Patrick Ralph TCHNG 3730 Professor Tim Hazen 5/6/13

Classroom Management Plan Purpose Our class' primary responsibility is to investigate, explore, and discover learning opportunities in an environment which proves to be safe, comfortable, and non-threatening to ourselves and fellow peers. With hard work and respect towards one another, a strong class community will bond together. This bond cannot be broken and our strengths will carry over to the surrounding community we live in, as we strive for a better world. Expectations What are they? The teacher will explain to my students that they are now a community of investigators and discoverers, and in charge of their own education. Learning is as much their responsibility as it is mine as an instructor to teach it. As such, the students and teacher will collaboratively discuss their expectations together. It is important they think about actions/behaviors that make a classroom a conducive to learning. The teacher will prompt the students in their discussion of expectations to add necessary objectives when prompted. How will they be communicated? The expectations will be placed at the front of the class. Each student will have the opportunity to sign their name underneath the posted expectations on the board. It will be called our Investigators Creed. This creed is a bond the students cannot break. The longer the bond is kept, the more freedoms (listed under the positive consequences section) students will receive. If consistent attempts are made to break the Investigators Creed, restraints (negative consequences) will be placed on the class community. The creed will be analogized through a simple addition-type problem. The expectations will be posted through this formatted analogy as such:

Student Expectations

Teacher Expectations

Investigator's Creed

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Students: Their expectations should be met together as a community of investigators; each member being as important as the next.

As a student, I will:

for property by not stealing or vandalizing.

ool activities. Teacher: The teacher will openly share expectations of himself. The students should hold the teacher accountable in the same fashion he holds them.

As a teacher, I will: fficient use of learning time.

classroom to make learning enjoyable.

Procedures Morning Routine: Quietly walk into the classroom. Remove coat or jacket. Hang it on a hook. Remove homework folder and reading book from your backpack, and then hang your backpack on a hook. Turn in finished homework in the homework bin. Put any notes from your parents to the teacher in the Notes from Home bin. Write down todays homework in your homework folder. Have two sharpened pencils. Begin morning work on your own. This will always be on the board.

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If Tardy: Stop at the front office before you come to the classroom. Enter the classroom quietly, without disturbing the class, and begin the morning routine Classroom Library:

Only take a book home if you have filled out a check out card and placed it behind your name on the pocket chart. Check out one book at a time. Return the book to check out a new book. Take care of the book and return it in the same condition you checked it out. Two students at the bookshelf at a time Five students may read in the Reading Area at a time No conversations during quiet reading time Only one person in a round chair at a time Pick out a book that you would like to read quickly. If you choose to take it home please check it out by filling out a card. Put books back in the proper place when you are finished.

Finished Work Early:

Turn finished work in the bin Work on unfinished assignments Study spelling words Write in journal Read a book

Consequences Positive: Building Community Verbal Praise (specific feedback) Positive phone call home Class reward of recess or preferred activity time when a group goal is reached A cooperative learning environment for all students Celebrating Accomplishments Good Slips positive notes given to students when the teacher notices expected behavior. The student will then place the slip in the prize box for the end of the week drawing. Discovery Awards (small books, and award slips allowing for freedom of choice during unstructured periods of the day) Prize Box - will be drawn from at the end of the week with students good slips

Patrick Ralph TCHNG 3730 Professor Tim Hazen 5/6/13

Name and example of work on the Bright Moments board Negative: Consequences

Conclusion This plan will assist in creating a classroom full of willing investigators, conscious of one anothers needs, concerns, and safety. The students will learn in this optimal environment because of their enhanced motivation to pursue advances in their own personal education. Selfdiscovery is the primary focus of this behavior plan as opposed to specific discipline. The students take part in, and essentially, discover the goals of their own behavior making for true understanding. This plan should serve as a framework to guide students with their behavior throughout the school year.