Procedures

Having an anchor chart to help students when they are transition to different things, such as morning meeting, is important because if by chance they forget any steps of what to do, they can look for the anchor chart in the classroom. During the first week of school, I will put up this anchor chart in my classroom and go over each individual step with my students. I will model the wrong way to transition to morning meeting, while also modeling the correct way and behavior that is expected when transition to morning meeting. I will then have my students practice transitioning to morning meeting as a class a couple of times that week so that they can get a feel for how it will actually go once we get into a routine. This supports teacher accountability as it is the teacher job to demonstrate/model the correct and incorrect ways to do a procedure in the classroom.

In the beginning of the school year, I will model how students should be working independently. I will also show what level our voices should be at during this working period, and how to see your eyes on your own desk so that you can focus on the work in front of you. I would have two brave students help me demonstrate to the class what to do and what not to do during quiet working time. I will have one student doing the correct thing and the other student doing the wrong thing. The class will then tell me which way is correct. Once they tell me their answer, I will ask them why they think that, leading to them giving me their reasoning. This connects to positive reinforcement because as the teacher, I will be providing good feedback to each student that helped to demonstrate how to work independently and for showing the things that students shouldn't be doing during independent time.

Within the past couple of years, technology has blossomed into classroom, especially elementary schools. I've seen that the younger grades have started using Chromebooks to do their work once they come into the classroom in the morning. In the beginning of the school year, specifically on the first day, I will show students how to take the Chromebook out of the cart with gentle hands, place it on their desk, open it carefully, how to sign in, and get on the apps they will be completing work on. The class will have little workshops in groups where they show the teacher how to use a Chromebook in the correct manner. This also goes back to Teacher Responsibility because the teacher is in charge of every student in the class and in charge of those students' education for the school year. It is the teacher jobs to make sure the students know how to handle Chromebooks since they are new to them.