Classroom Management Plan

In my future classroom, I hope to cultivate a positive learning environment

where students feel safe and successful. I believe this can be achieved
through meaningful lessons, authentic student-teacher relationships, and
continuous support. Below are the classroom norms that I wish to establish to
help support student learning.

Classroom Norms
We ALL deserve respect.
Every student should feel comfortable being themselves, and this
starts with mutual respect for one another. My hope is that this
translates to high student engagement, lively discussions, and a fun
class.
Give ALL students opportunities to speak/participate in class
Model mutual respect with each student, and discuss examples
of disrespect

Together, we can all be successful.

Problem solving is a collaborative process that involves student
discourse and productive struggle. In doing so, I hope to develop a
nobody gets left behind kind of environment.
Assign group work and/or projects with assigned roles
Encourage students to ask and answer each others questions in
class

Ask questions often.

Students questions serve as teacher feedback, and benefit all
students. If respect and collaboration are the norm, students would feel
confident and maybe even compelled to ask questions throughout
class.
Ask students to write a question that they might have, as part of
an assignment
Pose open-ended questions that could lead to other questions

Mistakes are OK.

It is important that students not fear making mistakes. Mistakes lead to
perfect teachable moments that are often more successful than simply
sharing the correct solution. They are a critical part of learning.
Share and/or anticipate the favorite no
Have students find the mistake in a problem

Seek to understand, not memorize.

This is to steer students away from procedural understanding, and
towards conceptual understanding. The four previous norms help
cultivate a suitable environment for deep understanding, but it is not
implicit. Thus, each lesson should be planned purposefully with this in
mind.
Ask students to explain their solutions
 Implement high cognitive tasks

In order to ensure productive class time, I plan to implement a classroom management

plan that is mostly based on the principles of Love and Logic but also incorporates the
Positive Behavior Intervention System that Athens Drive High School applies.

By implementing the above classroom norms, I hope to encourage students to be

successful and discourage them from negative behaviors. In addition, I want my students
to get to know me. Students are more receptive to feedback when it comes from a
teacher they know and like (Delisio, 2008). Furthermore, I want students to take
responsibility for their actions, and their learning. The Love and Logic classroom
management plan allows students to become their own advocates, by eliciting them to
make their own choices (Delisio, 2008).

Rewards/Consequences

In order to support the various ways that students learn, students are allowed certain
freedoms such as, listening to music during class. However, any student behaviors that
detract from the positive learning environment will not be tolerated. In such
circumstances, I will follow the steps below:

1st offense: I will give a verbal warning to the student to let them know that their
behavior is distracting others.
Ex.: Emily, Im glad that you already finished the assignment but please give
everyone else a chance to finish the assignment as well.

2nd offense: If the student continues, I will speak to the student privately, and allow
them to choose the appropriate resolution within acceptable limits.
Ex.: Emily, since you keep distracting those around you, you can either go sit by
my desk or by yourself.

3rd offense: If neither consequence is successful in stopping the behavior, I will let
the student know that I will be contacting their parent(s)/guardian or following the
schools disciplinary policy, depending on the behavior.
Ex.: Emily, since your behavior has persisted, I will have to contact your parents
to discuss a more effective solution.

Procedures

Below, I outline some of the procedures that I intend on implementing. These all work in
conjunction with the classroom norms and classroom management plan mentioned above
to create a positive learning environment.
Cell Phone Use
As more and more schools adopt BYOD, it is important to consider the issues that might
arise in the classroom. In todays society, I would rather embrace it than fight it. ADHS
outlines good Device Citizenship as such:

On task and focusing on the assignment given

Visiting appropriate, relevant websites
Utilizing technological tools for the purpose they are intended (producing,
collaborating, communicating academically, etc.)
Adhering to copyright laws and academic integrity expectations
(BYOD at ADHS, n.d.).

I would adopt these guidelines as productive use of cell phones. However, I do not wish
to waste class time policing unproductive cell phone use so as long as a student is still
able to actively participate, complete their assignments, and not distract others, I would
deem their use of their cell phone as acceptable. Otherwise, I would give the student the
following choices:

1st consequence: Either put your phone down for right now, or put it away for the
rest of class.
2nd consequence: Either put your phone away for the rest of class, or give me the
phone for the rest of class.
3rd consequence: Either you give me your phone for the rest of class, or you lose
your cell phone use privileges for the rest of the week.

If this continues to be a problem, I will schedule a discussion with the student and their
parent(s) or guardian.

Start of Class
The start of class really sets the tone for the rest of class, so it is important that a
procedure be set in place to help the lesson have a smooth start. As is noted in the
syllabus, students should recognize the bell ringing as the start to the lesson.
Additionally, I will use the following actions to prepare students for the lesson:

Close the door after the bell rings

Have warm-up problem(s) on the board
Set a timer for the students to attempt the warm-up problem(s)
Go over the warm-up problem(s)
Segue into the days lesson

Tardiness
As mentioned above, the class starts after the bell rings which means that entering the
classroom after that point is considered tardy. Students coming in after the start of class
are disruptive to the teacher and the students, and waste valuable class time. It is
important to let students know that this is unacceptable behavior. I would defer to the
school policy for this matter. ADHS policy for unexcused tardies is as follows:
 1st Tardy: Warning
2nd Tardy: Warning and contact parent/guardian
3rd Tardy: Teacher assigned lunch duty
4th Tardy: After school detention
5th Tardy: 2 days of after school detention
6th Tardy: 1.5 hours of Saturday school
7th Tardy: 3 hours of Saturday school
8th or more Tardy: In-school suspension
Failure to serve lunch duty will result in after school detention.
Failure to serve after school detention will result in Saturday school.
Tardies will restart at the beginning of each quarter
(Athens Drive High School Tardy Policy).

Bathroom Breaks
Similar to tardiness, students going in and out of the classroom for bathroom breaks can
be disruptive to the teacher and the students, so I would like to minimize these especially
during instruction. The following procedure is in place to keep the disruption minimal:

No bathroom breaks during instruction, if possible

Ask for permission
Minimize disruptiveness as much as possible
Bathroom breaks are given to one student at a time
Each student must sign out to leave the classroom, and sign in upon return
The student must take the class hall pass to leave the classroom, and return it
upon return

Test Corrections
Students have the opportunity to raise a test grade, up to one letter grade, by submitting
test corrections within a week of the test. The test corrections are graded for half the
credit lost. By doing test corrections, I hope that students discover their mistakes and
learn from them. This also helps them moving forward. Students are to follow this format:

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Problem # Wrong answer, and why it is Correct answer, and why it is
wrong. correct.
Example:
#6 x = 30; I did not divide both x = 10; I simplified the
sides of the equation by 3. equation correctly, and divided
both sides by 3
*Student must submit original test with test corrections.