Ms.

Wallers Behavior Management Plan

Statement of Purpose:
Our classroom is a fun, safe, and positive learning environment. There are high expectations of
the students; they are required to do their best and they will be challenged as they grow and
actively participate in their education.

Classroom Rules:
1. Use your inside voice and walking feet
2. Keep hands and feet to yourself
3. Treat yourself, others and everything else with respect
4. Raise your hand and quietly wait to be called on when you have a question, concern or
comment
5. Follow the teachers directions

Classroom Procedures:

Procedure 1: Arrival
Place your coat and backpack in your locker
Walk into the class room quietly
Put your school materials and books in your desk
Turn in your homework into the basket
Check yourself in, check off whether you are eating hot or cold lunch
Complete classroom chores
Make sure you have at least two sharpened pencils
If finished early, read the What Else Can I Do? poster and pick one to do
Be in your seat when the bell rings

Procedure 2: Bathroom
Only raise your hand to go if its an emergency, otherwise wait; dont disrupt the class
Take a hall pass and walk quietly in the hallway
Make sure you are also quiet in the bathroom
Wash and dry your hands
Walk quietly back to class and put the hall pass back
Sit back at your seat

Procedure 3: Lining up (to go to another class, in the hallway, etc.)
Stand up straight at the door; single file line
Hands at your side and to yourself
Face forward
Voices off

Procedure 4: Tardy
Get a pass from the office
Give the pass to myself, or if Im teaching, place it in the basket
Quietly complete the arrival procedures
Join the class and start working

Procedure 4: Dismissal
Make sure all your homework is in your take home folder, or if finished place in the
basket
Make sure you have all the assignment written down in your assignment notebook
Clean up any messes in your area
Get your belongings (coat, backpack etc.) from your locker
Pack your backpack and put on your clothing
Quietly line up at the door until you are dismissed

Procedure 6: Absence
Check your slot for any work missed
If you have any missed work, place in your take home folder
You have the amount of days you were absent plus one more day to make up your
missed work and/or test
You will lose 10% of the grade each day your homework is late; if it comes to 0%, I will
no longer accept your missed homework assignment(s)

Positive Consequences:

Free and Frequent Intermittent Strong and Long term
Stickers either on
homework or chart
Verbal praise and
compliments
Thumbs up
High five
Helper of the day
Note sent home or a
call to parents
Student of the week
Friday party day
Field Trip
Certificate

Negative Consequences:
Level 1: Class Reminder
Level 2: Individual Reminder
Level 3: Modification: (move a student to another desk area)
Level 4: Loss of recess time
Level 5: Call the Parents
Level 6: Send the student(s) to the office
Crisis Plan:
1. A pre-designated student will be sent to the office with a crisis card
2. Call a teacher nearby letting him/her know that you will be sending students to his/her
classroom
3. Help the student reestablish self-control
4. Once the crisis has been addressed, retrieve the rest of the students back to the class room
5. Let the parents know what happened

Action Plan Develop:

What? How? When?
Contact information form -Type a form in which parents
will fill out
Includes: parents/guardians
names, relationship to
student, phone numbers, and
e-mails
Prior to the start of school
Crisis note template -Type a note in which can be
quickly filled out in an
emergency
Prior to the start of school
Substitute teacher folder -Have a folder with all
important (general and
specific) information
Prior to the start of school
Student of the Week -Create certificate
-Create SotW bulletin board
Prior to the start of school
Class rules Create with students First day of school
Post rules in classroom Readable, and placed in
several areas in the room
First week of school

Action Plan Teach:

What? How? When?
Consequences Explain to students what
students will receive for
positive and negative
behaviors
First day of school
Rules Role-play; groups of students
select a rule to model what it
looks like
Second week of school
Revisit Remind students throughout
the year rules and procedures
As needed

Action Plan Share:

What? How? When?
Share with Principal Meet and review plan Prior to the start of school
Share with Teachers -Give a copy to teachers who
will be working with your
students
-Have a copy in the substitute
folder
As needed
Share with Parents -Send information home to
parents (gets signed by
parent)
-Conference with parents if
needed
First week of School and as
needed

Action Plan Review:

What? How? When?
Schedule review sessions Plan to review at the end of
each quarter
Prior to the start of school
Review sessions: Modify Identify any strengths,
weaknesses, problems, etc.
and modify the plan
accordingly
End of every quarter or as
needed
With Parents Conference with the parents Parent/Teacher Conferences