Tabatha Payne

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Learning Environment:
List three behavioral expectations or rules for all students in your classroom. 1. The GOLDEN RULE: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Students should keep their hands and feet to themselves. Do not hit, kick or physically hurt others in the class. Students should show respect to one another and their peers belongings. Students should not be behind the teachers desk, she needs her own personal space too. 2. Raise your hand if you want a turn to speak during lessons. Do not get up while I am teaching unless it is an emergency such as going to the bathroom, vomiting, bleeding or passing out/fainting. 3. Students need to work and play safely. Students are asked to follow all school and classroom rules to help keep a safe and warming environment. 4. The use of profanity and foul language will not be tolerated in the classroom. Students will not use the word Stupid either. List the hierarchy consequences that you will follow when infractions of the rules occur in the classroom. 1. First Offence: Warning; they will be asked to stop what they were doing. 2. Second Offence: silent lunch; students will be told they cannot socialize with others during lunch. 3. Third Offence: Students will be asked to walk during recess for a given amount of time depending on the infraction, and a note will be sent home. 4. Severe Offence: Students will be asked to go straight to the principals office for further discipline. List the types of Intrinsic and Extrinsic reinforcement that you will utilize in the classroom. Positive Reinforcements: Addition of a stimulus Some positive reinforcements or additions to students positive performances and behaviors may include: As a group/individual: If students are caught doing a kind act to peers, the school ground, or even being a productive student, students will receive a stamp. After three stamps are collected, students can receive a treat out of the classroom surprise box, filled with candy and small toys. After five stamps are received students will be able to gain extra time at recess. If students receive ten stamps an ice cream party, or popcorn party will be rewarded.

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Negative Reinforcements: Removal of a stimulus Some negative reinforcements or removal of a students negative behavior to enhance positive behavior may include: Students will lose the privilege of talking during lunch. Removal of parties that may be planned for winter or spring, for example Halloween, Christmas, or Valentines Day. To recognize students that are following the rules and routines to encourage appropriate behaviors I will praise the child for the appropriate behavior and encourage them to keep up the good work. However, a child who is not following the rules and who is misbehaving will be kindly and quietly asked to stop, one on one, as to eliminate teasing from peers. Describe non-instructional routines and procedures, how you will handle the following non instructional routines and procedures to ensure that your classroom runs safely (provided that you are providing appropriate supervision) and smoothly. How will you begin class (including taking attendance and if applicable, lunch plans?) Before students arrive to school, have breakfast placed at each students table, by their name. As students arrive and enter the classroom, they will hang their book bags up on their cubby hooks and be seated at their tables. While students enter the room, and are eating their breakfast, I will take attendance by checking to see who is and who is not there. To get ready for lunch, I will call students up from the carpet according to their lunch choices. This will take place approximately five to seven minutes before lunch time is scheduled. First I will call students who brought their own lunches to line up first, at the door, exiting the classroom. Second I will call individual students to line up based on their lunch choices between lunch choice one or two. All choice one will be lined up together, as will choice two. We will not exit the classroom until students are quiet and showing me they are ready to walk down the hall, remaining quiet and in line, as to not disturb other classes. At the end of the day, students will leave the classroom based on their transportation. First, charter bus riders will clean up their work area, get their belongings from their cubbies, and line up and wait for the teacher who has that bus duty to come to the classroom and lead the students to the bus stop (generally this is only a hand full of students). The next task is to get other bus riders lined up. This will be accomplished by addressing the students to be quiet, after our final carpet time. I will call groups of students up to get their book bags and cubby items, based on their bus number. After all bus riders are lined up they will be lead to a holding hall, and asked to sit quietly until their bus number is called.

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At that time students exit the school and get on the bus to go home. Finally, car riders will be lined up at the door according to how they are sitting on the carpet; quiet and ready to go. They will be told to get their belongings from their cubbies and line up at the door, ready to walk to the front of the school, until their names are called. (This is based on what parents pull into the school first.) How will you distribute and collect material and students work? I will distribute and collect materials and students work via folders. First graders will have a green folder with their name written on them, and red folders will be for the second graders with their names written on them. Inside the folder will be letters and information sheets home to parents. Also, inside the folders will be a homework sheet, clearly stating what the homework is for each night, along with a behavior sheet. The behavior sheet is for parents and teacher to sign every day/night and leave notes for one another. Students will be asked, when they come in the classroom in the mornings, to put folders in a basket on the teachers desk. This will allow the teacher to collect homework assignments and letters from parents. Every afternoon, the teacher will put folders into each students cubbies, for them to take home. How will you assign and utilize student helper(s) or assistant(s)? Students will be assigned a helping job by using a student responsibility chart. The chart will show a specific job, such as door holder/monitor and chair stacker (at the end of the day), and a clean-up crew: for lunch and breakfast. Each task will list one to three students names for each week. Weekly, each of the students will have a job they will do for the duration of five days. The following week the responsibility of that task will be put on another group of students. How will you manage routine tasks such as pencil sharpening, bathroom breaks, and transitions between classes and/or hallway transitionings? Pencil sharpening will be done by a student assistant in the morning, after their breakfast is finished. Bathroom breaks will be taken after lunch, when students return to the room. Those that need a break will take turns using the classroom bathroom, before recess. If students have to utilize the bathroom during lessons, they will be allowed to use the restroom, as the need arises, as long as they are causing minimal disruptions. Transitions between classes and hallway transitionings will take place through the understanding that students will line up quietly and walk through the hall with hands to themselves, without touching the walls, as to eliminate the possibility of other class work falling off of the wall. If students talk, or put their hands on the hall walls, they will be given a verbal. How will you ensure your students are safe during emergency situations? (E.g. fire and tornado drills.) Students will be taught and discussed with, about the proper procedures to follow during such drills. Students will be reminded of drills, before they occur, if they

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are planned. For drills that are not planned, I will remind students to remain calm, and follow appropriate rules during the time allotted for drills. I will also carry a class roster to ensure all students that attended class that day are well within my eye and ear sight.