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Classroom Management Plan

Jessica Gowers

University of Utah
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Classroom Management Plan

Preamble
Education has been the most rewarding and enriching experience I have had to date. I
became interested in education when I realized that I felt that helping others in their futures
was what made me happy. Becoming a teacher seemed to be the most rewarding way to do just
that. I look forward to seeing my students grow and learn to help them advance towards a
successful future.
Preventative Techniques
My classroom climate is based around the sense of community. Each day, the entire class
meets together for a morning class meeting to bring together and address any form of
information, announcement, or decision. I feel that by creating this culture will help for my
students to understand how to not only understand that they play a greater role as an individual
but also as a teammate to their peers and to me as their teacher. My classroom rules, seating
chart, and jobs all have input from my students in efforts to have my students play a role in
creating a community within our classroom. As said by William Glasser, students sense power
when asked to participate in making decisions about topics to be studied and procedures for
working in class, and also when given responsibility for classroom chores such as caring for
classroom plants and animals, distributing and taking care of materials, keeping the classroom
neat, being in charge of media equipment, and so forth (1998). I firmly believe that students
who play a valuable role in creating the classroom environment will lead to a safer learning
environment and richer educational experience.
Supportive Techniques
From my time working within Granite School District and from my education at the
University of Utah, I have adapted the Big 8 teaching strategies to help form my instructional
methods. Each area of instruction has provided me the opportunity to enhance my instruction
with each of the 8 strategies.

Voice helps me to monitor my classroom noise level as well as an attention getter.

Signaling has helped to keep my classroom engagement and work ethic.
Cueing has been an incredible class management technique to have intrinsic motivation.
Expectations are placed and practice from the first day of school.
Attentions prompts are not only engaging but a much better alternative to the old
fashioned shhh!
Time limits hold my students accountable to their accomplishments and management
skills.
Tasking helps me to ensure that my students are actively and appropriately engaged
during instructional time.
Proximity is a fantastic way to monitor student participation, provide a quick and
effective class management skill, and to look for opportunities for other Big 8 methods.
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Intervention Techniques
As an entire class, all of my students are provided with my own classroom behavioral
expectations and consequences. I use a clip-chart system which most of my students
understand the function of the chart from previous classroom experiences. As we have discussed
in class, creating a clip chart with several steps to any consequence or reward is ineffective. I
have created a chart that allows students one warning and then a contact home and one the
positive end of the chart the students have two chances to arrive to the top of the chart to
receive a reward of their choosing. This may include anything from sitting in the teachers chair
for the day to receiving a Patriot Ticket for the school-wide drawing.
My behavioral chart plan is as follows:
1. A verbal warning to clip down on behavior clip chart.
2. Student based conference to meet individually with Ms. Gowers to discuss an appropriate
consequence.
3. Call home to parent.
4. Office visit
Students who arrive to a one-on-one moment of invention with the teacher takes place in
a very student based conference. Within these conferences the student will be in charge of the
following:

Explanation of the event(s) for the conference.

Reasoning for the occurrence.
Possible individual choices that the student could have made to have a win-win result.
Outcome

I aim to have my student involved in my intervention techniques as much as possible to

help them feel the sense of power as mentioned by Maslow (1954) to have input towards their
own consequence.
Procedures

A classrooms procedures are expectations and routines that should be set from the first
day of school. I believe this practice is extremely valuable in order to set a tone and use the Big 8
strategy of expectations immediately for the students. A procedure should be in place for almost
any occurrence within the classroom. This includes everything from lining up for lunch to what
time they are allowed to sharpen their pencils. As I put into place each procedure, I follow the 3
steps Harry and Rosemary Wong suggest for procedural instruction. These steps are:

1. Teach
2. Rehearse
3. Reinforce
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Communication with Parents

School to home communication plays a huge key role towards students success within
the classroom. I have found that when the teacher makes effort to provide any information about
their students interactions, accomplishments, or other events the teacher builds a positive
relationship with the parent. The main form of communication I use with my parents is through
the app ClassDojo. This app has provided me with an easy and fun interactive approach to home-
school communication. I am able to instantly report home any important information such as
parent teacher conference dates, upcoming assemblies or field trips, and even post pictures of
what we are doing in class. Parents have been very approachable and communicate effectively
with me as the teacher whenever a concern or question arises through this application. Not only
does active and genuine communication to parents and families help to build relationships, but
also helps to establish a caring/loving/warm atmosphere (Colker 2008).

My main goal during my first year of teaching has been to really develop my classroom
management. I feel that the base to my classroom management techniques revolve around the
Big 8 teaching strategies and each additional area of management that arises can easily fall under
one of the eight strategies. I aim to have my students feel that each day they are in my classroom,
they are in safe and comfortable learning area to help ensure that they are receiving the best
possible education.
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References

Building Classroom Disciple, C.M. Charles, 2011.

The First Days of School, H.Wong & R. T. Wong. 1991.
Young Children. L. Colker. 2008.