD: Stay Seated State the behaviors you wish to observe. NOT: No hitting INSTEAD: Respect each other
16. Cute Class Rules Show your armpits 6 legs on the floor YARFYOS You Are Responsible For Your Own Self Measure Your Voice
17. Example #1 1. Raise your hand. 2. Keep your hands and feet to yourself. 3. Walk. 4. Treat people the way that you would like to be treated. 5. Follow directions.
18. Example #2 Follow directions the first time given Keep body parts, objects and unkind words to yourself Be in the proper place at the proper time Use materials and equipment properly Always walk in the building
19. Example #3 1. Follow directions the first time given 2. Raise your hand and wait for permission to talk 3. Do not leave seat while the teacher is teaching 4. Hands, feet, and objects to yourself 5. Respect yourself and others
20. Example #4 1. Bee a good listener 2. Bee responsible 3. Bee in control 4. Bee cooperative 5. Bee your best
21. Example #5 Red rule: Pay attention. Listen carefully. White rule: Raise your hand. Pink rule: Stay on task. Yellow rule: Keep hands and objects to yourself. Green rule: Clean up your area. Orange rule: Be kind and show respect.
22. Begin Your Planning Brainstorm answers to the following: What behaviors do you value? What do you expect from your students? What type of behavior is unacceptable? Begin Drafting Rules that encompass what you value and expect from your students.
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24. “ The first day of school or a class – even the first few minutes – will make or break a teacher.”
63. There’s a Procedure for that. List all of the things that happen in your classroom that you will want to create a procedure for.
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65. Gimme Five! Five Fabulous Tricks, Tips, and Tools for Today’s Teacher Today’s Five Housand’s Heroes Kid Lit NASA Sky Maps Gaga for Google
66. John Dewey October 20, 1959 – June 1, 1952 Pragmatism Theory into Practice Hands-on Learning Experiential Education Project Based Learning Interest Based Learning
67. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.