Behavior Management & Strategies

• Classroom Agreement: Rules for the classroom that students agree are reasonable, for this grade-level "okay", to understand and follow.
• Warning: When students agree to understand and follow the rules for the classroom and they break the rule they will be given warnings before further actions are taken.
• Time-Out: When three warnings have been given to the student they will be sent to time out for five to ten minutes.
• Regrouping: When the student has served his time-out sentence, they will be asked questions about what happened for them to be sent to time-out. This helps students identify what they did not do right and what they can do to avoid the behavior or action again. They are then asked if they are ready to rejoin their group to continue the lesson.
• Reward System: Rewards, such as stickers and praise, are some rewards to encourage a positive behavior or action. On a regular basis, we reward stickers to students who turn in the weekly assignments or specific documents that they are requested to turn in.
• Proximity of Authority: When I have noticed that a student is sent to time-out more than often, I have the student sit next to me or my mentor to monitor his behavior closely.
• Responsibilities: Giving a student that has behavioral issues responsibilities exposes the student to apathy of what a teacher deals with when students do not listen. A positive to this strategy is that they feel needed and looked up to by other students.