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ASSIGNMENT: DESIGNING YOUR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT PLAN

School Placement: Prestwood Elementary

Name: Melissa Roualdes

Respond to the prompts below about the learning environment you plan to establish in your classroom. Enter your response into the electronic
version of this document, so that your response is inside each of the cells below. For each prompt include:
A description of what you will do to establish and/or maintain an effective environment for learning, and
An explanation of why these decisions are appropriate for your classroom. 1
1. Determine a set of Big Ideas which will serve as the umbrella for classroom expectations. (This is not a laundry list of rules but will
serve as the basis of your classroom rules.)

Your Classroom or Schools Big Ideas

Show Respect
Making Good Decisions
Communication
Cooperation

Explanation:

Respect yourself, your

classmates and your
teachers.
Doing what your supposed
to be doing in class.
Communicate with other
teachers, students and
parents to make sure
everyone is on the same
track.
Remember to talk
respectfully to not only your

1 You may wish to consult Smith, Chapters 6, 7, and 9 and your school policies, for other ideas to include in your
explanation.
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teachers but to your friends

and fellow classmates as
well.

2.

Your

Discuss the classroom routines and procedures that you will establish to demonstrate your presence in the classroom and to maximize
instructional time, including how you will establish and maintain them. Include procedures for at least these situations:
Quiet signal (Give me 5) Eyes are watching, ears are
When students first enter the classroom on the first
listening, feet, hands and legs are still.
day, how will you greet your students? How will they
Hand-raising for discussions
know where to sit?
Starting the class or lesson (sponge/warm-up/bell
Bathroom policy
activities)
Dismissing the class at the end of the class or the
Distributing and collecting papers/materials
lesson

Classroom Procedures:
Greeting the students in the morning by name.
Having a Morning Meeting.
A clear list of Classroom Rules.
Bathroom passes by the door.
Classroom Meetings (In the morning or ending the day)
Classroom Jobs for the students.
Goodbyes at the end of the day.

Explanation:
Shows the students that I
care and look forward to
the day.
To make sure that
everyone is on track and
ready for what is going to
happen that day.
To show that we are all
on the same page,
allowing kids to pick rules
will help them follow
them. (ex: bathroom
pass on desk when they
leave)
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Your plan for teaching these procedures:

3.

To check in and make

sure everything is on
track.
To teach students
responsibility.

Explanation

To show the students that when we have a classroom that works

for everyone, it will be easier to learn and teach.
By being organized, it in turn will help the students to be
organized.

In what ways will you establish clear expectations for academic and social behavior and respond to behavior that does not meet
those expectations? Include information on the following:
A list of 3-6 classroom policies that describe what you can and cant live within your classroom.
A list of consequences so you know how to intervene when behavior is not following a classroom policy.
An explanation of how you will communicate the importance of these policies.

Your Classroom Rules/policies:

Consequences:

Explanation:
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Raise Your Hand

Respect your classmates and teacher
Do your classroom job

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Your plan for communicating these rules/policies and

consequences:
Having an open discussion with the students,
and being able to have them choose the
rules, jobs that need to be done and ways
that they can help in the class.
By allowing them to be a part of this, they
maybe more inclined to following them.

Warning (2) then

having to sit out.
Think about the
why you are
sitting, and what
can you do
differently?
If there are still
issues that need
to be addressed,
there should
always be
communication
with the teacher
and the parents.

Allowing them to
have a change or
two, then having
them really think
about what they did
wrong or why in the
end they did not
listen.

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4. Other than the procedures, noted above, what environmental supports will you have in place to support positive behaviors?

Establishment of physical boundaries, planned traffic areas and open

space within room:
Visual Cues:
Raising of hands, or a hand signal, give me 5
Teaching of procedures:
Reinforcement, Reinforcement, and Reinforcement

Material organizations system:

Students will each have their own mailboxes.
Students will have their own supplies, so there will be not
fighting over whos marker is whos.

Explanation:

To not call out the student

verbally and allow them to
see the cue, so they can
then get back on track.
All work can go in one
space, allowing the students
to be able to keep track of
their own work.
Can go back to their work
when needed.
Parents can look for
important information in
students take home folders.

Instruction and use of aide:

Small group work
Catch Up
Going over material that student is not understanding
Assessments

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5. Draw a classroom plan