Why We Need Rules Of The Classroom

The first reason why I think we should have recess is students need a certain amount of sunlight in order to become full of energy and it also helps student become more healthy.If you don't have a lot of energy in class then you won’t be able to stay awake in class and that results in getting in trouble maybe even a demerit. If students don't get enough sunshine then they won't be able to stay healthy enough to go to school.

These rules are displayed throughout the school and are referred to continuously by staff and children equally. We also have class rules that have been developed by the children themselves and are a positive device for encouraging good behaviour. The children can then monitor their own behaviour as well as the behaviour of other children in the class.

She told me about her classroom rules which are mutual respect, attentive listening and appreciations no put downs. She spent the first three weeks of school going over these three rules and afterwards she had each student write their name on colored paper which is their contract, their signature on that paper means they will follow those rules throughout the year. She has another rule in her classroom called “Kelso’s Choices”. Kelso’s Choices are nine different choices they can make on how to solve their problems in class. When the students come to an issue they have to choose two of the choices on the poster before going to the teacher. Some of the choices on there include, walking away, talking it out, apologizing, telling them to stop, etc. I really liked the idea of Kelso’s Choices because it teaches them problem solving as well as social skills. Instead of being unfair or going to the teacher they have the opportunity to solve the issues and be fair towards each other.

We could limit some of the rules. We could have a meeting with the teachers to talk about this situation. During that meeting, maybe we could discuss the issues students are having with this code and find out a way to change it up some.

Having explored the three methods of setting ground rules during session 2 of PTTLS course, it is evident that for the ground rules to be effective, determining the appropriate method of ground rules setting is crucial to informing how the learners will be likely to respond to the ‘ground rules’ and how this will later affect the session or sessions to be delivered.

Students should know if they don’t do his or her work there would be a price to pay. It was appropriate to keep Nicole in from recess as a punishment for not completing her classwork.

In the fast paced world in which we live one can see the trickle down effect of that pace seaping into our school systems. With the mandates No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) brought to the table in 2002 school districts are finding themselves using every spare minute of the day to prepare students for rigorous standardized tests used to not only determine success of the students but also the school and staff. Schools are trying to squeeze more information in an already busy day. When looking at schedules it is a given that children need to eat, forcing schools to not take lunch away, so the only logical solution is to

Schools in Orange county Florida have began to reduce or cancel recess all together so that students can spend more time in the classroom. But they are not alone administrators across the US are making similar changes. “In a nation of increasingly obese kids, getting rid of recess makes no sense.” (Caplan & Igel, 2015, para. 1) The reason behind all of removing kids from there minutes of free time and adding class time is due to common core examinations. There was not enough time in the day for teachers to be able to teach what the students needed in order to pass the test while still allowing their recess time.

Punishment. Mr. Matherson kept her in from recess, shaking his head, and scolding her. I believe there should be some type of punishment for students. If not students will fill like its okay to do anything they want to without getting into trouble over it.

In her Huffington Post blog article titled Here’s One Way to Wreck a Child’s Education: Take Away Recess, Haley Krischer takes an emboldened stand against the practice of eliminating recess; which is often done as a punishment or to make more time for instructional learning. I stand in agreement with Krischer. I do not agree with schools taking away recess for any reason with the exception of dangerous weather or environmental circumstances. Yet, research indicates how common the 86-ing of recess is occurring in schools. A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2010) revealed 77% of school Principals reported taking away recess as a punishment, and 81.5% of schools allow students to be excluded from

The roles, responsibilities and boundaries of a teacher and establishing ground rules within a learning environment

The rule of respect to students to teachers should have an added rule of teachers having to show the same about of respect to students.

Don’t you want your child to stay in school? If your child got in trouble, wouldn’t you rather the situation be handled now? Aren’t suspended students, in a way, just giving them what they want, an excuse to go home? Suspensions have been a recurring event at a lot of schools across the world, but now they are being questioned as to whether or not they are useful. Although suspensions are a temporary solution for schools to figure out what to do with troublemakers, It is time for Schools to get rid of suspensions, because suspensions make students three times more likely to drop out, is only a temporary solution, and can make kids not learn as much.

In order to create a positive classroom culture, teacher need to promote positive relationships between students and with students by taking an interest and have respect for each other. It is extremely important for teacher to get to know the students, their families, and their culture. When a student knows their teacher cares about them, then a relationship of trust will exist between a student and teacher. According to Sayeski and Brown (2011), “teachers who had positive relationships with their student had 31 % fewer discipline problems and rule violations over the course of the year than teachers who did not” (p. 12). In order to know more about them, I will send home a poster board where the students can fill it with any information they would like me and their classmates to know. This constructivist approach gives them the opportunity to be creative and choose what they want to share. The essentialist approach of sending home a questionnaire for the family to fill out will help collect information important to understanding the student. This is the only category where I consider myself an essentialist and constructivist due to how information will be gathered about my students, but this will allow me to build the framework for a positive learning environment for everyone. Having students create a poster will allow their peers to get to know them as an individual. Another way to create a positive environment is having students work together to keep

Next I'll speak on a topic that arose for me as I taught in public schools in the 1970s and 80s. During that time we had some students who regularly disrupted classes, we sent them to the office, and if they were bad enough they were suspended from school. Students like this were relatively rare. The systems of public education have gone on for 20 or 30 years in the same vein. Today if students disrupt class, they are sent to the office, and if this happens often enough, they are suspended from school. Unfortunately, everywhere in the Western world, teachers report that this is much more frequent and prevalent that it was when I was working in classrooms.