Professional+Wednesdays

Some great comments I heard during our training: "New mixture of compassion, rules, and procedures." "I use the cards to indicate a student's assigned seating." "I have a Daily Journal which students complete as soon as they enter the room." "I have a rule: You must enter my classroom with a gracious demeanor. The students love this expression and they repeat it to each other." Answers from High School:
 * 1) 1. What did you learn from this video that you can or already use in your classroom?
 * Use a number on the desk that corresponds with bell work, daily journal, homework, and exam
 * Guideline infraction slip
 * Pink slip
 * Student signed action plan
 * learns about students’ home life and interests through writings that the students do
 * To have simple yet consistent procedures in the classroom
 * To not jump to conclusions about why kids did or didn’t do something
 * Have a homework folder where students can have to sign when the get work after being absent
 * Use a “No Whining” sign in class
 * Teacher dismisses the class, not the bell


 * 1) 2. What classroom procedures have been most effective in your classroom?
 * Daily journal – used for different things
 * Bell work
 * Honest discourse with students, clear objectives of the assignment, allowing them to be a teenager
 * Students must enter the classroom with a “gracious manner”
 * Allowing students to edit and correct papers and gaining points lost points back
 * Requiring students to treat each other with respect
 * Having a “What Did I Miss” folder for students that have been absent
 * Giving students a job to do in the classroom
 * Having a limit on hall passes
 * Developing relationships with the students