Classroom+Procedures

8/23/11 First day of placement

The student's came in, hung up their matching school bags and took out their morning folders to do morning work. First thing in the morning they practice their handwriting, and this morning the emphasis was on lowercase a, 9, and 10. Afterwards the students went to the carpet for calendar time and received the rules for calendar time.

9/26/11 Tips for Good Classroom Management
 * Discipline buddy
 * Into: model, practice, reinforce
 * Individual tasks
 * Describe behavior/resources
 * ORGANIZATION
 * Believe
 * Bad/good situations
 * Mass punishment
 * meaningful lessons
 * flexibility
 * proactive
 * know students
 * Written instruction/ page #
 * Posted rules
 * Consistency
 * Positive Environment/praise/language
 * Least invasive
 * Puzzle pieces
 * Clear expectations
 * Working together
 * Sign Language
 * Visible Management
 * Listening to students
 * Parent contact
 * Class schedule

My teacher has established a pattern throughout the day for her students to do. When the first group comes in every morning, they automatically take out their DLR, and work on that. They also know that the teacher does not like having the pencil sharpener going during instruction, so she has a can of pre-sharpened pencils ready for them to use. When they finish each task they can either read a book, take an AR test over a book, or get on the computer to play literacy games, but only if they don't have any unfinished work or homework.

The chairs are not already placed at desks when the students come in, so they must do that in a timely manner each day. For bathroom procedures, the teacher has a bathroom pass so that the students don't even have to ask permission to go to the bathroom, they instead take the pass off of it's hook and lay it on their desk, so if the teacher is looking for them, she can just look to their desk, see the pass and know where they are. My teacher runs her classroom based off of mainly trust, she gives them freedom, as long as they don't take advantage of it, or give her a reason to take privleges away.