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Your classroom management plan, your classroom rules, and your classroom culture are ALL avenues for integration of restorative practices!
Your classroom management plan, your classroom rules, and your classroom culture are ALL avenues for integration of restorative practices!
We must always keep in mind that sometimes OUR REACTIONS to students' behaviors are the ONLY thing in their daily life that they can control.
We must always keep in mind that sometimes OUR REACTIONS to students' behaviors are the ONLY thing in their daily life that they can control.
Classroom communication, our word choices, and our demeanor with children are the spots to integrate restorative work every day. We must!
Classroom communication, our word choices, and our demeanor with children are the spots to integrate restorative work every day. We must!
Preventative restorative practices include DAILY responsive classroom management and behavioral intervention.
An example of these would be the AFFECTIVE STATEMENTS guide on the opening Restorative Practices page, for example.
There are many ways our classroom management is connected to students' brains, poverty, trauma, learning disabilities, and developmental levels.
Positive or negative, behavior is a form of communication.
Positive or negative, behavior is a form of communication.
It's our job to navigate students' behaviors, determine what they communicate, and decipher what learning needs we have to teach toward in order to alleviate those behaviors. Every behavior has a FUNCTION.
Relationships are at the core of all behavior management.
Relationships are at the core of all behavior management.
Classroom management should be restorative in nature, through both preventative and responsive measures, so that our students are affectively engaged and misbehavior is lessened.
Consequences rooted in punishment do not work to change behavior.
Consequences rooted in punishment do not work to change behavior.
Consequences rooted in relationships do.
Consequences rooted in relationships do.
Kids aren't BAD.
Kids aren't BAD.
Sometimes, their behaviors are. Separate the two in your mind.
Sometimes, their behaviors are. Separate the two in your mind.
A student's role in Classroom Management...
A student's role in Classroom Management...
Each student should have a role in the Classroom Management System you have in place.
Each student should have a role in the Classroom Management System you have in place.
Students behavior improves when they are put in charge of that behavior and when we help them begin to understand their behavior.
Understanding our own behavior and thinking is METACOGNITION.
Very often in schools, students are writing apology letters for misbehavior, which is a great start. Before writing apology letters and saying they're sorry, students need to understand WHY they did what they did and HOW it impacted others.
A sorry for just the sake of punitive consequence won't actually change behaviors.
The template to the left is a solid place to start, for any age.
Classroom management and navigating of our students' behaviors are things we need to plan as diagnostically and methodically as we do curriculum and academic design. We should have classroom management PLANS, as we do lesson plans or as part of our lesson plans!
Classroom management and navigating of our students' behaviors are things we need to plan as diagnostically and methodically as we do curriculum and academic design. We should have classroom management PLANS, as we do lesson plans or as part of our lesson plans!
This is not equal to having classroom rules. It's much more responsive to the students' behavioral needs and much more predictive of student success. IF we have a comprehensive behavioral approach, our rules will be one layer of what leads students to behave the ways we know they can in our classrooms.
This is not equal to having classroom rules. It's much more responsive to the students' behavioral needs and much more predictive of student success. IF we have a comprehensive behavioral approach, our rules will be one layer of what leads students to behave the ways we know they can in our classrooms.
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