This classroom management plan is a result of the collaboration between myself and my partners in Senior Practicum. Our behavior management plan includes a tiered behavioral intervention plan for individual students, a whole class management plan, and some other various rules/expectations for the class. While having a plan is a good starting point, it means nothing if you cannot actually implement the behavior plan in the classroom. On the very first day in class with the students, we made sure to make our expectations very clear to the students. We went over the classroom rules and what they looked like, and then we made sure to model what the expected behavior looked like in the classroom. We also made sure to go over our plan for P.A.T and explained how students could gain or lose minutes based on their behavior. When students began to misbehave in the classroom, we were firm with them and reminded them of our classroom rules. This has helped us to maintain positive student behavior in the classroom and has allowed us to spend most of our time teaching students rather than correcting them.

This is another example of a behavior management plan that I created based off of a video of a class. This management plan differs from the one discussed previously because it is based on a method designed to encourage students to develop self-control and responsibility. For example, each of my students would develop their own unique S.M.A.R.T goals based off of what they need to do to improve their focus, behavior, and effort in the classroom. Students would also be asked to reflect on their progress throughout the year. While this behavior plan is purely hypothetical, I really like the idea of implementing a behavior plan that encourages students to take responsibility for their actions and self-regulate as needed. I believe this method would keep the classroom from becoming authoritarian and help make the standards of conduct clear to students (because they would have designed their interventions themselves). Due to the individual nature of the interventions and goals, students would feel responsible for their own behavior.