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Classroom Management Plan

General classroom control
General Rules
The rules will be clearly stated and reasonably explained. They rules and expectations
will be posted in front of the classroom on a big poster that can be seen from every position in
the room. For the early childhood level, pictures and visuals should be placed next to each rule.
For older students who have a better fluency in reading, there will be a document showing each
students signature, saying they know the rules and will follow them. Students will then know
that if they do not follow the rules, there will be consequences to their choices and actions. It is a
goal to sit down at the beginning of the year and make students a part of the rule making process.
The rules should be something they own and something they understand along with the rules
enforced by the teacher.
1. Share with others and negotiate; we want to get along with everyone. When it
comes to teaching young children, developing their social and emotional domain
is very important. It is important for children at the Kindergarten age to develop
negotiating skills; children need to learn how to share, an essential skill they will
use their whole life.
2. Use your words to solve a problem. If the conflict cannot be solved on your own,
ask a teacher for help.
3. Respect; treat others as you wish to be treated. This also includes
a. Be polite and be courteous. Use you manners (please and thank you and
no thank you).
b. Listen to others when they are speaking. Eyes and ears are forward and
lips are quiet, hands in lap.
c. Dont interrupt and blurt out. Raise your hand if you would like to be
called on.
d. Keep hands and feet to yourself. Respect your space and others space.
4. Try your best and make a good effort. It is important to do your absolute best and
ask for help.
5. Be responsible. What is your role in the class? Clean up after yourself and be a
good friend and help others clean up their mess. Not only are you being
responsible, but helpful.

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Consequences
Especially working with a young age, you cannot have your favorite student or students.
Everyone needs to be treated fairly. When students choose not to follow the rules, the
consequences need to be consistent with everyone.
Force is no longer allowed in schools, and in my opinion, should have never existed.
Now students have choices. When children arent willing to move on to the next subject and
want to continue to play, give them the choice to let them do it themselves or you will help them.
They need to know that you are not going to give in and that you mean business. It is good that
they are enjoying themselves, but they need to come back with the class and engage with the
lesson.
Inappropriate behavior is not acceptable and will not be tolerated. Everyone is to keep
their hands and feet to themselves. As stated, if children choose to disrespect toys or objects in
the classroom, they will no longer have the opportunity to use it until they are responsible
enough to treat it appropriately. The same rules apply to treating peers and adults with respect.
Students will be asked to put their head down alone at a table or at their desk when they have
been reminded once to follow directions. Afterwards, when class is transitioning, that is when
they will be talked to by the teacher and they will discuss their choices and what they should
have done.
Children who do not make an effort to do their work are going to get special attention.
Some kids are going to be stubborn and lazy and refuse to do their work. They are going to fidget
in their seat, talk to other people around them and distract them from their work, or goof around
with things in their desks. They are going to end up being isolated from the other students at a
desk, near the teacher where they can observe how they are doing on their work and discipline
them away from other students and be less disruptive. If there is an aid in the classroom, utilize
them with these students and have them site near them while continuing instruction and avoiding
disruption.

Classroom Management, Organization and Experiences page

Management and Organization

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Classroom management is organization of students, space, time, and materials so that

learning can occur. In a well-managed classroom, students need to be involved in their work.
Teacher-led instruction should be limited, but guiding the students should always be taking place.
Students will know what is expected of them, there will be no wasted time due to confusion or
disruptions, and the classroom will be work oriented, yet pleasant and relaxed.
Classroom Layout
The room is going to be very organized and neat. Everything will have a certain place in
the classroom and will have a box and be labeled. The boxes of toys and tools will have places
on the shelves that will be child height and accessible to them. The walls will be colorful and not
bare. Childrens artwork will be hung up along with posters that are informational and age
appropriate and then there will be decorations that will accommodate to the center they are in.
The posters will include charts and diagrams that are created by them in large group sessions as
well as informational charts that are created for specific lessons. There will be space to play and
move about the room. Each center will have an area to sit and work individually and somewhere
to play on the floor; they will each have a distinct borderline, separate from any other learning
area.
Part of management and also a big expectation of the teacher will be to always be ready
for anything, in this case, students having free time, after an assignment or when a lesson is done
being taught early. Around the room will be little activities that children can do by themselves or
with a partner when they are finished with all of their work. For older students, upper elementary
and above, there will be a little file where the kids can choose from a number of worksheets to
occupy themselves with coloring pages, crossword puzzles, flash cards, and alphabet or
number worksheets. For younger students like Kindergarten and first grade, puzzles, books, and
math tools can be set out on the floor for students to venture to.
But to have extra time and finishing early teaching a lesson means the time wasnt
prepared well for that day. That is going to have to be one of the expectations. The teacher needs
to be scheduled and well prepared every day. It is ok to have students that finish early, as long as
they have done quality work, but then there needs to be work that is fun for them to do and keep
them occupied while others finish up their work. In the classroom, there will be a schedule

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posted on the board of the days events, that way children know what the day consists of and
what time it will be at.
Expectations of the teacher
1. Be open to using any teaching style to help my students learn
a. Give as many possible learning opportunities to the students as possible
2. Be firm, but fair.
3. Have an open door policy to the students, parents or guardians, and faculty
4. Have god time management and organization
5. Be able to answer the question why? So many children will have this question and as a
teacher, you have to be able to know what it is you are teaching, understand it, and easily
explain it to your student(s) in a way that they are going to pick up on it.
6. Show your students that you are passionate about what you do and let them know that
you care about them. This doesnt mean, be their best friend, but someone they can look
up to and come to with any situation or problem. Its good for children to know they
someone like that in their life.
Expectations of the students Always hold high and positive expectations for students
With young children, you can only have so high of expectations, but it doesnt mean that
you cant have high expectations, you just have to work towards them. Students will be expected
to act appropriately and responsibly in the classroom, the hallways, on the playground, and in
public. It is a teachers aim to help his/her students develop and grow in all domains and to have
students socially and emotionally act their age, or maybe a little bit older, will be an
accomplishment
All children are capable of learning and children will also be expected to try their hardest
and never give up, no matter how difficult something may be.

List of Procedures/Routines you will use with brief explanation

In a classroom, there may be a procedure or routine for almost everything that you do
with your students, especially with young children who are learning about responsibility and how
to act appropriately. It is important to practice, practice, practice all of the routines and

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dedicating the first few weeks or even the first month to mastering procedures and routines:
explain, rehearse, and reinforce. It is especially important when you want your students to meet
your expectations. Procedures in my classroom would include:
1. Job Chart the job chart is an organizational tool for the teacher and the students.
This is used to give students responsibility in the classroom and keep track of who
does what and whose turn it is to do what. There are morning jobs and afternoon jobs
to take care of and they have to check the chart in the morning right when they come
in to school to do their job and they do the same in the afternoon before going home.
The room has to be tidy, toys put away, chairs stacked, any animals fed, desks cleaned
off and papers put away.
2. Snack time Snack time can be part of the Job Chart. This can also give the students
a sense of responsibility.
3. Hand washing It is important to avoid illness and keep students healthy. Little
children are going to be coughing and have runny noses, so make sure your students
wash their hands before and after anytime they eat and especially after using the
restroom.
4. Attendance personally, attendance should not have to include the children. It just
takes time away from learning time, therefore it will be a procedure for the teacher to
do while students are coming in from the bus, doing their jobs, and starting morning
work.
5. Schedule throughout the day as said before, there will be a chart on the front board
where the students will see their schedule for the day. This will be part of the group
time where students will talk about the date, time, weather, and any other day starters.
The chart will be a reference for them so that they do not have to constantly ask the
teacher what is next, and they can see what to look forward to.
6. Getting students attention can take more time than wished. Some of the few
strategies to regain student attention that are seen to be successful are:
a. Give me five
b. Pure silence and counting on hands how long it takes for them to notice
c. Name on the board in the name box
d. Standing behind the distracted students
7. Lining up at the door and walking through the hallways walking through the
hallways is an everyday thing. You line up at the door to go to lunch, to a special, or
to another classroom. When lining up at the door, each table has to be quiet before

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getting called on to get up. Then as students are called on, they must be quiet, not
touching one another, with heads facing forward. By the door will be a poster that is a
reminder.
a. Silent eyes are facing forward, ears are listening and lips are zipped.
b. Straight students are standing right behind one another in a hug line.
c. Still hands are at their sides and they are not turned around talking or
bouncing back and forth.
8. Group circle time on the mat Most early childhood classrooms have a teachers
chair and an open area or a big floor rug for children to sit on during circle time. This
is usually when students are doing beginning of the day things, story time, or group
discussion or lesson. Quiet tables will be called on to take a seat on the mat. Students
have the opportunity to sit by their friends, but if they are being disruptive, then the
teacher will get to pick where they sit. Everyone will sit crisscross applesauce or
Indian style with hands in their laps. At a young age, when students are still growing
and developing, it can be hard to sit crisscross applesauce for a long time. It wouldnt
hurt to consider letting student sit differently once in a while or have a few minutes
set aside to allow student to stretch out before sitting again in the same position.
While the teacher is teaching, students are to be quiet and have their eyes on them,
bodys facing them. When they have a question or want to answer one, they must
raise their hand and wait to be called on, unless otherwise told differently.
9. Leaving the classroom The same rules follow when an individual has to go into the
hallway. There isnt to be any goofing around. They are to get whatever job done and
come back to class. Hanging by the door, will be a girls pass and a boys pass. Only
two students maybe gone at a time, with the exceptions of emergencies. Before they
can take a pass, they have to ask permission of the teacher to leave the room once
approved; they take the pass down, put it on their desk, and do their business. Most
often though in an early childhood classroom, there is a bathroom for students. For
the schools that do provide classroom bathrooms, students will learn a signal to
quietly alert the teacher that they need to use the restroom. For example, when they
quietly hold their hand up in a fist, they can let us know that they need to be excused.
If there is an emergency, students can know that they may just go to the bathroom as
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10. Emergency procedures emergency drills are very important when it comes to going
over procedures. It is important for children to understand what is going on and to
follow directions. Students need to feel safe and calm, not scared and overwhelmed.
Thats when the teacher needs to enlighten the students and make them feel safe.
Explain what the different alarms sound like because that alone can overwhelm a
child who is sensitive to loud sounds. The school will usually provide the procedures
in an emergency packet and the teachers job is to follow the process and ensure the
safety of all her students. The teacher needs to go along with school wide practices,
but also practice on their own time to make sure students know what to do in a fire,
lock down, or tornado drill. The emergency packets will have a special place near the
door where they will always be kept and easily accessed.
Belief about classroom discipline
Not all children are the same and come from different life styles and living situations. It is
helpful to talk to your students, especially when they are acting out and displaying poor behavior
in the classroom. An important factor to remember when disciplining a child is to let the parents
know that their child is having difficulty cooperating in class. Keeping communication with
parents allows you to build healthy relationships with them and have their cooperation as well.
There may be a chance that the parents can enforce the disciplinary actions from school at home.
When it comes to minor disruptions, it is good to talk to the students out of class time and
let them know that you notice their behavior and that it needs to stop. During class time and in
the middle of a lesson, we dont want to single students out and embarrass them, as well as
interrupt everyones learning. You need to earn their respect in order for them to listen and learn
from you. Basically in this situation, students need to be given warnings and know that you mean
business and you are not going to give in to their silliness. To avoid minor disruptions and
singling out a student, work the crowd. Dont give them the chance to goof around. Walk around
the room, which is neatly organized and has open space to walk around to observe every student.
By doing this you can avoid making the disciplinary action the classs business; the other
students dont need to know what is going on, they should pay attention to their own work.
Ongoing misbehavior is an issue and it is hard to teach your class of twenty or so when
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starting minor disruptions, a quiet space or send them to an isolated table with their head down
may get your point across. Dont send them out of the classroom where you cannot see them and
monitor their behavior.
Then there are the students who are troubled and may be more violent or aggressive than
most. A teacher only knows so much about their students; only what they can get out of their
student and anything else from faculty and official paperwork. Only talking to these students is
not going to cut it. When dealing with these children, it doesnt hurt to talk to your colleagues
about how to handle the situation if what you are doing isnt successful. If a student is being
violent physically or verbally, it is important to separate the infractions quickly. It is not ok to
abuse other classmates. This breaks the rule of respect completely. The student needs to be
isolated and sent to the office, especially if the infraction is reoccurring, but not every single
time. Sending them to the office is going to be costly, but it is important to keep all of your
students safe. At this point, parents really need to be involved and come in to talk with the
teacher and the principle; parents should have already been informed when the problem started
that way we avoid blind-siding them. The meeting needs to have a final decision as to how to
handle the child. Should they be in another classroom, should they have a teacher aid with them
at all times, depending on the severity of the infraction, should they be suspended or expelled?
There are so many questions to ask and so many points to cover when dealing with these
situations. We just need to make sure that students are safe, are comfortable, and are learning.
Final Thoughts
I plan on being that facilitative, executive teacher; caring, easy-going, relaxed yet serious,
organized. I know that I am going to make up my own ideas and steal some from colleagues and
Im not afraid to use different teaching philosophies in my classroom. Students are there to learn
and the purpose of education is to produce not just good learners, but also good people
(Hardin, 2008, p. 142). There is no doubt that I am going to have to manage and discipline
students, but I will only do it to enforce a thriving, positive learning environment. The young
children that I will teach are our future and we want every one of them to be well-educated, wellrounded citizens in society.