Applying Classroom Rules and Procedures
1.When and how you will give positive reinforcement to students who are following the rules and procedures
In my Class, The rules are discussed by the whole class, everyone contribute their ideals and agree with the rules. I will have a form of everyone to record behavior of everyone.The form will post in front of class.So when the students following the rules and procedures, I will give some star sticks to reinforcement. Three star will have a candy, if the students don't want to get the candy, they can save the star. when the star is ten, they can have a gift or when they did the project, the following instruction students could have the privacy to choose a topic or have the chance to be a group leader. I did this because the privacy and leader is what the students earned. The rules will contain IB Attitudes. Using the IB attitudes to monitor students behavior is really works perfect.
If you want success, you have to earn it.
Make it Public: Because the purpose when I give the stars to students is inspire their good attitude and behavior. Make it public will make the students know the rules and will have more and more improve and sure a good behavior.
Make it Strict: As a teacher, don’t broke the rules. Once the rules are broken, Nobody will listen to you. If you feels the rules have to be changed, you can told the students leave one or two lines to add new rules when necessary.
Make it immediate: When students have a good behavior, Give the star and gift or something else private immediate. Don’t leave them until tomorrow, you will forgot it. Even you did not forgot, the positive purpose will low down if you give them another day.
While it is difficult for most people to understand, positive reinforcement increases the behavior that is occurring when one gets it.
Example: I have some students who have interest to learn Chinese but they feels too hard in character writing. So I used different activities to encourage them, because activities are funny, like using clay to make a character or the cutting the characters using papers and scissors. Because the activities are interesting and students enjoy it. I will give the double stars for encouragement.
Position Flowchart:
2.when and how you will respond when students are breaking the rules or not following procedures
Here are three types to consider:
- You break it, you fix it can be used to mend emotional messes as well as physical messes. A child can rebuild a block tower after accidentally knocking it over. A student can repair hurt feelings with an apology of action. An apology of action may be doing something to soothe the injury, such as drawing a picture or playing a game.
- Temporary loss of privilege is a simple way to help a student remember to use that privilege (art materials, recess, group time) responsibly. Losing a privilege for a class period or a day can help a child pause to remember or relearn a rule.
- Time-out or "take a break" is a strategy to help students learn self-control. A student who is disrupting the work of the group is asked to leave for a few minutes. Give the student a chance to regain composure and rejoin the group on his or her own.
Example:
I had a student who transfer from another class because the unbehavior. When he come to my class, We discussed new rules based on the new students’ behavior. First is You break it, you fix it . The student always throw his backpack into the ground and bottle to the trash bin. Because the rules in class is posted in front of class, So when he damage the trash can, or kick the trash can make the staff come out, he have to fix all by himself and will lose three stars. If he did this on purposed for three times, I will call parents. So, the students changed his behavior when he did few times in class and notice that all other students have the Chinese gift and he have not.
In the negative flowchart, my purpose is help students have good behavior, So once they sure me that they want to change to a good behavior, I will offset one time “time out”. Please see below:
Flowchart of negative behavior
Reference:
1. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/what-do-when-kids-break-rules/
2. http://www.gordontraining.com/leadership/what-to-do-when-rules-are-broken/
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