Rules:
1) Respect yourself, your peers, your teacher, and your surroundings.
2) Raise your hand silently to speak.
3) Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
4) No cell phones or personal electronic devices are allowed in the classroom.
5) No chewing gum, eating, or drinking in the classroom.
Consequences:
Students will follow a 5-step discipline plan.
1) Warned by teacher (verbally)
2) Teacher will have a conference with student.
3) Teacher will call or send a letter home to parents. (1st strike)
4) Teacher will call or send a letter home to parents, and student will have Silent Lunch. (2nd strike)
5) A discipline referral will be sent to administrator. (3rd strike)
Part Two
Reward System #1: Point System The point system is designed to help improve classroom management and improve academic achievement. The point system allows teachers to establish classroom management. Teachers should assign the appropriate point rewards or penalties to fit how the teacher classroom should function to promote an ideal student-learning environment (Xenos, 2012). Academic achievement is improved using the point system. Teachers can designate points for completing homework, participating in class, and the grade achieved on a test. Students can receive points for completing these activities in the classroom. A drawback of using the point system is that the teacher must properly implement the system starting the beginning of the school year. It is important that students clearly
I plan to establish discipline by warning those students who misbehave at first giving them two chances to act appropriately. If a student still misbehaves, I will cut their privilege to go outside down by five or ten minutes according to the severity of their inappropriate behavior. If a child still misbehaves, I will take the issue to
Alfie Kohn discussed multiple fabulous points in his article, “Degrading to De-Grading”. The author suggests more effective ways to assess students’ progress other than numerical or letter grades. Kohn goes into detail about why our current grading system is flawed. Grades can cause students to lose interest in learning which causes them to stop taking challenges. If students are not engaged and interested than they are not retaining the information they are being taught. The grading system can also cause students to develop unhealthy competition with one another for instance, “I got a better grade than you!”. Indeed, grades are a wonderful concept, but they tend to be more hurtful than helpful. In some cases, grades can have positive effects on students. For example, setting goals for various assignments, or receiving help where they are struggling. Though, there are alternatives that could make positive changes in the system.
I have gained the knowledge of consequences and incentives that are effective and also ineffective to use. By gaining this knowledge I know that during my years to come of teaching I will be able to use effective consequences and incentives for my class. I have obtained the skill of keeping an organized room, through learning how to setup the room in such a way that will benefit student learning and my teaching. The text book used and classroom lectures that I brought into this artifact opened my eyes to many details that I will bring to my elementary class. What I found to be the most useful of completing this artifact was the first part in figuring out my philosophy of classroom management, I felt that this was useful because I had to think of what a good teacher was and why I will make a good teacher and how classroom management will play a role in me becoming a good
Margaret Heffernan once said, “For good ideas and true innovation, you need a mix of human interaction, conflict, argument, and debate.” In the article it is debated if there is any benefit in monetary rewards for students. Teachers, and parents alike are always trying to find the best way to reward and inspire there students to do well in school. Matthew G Springer is a professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University. He is also the director of the National Center on Performance Incentives. He wrote this article to display his research and studies.
Specific Praise. Specific praise includes verbal or written statements to a student that recognize a desired or correct behavior. Praise can function as a tool for instruction and for increasing social and academic behaviors. To be effective, the student must view the attention provided through praise as pleasurable or motivational (Curran, 2017). Specific praise promoted more on‐task behavior than positive praise and significantly increased academic self‐concept (Bizo, 2004). Offering specific praise will help Sam because it sends a message that the teacher is aware of the effort he is putting into staying on task. As time goes on, Sam will desire the teacher’s positive statements. He understands that the statements are the result of him remaining on task and reaching his six-week goal. Sam will also develop an understanding of how to meet the teacher’s expectation. In the end, Sam will mature and advance in his academics. As he matures, the need for constant specific praise will become unnecessary. The added benefit of specific praise is to the teacher. The high levels of stress and emotional exhaustion while attempting to teach in the classroom with Sam will diminish as he progresses.
For students, almost everyday begins by attending school. There are some students who excel and some who do not. The problem that is now faced is that the students who do not excel in school, are being rewarded for something they have not earned. These students are being passed to the next grade, but have not learned the necessary material. If students are failing, they should be held back because they are not truly passing, it is unfair to other students, and consequences will be learned.
Education is without a doubt one of the most significant factors in our society. We spend twelve years of our lives in the schooling system, and our system has been the most accurate technique for assessing students for decades now. Lately, there has been controversy over the traditional grading system that we currently use in our classrooms across the United States. There is a multitude of individuals who believe we should alter our grading system, and begin using a recently developed system which involves working on a long-term assignment throughout the semester to show what students have learned during the length of the course. There are many benefits to our traditional system that people often seem to overlook. We should be
The Classroom Management Plan (CMP) reflects Quality Indicator 5 (QI 5) because it has good examples of how to motivate, engage, have positive-social interactions with, and self-motivate the students in my classroom. I will motivate the students in my classroom with extrinsic rewards that the students will have to earn. In my classroom, I will have Dojo points and a treasure box full of rewards. I will also have extra recess and GO NOODLE dance parties as entire class rewards. Theorist, Fred Jones says that extrinsic rewards for students in the classroom helps with having positive behavior and minimizing behavior problems. I will also create a learning environment that engages the students by finding out the interest of each student. I will
Another classroom management technique, Ms. T uses a teacher verse class scoreboard; this was also used as a behavior plan. Throughout the day, the teacher randomly assesses the class’ behavior. If the class was on target and working efficiently, then the students get a point. This results in the class getting a mighty roar and, class responds with a yay! If the class was loud and misbehaving, then Ms. T gets a point. This results in the class getting a mighty grown and, class responds with an aw! When one side gets three points then, the class receives either a reward or punishment at recess.
Ms. Kimberly Rich is motivational. She does not fall short of inspiration, just like the other teachers from whom we have learned in the previous chapters. She has inspired me to implement her classroom management technique and she encourages other teachers in her school to learn strategies for effective social skills. I hope I can inspire students and other teachers the way she does. One of the main points she made was her classrooms management system. I am planning to use this method in my teaching career. I think it is a brilliant idea to create it as a level system. Both positive and negative sides come with “responsibilities.” Ms. Rich is
Teachers are not only expected to teach their students, but also provide an environment where everyone feels safe and can learn. Classroom management is a very important part of teaching. Students cannot learn in an unsafe, disruptive environment. This paper will discuss the strategy of SHAPING, how it is used to modify a student’s behavior, and give an example of how to modify a student’s behavior. This paper will also discuss my personal beliefs about classroom management, share rules and expectations for the classroom, rewards for individuals and the class, designing the classroom where the teacher is visible and there are no distractions, and discuss some classroom procedures and how they contribute to classroom management
Teachers have always used grades to measure the amount a student has learned. This practice is becoming ineffective. Many students have a wide range of grades, which show that grades may not show what a student really knows. Therefore, the standard grading system should be replaced. Some reasons why grades should be replaced are bad grades can hinder a child’s performance, grades define who a student is in the classroom, and grades are not an effective way to see if students have learned the material. The current grading system should be upgraded and every school should incorporate the plus/minus system in their method of grading.
Classroom reward systems provide teachers and students with guidelines to follow when dealing with behaviour. Every school has some form of behaviour management in place to deal with both good and bad behaviours and children with special needs who often need structure, planning and daily goals. Integrating technology into classroom reward systems, rewarding good behaviour, hard work or improvement, can have a positive impact on students, as Merrett, A., and Merrett, L. (2013) described, due to the materials being more stimulating and more interactive than other methods commonly used. Also digital rewards systems are easier for educators to edit and tailor to students or classrooms, individual needs, abilities and/or year group.
Classroom management is a key element to establish a successful learning environment in any classroom. An effective classroom management plan creates a positive learning environment. Classroom management is affected by the characteristics of the students and their behavior. Students’ behavior is influenced by their age, academic abilities, goals, interests, and home backgrounds (Evertson, Emmer, and Worsham, 2006). Teachers need a diverse array of classroom management skills to facilitate learning. A classroom with a proper management plan will spend less time in disciplining and more time in learning. Students in effectively managed classrooms know and follow clearly defined rules and routines. A classroom management plan should provide
Negative points can also be obtained if the student is not working adequately in class assignments or team work.