The Routine
Students walk in a circle
Students do locomotive and non-locomotive movements
Students sit on their assigned spotĀ
Students wait for attendance
Students set up instruments
Students warm up with long tones, treasury of scales, scales, and sight-reading
Students wait for attendance and do tuning notes
To Get Their Attention and in General
The open door policy is a great one as the door will always be open for students to ask questions or just talk about how life is outside of school.
Specific hands are great when the students memorize them and know what each hand signal meets and pay more attention in the classroom.
More so for elementary kids but a teacher says a phrase and the kids have the echo the second half of the phrase to the teacher.
Consequences
If a student fails to comply with the rules and procedures established in class, they will be given a 5 questions assignment to take home and have their parents sign and bring back. The teacher will call each parent to make sure the students filled out all of the 5 questions listed above and to make sure the students talked to the parent about their behavior.
If a student does not follow directions, the teacher will put the student in the observation deck, meaning that they won't get to participate in activities until they have proven they will behave.
If it gets too chaotic in the classroom, the students will be told to be silent while they reflect on their behavior in class while the teacher writes to pros and cons on the board until they do behave.