Commentary of Artifact 5

Behavior Reflection Form & Detention Notification - Field

Standards: 5, 6
Goals: 2,
This artifact contains two material of my second year teaching, a behavior reflection
form, which is for students to fill out when the break classroom rules, and a detention
notification, which is a card students bring home when they get a detention for
misbehaving.
I developed these two forms based on the need of classroom management and my
learning of MATC courses.
According to the concepts of CEP891, on one hand, adolescents of this age have already
started to take charge of their life to some extent. They, somewhat, want to take
responsibility of their own and should be encouraged to do so. Under the direction of
these concepts, I started to guide students to think about their behavior and encouraged
them to take their own responsibility for that. Instead of just refer to consequences of
breaking the rules, I let students to reflect on their behavior by filling out the behavior
reflection form, and think about how to improve in the future.
On the other hand, adolescents are still kids. They are not mature enough to take full
responsibilities. Guardian involvement is still necessary to deal with most problems.
According to this, I wanted to have parents and guardians more involved in classroom
management. Although I used to call and email parents, even meet with them to talk
about students behavior issues, it did not always happen. Most of the time, I was trying
to solve the problems in class. In this semester, I tried to be more strict and consistent
with classroom rules. I issued more detentions to misbehaving students and gave them
the detention notifications, on which a parent or guardian signature is required. In this
way, parents and guardians would know what happened in class and could take action
on the issues.

Behavior Reflection Form

Name: ________________________________ Date: _______________________
Please answer in complete sentences using your best writing.
1. What did I do?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
2. How often does this happen? Circle one.
very often

sometimes

rarely

3. Why was this inappropriate? What problems did it cause?

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
4. Two things I will do differently next time to help me are the following:
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Teacher Signature: ___________________________________________________________
Teacher Comments (optional): __________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Parent Signature: ____________________________________________________________
Parent Comments (optional): ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
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Detention Notification
Student Name:

Date Issued:

Reason for
Detention:
Detention
Date:

Detention
Time:

Teacher
Signature:

Parent
Signature:

This notification must be returned to the teacher with parent's signature when student come to serve the
detention.

Detention Notification
Student Name:

Date Issued:

Reason for
Detention:
Detention
Date:

Detention
Time:

Teacher
Signature:

Parent
Signature:

This notification must be returned to the teacher with parent's signature when student come to serve the
detention.

Detention Notification
Student Name:

Date Issued:

Reason for
Detention:
Detention
Date:

Detention
Time:

Teacher
Signature:

Parent
Signature:

This notification must be returned to the teacher with parent's signature when student come to serve the
detention.