Our classroom is a strong team, reaching for the same basic goals to achieve.

We listen to each other and respect each other. We will keep our classroom clean and organized. We will believe in our classmates and ourselves and try our very best. We know school is important and we get to learn things that we will use now and later in life.

Ms. Vetesnik's Class

The Busy Bees

Rule 1: Be Respectful Rule 2: Bee Responsible Rule 3: Bee Helpful Rule 4: Bee a Teammate

Classroom Procedures
Procedure 1: Entering the classroom
Hand in homework from the night before into the basket. Go to Smart board and select what you are having for lunch. Sit at your desk and make corrections on the homework that is on your desk. If you have no homework to correct, go to the front table and take the word work paper.

Procedure 2: Morning meeting

People can share when they have the ball in their hands. The line leader for the day is picked out of a jar. The teacher will tell them what is going on for the day and any extra information.

Procedure 3: Going to specials

The line leader for the day leads them to and back from specials. Everyone should be quiet when walking in the hall.

Procedure 4: Questions
Students are always expected to raise their hand. Do not interrupt your classmates or your teacher when they are talking. If your teacher is talking one on one with someone, the student that needs something should place his or her hand on the teachers arm quietly. The teacher will acknowledge the child when there is a break in the conversation he/she is currently attending to.

Procedure 5: Bathroom breaks

The students go before the bell rings in the morning, recess break, lunch break, and snack break. Unless it is urgent the students will not leave in the middle of class to use the restroom.

Procedure 6: Homework
Students will be expected to complete homework daily. The homework each day will be short but important. The homework will include: math practice, spelling/ phonics, and reading for 20 minutes with an adult. Every Monday the students will bring back a reading log that has 100 minutes logged and signed by an adult. If a student has any assignment not turned in on time it will be completed during recess time.

Procedure 7: Drills (e.g. fire/tornado)

Everyone quietly and quickly stands up, pushes in their chairs and gets in a single file line. Line leaders do not matter in this instance.

Procedure 8: Special Events

Field Trips: Students have to have permission slips in on time in order to go. The line leader does not matter in this instance. The same classroom rules apply during the field trips. School assemblies: The same classroom rules apply, the line leader for the day gets to lead the class.

Procedure 9: Substitute Teacher

The teacher will be given an evaluation sheet of the class that will let me know when I get back if the students followed the classroom rules, and respected their teacher. The same classroom rules will apply. Students are able to help make sure things go smoothly.

Procedure 10: Dismissal

Teacher will release students by their assigned table numbers in order to get their homework from their cubbies. Students wait quietly at their seat if they are waiting to be picked up by a parent. Students wait quietly in line if they are riding the bus.

Rewards
Free and frequent
Praise Stickers Thumbs up

Intermittent
Positive report to parents. Get to each lunch in the classroom. Teacher will play with her students outside at recess.

Strong and long-term

Good behavior party with parents or just classmates. Recognition from the principal. Student of the week.

Level 1: Fair job. 2 prompts given. A brief reminder of the rules to the whole class. Level 2: Poor job. 3 prompts given. A discreet conference with the students directly. Level 3: 4 prompts given: student's desk is moved or switched. If problem keeps occurring with same child, I will talk with colleagues, the parents, and administration to get advice on different consequences I could try. Level 4: Extreme rule breaking (e.g. violence, or extreme disrespect): Student is sent to the principal, and parents are contacted.

Negative Consequences

Crisis Plan
(http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/beh2/cresource/how-do-you-develop-aneffective-behavior-management-plan/page-8-crisis-plan/#content)

1: A designated student goes to the office with a card that states a behavioral crisis is underway with the teachers name, and room number on it. Then school personal can act quickly. 2: The other students will go quietly into a teachers room that has agreed to take the students. The students are to just sit in the back and listen to the lesson. 3: Help the student regain self-control. 4: Once the crisis has been addressed bring the rest of the students into the classroom. 5: Notify the student's parents of the incident.

Action Plan: Develop

What? How? Create procedures for: Entering Develop procedures the classroom. Morning and a general idea for meeting. Going to specials. rules When? Procedures prior to the start of school. First day of school have students help with expectations.

Questions. Bathroom breaks. Homework. Drills. Special events. Substitute teachers. Classroom dismissal. With the class talk about what expectations we should have for our class to make sure it runs smoothly everyday.

Post rules

Make a poster with the

Create a handout of the rules and have the students sign it, and their parents. Talk about procedures Don't lecture the procedures talk First week of school.
about them and explain expectations when each event occurs.

expectations posted up in the classroom. Have each student create his or her own poster with the rules. Prior to the start of Include procedures in the handout so the parents know school, and during the what is expected of their first week of school. children.

First week of school.

Action Plan: Teach

What? Teach rules, procedures, and consequences to students How? Save time during each day to review
the rules, procedures, and consequences. Have the students act out different scenarios. The students can decide if they are following the procedure and expectation, if not how can they change it.

When? First week of school.

Action Plan: Share

What? How? Meet with administration to Share with colleagues discuss the plan. and assistants that are involved with your class. Provide a copy of the When? Prior to the start of school. Throughout the school year if needed.

Distribute to parents and request signature of agreement.

behavioral plan to colleagues and assistants that are involved with your class. Have a copy of the plan available to substitutes. Send information home with each student, the first day of school. Review the plan at parent teacher meeting. Ask parents to sign the plan.

First day of school, open house, and any new student joining throughout the year.

Action Plan: Review

What? How? When? Schedule short reflection Reflection sessions will be at the Prior to the start of end of every day. A section school. sessions after every day.
will be set-aside in a planner.

At the end of every week, identify and review things that were problematic.

Decide which component needs

to be addressed and reviewed, then have the students participate in fixing the problem.

During the school year, as needed.