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Classroom Rules & Behavior Management

At ERS, we do a lot of pre-teaching, modeling, reminding, and rewarding of appropriate behaviors.  We are a PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports) school.  PBIS is a systematic and research based model in which we pre-teach, model and reinforce a set of behavioral expectations throughout each area of the school.  Our school has three main behavioral goals. 
We want our students to be:
  • Respectful
  • Responsible
  • Safe. 
Through PBIS, we teach our students exactly what it means and what it looks like to be respectful, responsible & safe.  We focus on one particular behavior or area of the school at at time (ex:  What does it mean to be respectful in the cafeteria?).  We model for the students what this looks like and we recognize students who achieve the expected behavior.  For those students who struggle with our school-wide behavioral expectation, we create an intervention or support system to help them reach a behavioral goal.  This is a great resource for teachers, students and their families.  For more information on PBIS, see your ERS Parent Handbook.  Each teacher is free to design a classroom management strategy that works for them and their students.  Mine is as follows.:

I will spend much of the beginning of the year teaching and modeling the expected behaviors for my class.  We also revisit these expectations as needed.  Teaching procedures is also very important.  One of my biggest jobs at the beginning of the school year is to teach the children how to go to school.  There is a lot to learn & remember. 


    • My Kindergarten Rules
    1. Take care of yourself.
    2. Take care of each other.
    3. Take care of our school.
    These are simple rules that cover all behavioral expectations in my classroom and throughout the school!
    We will explore, discuss & model what these rules look like! 

    I have created a tool for our class which will help reinforce our behavioral expectations.  I use a pocket chart with an outer space theme!  I have created a card which represents each child.  These cards can be moved to the different color zones on the pocket chart depending on your child's behavior. 

    Each child starts the day out in the GREEN ZONE.  This is a nice place to be.  The goal is for every child to still be in the green zone by the end of the day.  This means that your child has had a great day.  He/she has followed our school & class behavioral expectations & procedures with few reminders throughout the day. 

    If your child has needed frequent reminders or time away from the group for not following these expectations and procedures, he/she will need to visit the YELLOW ZONE on our chart.  It happens sometimes.  We might be having an off day and needed some extra support!  I hope visits to the yellow zone will be infrequent.  I will inform you if your child is having frequent yellow zone days.

    If your child is repeatedly disruptive, disrespectful, defiant, or acts violently he/she will be moved to the RED ZONE on our chart.  This will be partnered with an appropriate and relevant consequence.  You will also receive a note home from me, letting you know in what way your child struggled.  It's very important that you have a discussion with your child about their day if you receive a note.  When your child knows that we are on the same page and that we both have the same expectations; this can make a huge difference in your child's school behavior.

    Lastly, there is the BLUE ZONE.  This zone is for those students who have had the most amazing, wonderful, superb, excellent, out of this world day!  Sometimes I am so overcome with excitement and pride in something your child has done that I want to shout it from the rooftop!  I can't just leave the class and go climb up on the roof though, can I?  Instead, I praise the living daylights out of your child, have them ceremoniously move their card to the blue zone, and write you a note telling you all about how wonderful your child is (as if you didn't know!).  You can then feel free to shout it from your roof at will!  In case you didn't notice; this is a big deal! 

    My goal is that through teaching, modeling, reminding, and reinforcing my classroom expectations, each child will know what is expected of them and act accordingly.  If your child continuously struggles behaviorally, I will set up a meeting with you to discuss further behavioral supports or interventions which might best serve your child and our class.