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SOCIAL NORMS:
In my classroom, social norms are general expectations and standards for both acceptable and unacceptable behaviors that everyone will follow in order to create a safe and friendly classroom environment. These social norms will help create goals and high expectations in our class. A positive classroom atmosphere, successful classroom management, and increased instruction time will also be accessible through the classroom social norms in place. The students will know and understand our class's social norms because the students will create them together, sign a social contract, reflect on them daily or weekly, and they will be posted in the classroom for everyone to see at all times. The parents will know and understand our class's social norms because they will be sent out and presented to them on curriculum night at the beginning of the school year. Our social norms for our classroom will help us everyday throughout the whole school year and hold everyone in the class accountable to the same behavioral expectations including the students and myself.
EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL NORMS:
EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL NORMS:
Listening Bodies
I will listen and follow directions.
Raised Hands
I will raise my hand to share ideas.
Quiet Mouths
I will use a soft voice.
Walking Feet
I will walk in school to be safe.
Helping Hands
I will use my hands for helping not hurting.
Caring Hearts
I will use kind words.
PROCEDURES:
In my classroom, procedures will be a part of everything from what I teach, rehearse, and reinforce. Our class procedures will explain how something should be done effectively and efficiently. As the teacher, it will be my responsibility to clearly state the procedure, demonstrate it, rehearse it, and reinforce it in order for students to fully understand them and practice them themselves. To accomplish learning our classroom procedures, I will use the "I do it, we do it, you do it." method to teach the classroom procedures. Throughout the school year, but especially during the beginning of the school year, I will continue teaching the students the procedures by practicing them together, giving and receiving feedback. My class's procedures are important for teaching and learning because it creates a flow, consistent, predictable, and stable classroom environment. This is because students know how to do it, where to do it, and when to do it when it comes to procedures in the classroom. With these class procedures, students will help create a successfully managed classroom by being kind to themselves, others, and their environment.
EXAMPLES OF PROCEDURES:
Procedure:
Procedure:
When students arrive
Preparing for class
Transitions
Absent work
Voice level
Formatting paper
Lining up and walking in the hallway
When students depart
expectation:
expectation:
Put stuff away, read board, get to work
Put stuff away, sharpen pencils, supplies ready
Hand signals and responses
Spot to return and retrieve work
Follow voice level light, eyes on teacher, be quiet, and listen
Name, date, student number
Follow expectations stated each time together
Agenda/planner, get stuff, pick up things, push in chairs, wait quietly
CONSEQUENCES AND REWARDS:
In order to follow our classroom social norms, procedures, and other rules, there will be consequences for inappropriate behavior and rewards for appropriate behavior. Some examples of consequences students can expect are individual conversations, following a "You break it, you fix it." rule, and if they say one mean thing they have to apologize and say three nice things in return. Some examples of rewards students can expect individually are scratch off reward tickets, behavior punch cards, and positive notes home to parents. Some examples of rewards students can expect as a class are an incentive marble jar, a mystery reward board, and the secret student of the week. All of these rewards will help students stay accountable and motivated to follow the classroom rules both individually and as a whole class.
Individual reward example:
Individual reward example:
Example of a positive note sent home with the student to their parents when they individually follow social norms, procedures, and/or rules.
class reward example:
class reward example:
Example of a whole class reward system in which a sticky note of a classroom social norm, procedure, or rule is pulled off when all students are following it in order to slowly reveal an incentive.
REFERENCES:
Classroom Expectations Example: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50544/
Social Contract Example:
Hand Signal Example:
https://mrsbsbeehive.com/2014/08/hand-signal-bookmark.html
Voice Level Example:
Positive Note Home Example:
https://hillarykiser.blog/2019/07/23/winning-over-parents/amp/
Mystery Reward Board Example:
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