Behavior Management Plan
Mrs. Cecil and Mrs. Thomas’s Classroom Management Plan
We use Conscious Discipline in our classroom. Conscious Discipline teaches children the skills needed to feel safe and comfortable in their environment. It helps them to discuss conflicts with others and minimize unwanted behaviors. Conscious Discipline gives students the tools to stay calm while working through any problem or situation that arises.
Learning Behavior Clip Chart:
When an unwanted behavior becomes a disruption to the learning environment, students will be asked to move their clip to yellow (Think About It) on our clip chart. When this happens, it is a learning opportunity for the student to stop and recognize the behavior that is not allowed in our classroom and think about it! After the student shows they are ready to make a better choice, they will be allowed to move their clip back to green to indicate they are Ready to Learn again.
When a student acts as a role model for his/her peers or is caught making a good choice, they will be asked to move their clip up to blue on our clip chart.
All students start their day on green (Ready to Learn) and it should be their goal to stay on green throughout the day. Here is a description of what our clip chart looks like:
Each night students are expected to discuss their day’s behavior with their parents. Your support at home is greatly appreciated as this is a team effort! Remember that if a child ends their day on green, that means they did exactly what I expected them to do! We rarely clip up or down, as we want everyone to always be doing what is expected. This management system is designed to be a learning tool and not a form of reward or punishment.
Positive Encouragement:
Positive behavior choices are not only recognized in the classroom by allowing students to move their clip up. They are also rewarded with verbal praise, high fives, special privileges in the classroom, Leaping Leopard Awards, and/or a positive note home. Positive reinforcement will go a long way! Please be sure to encourage your child to make positive choices at school.
We use Conscious Discipline in our classroom. Conscious Discipline teaches children the skills needed to feel safe and comfortable in their environment. It helps them to discuss conflicts with others and minimize unwanted behaviors. Conscious Discipline gives students the tools to stay calm while working through any problem or situation that arises.
Learning Behavior Clip Chart:
When an unwanted behavior becomes a disruption to the learning environment, students will be asked to move their clip to yellow (Think About It) on our clip chart. When this happens, it is a learning opportunity for the student to stop and recognize the behavior that is not allowed in our classroom and think about it! After the student shows they are ready to make a better choice, they will be allowed to move their clip back to green to indicate they are Ready to Learn again.
When a student acts as a role model for his/her peers or is caught making a good choice, they will be asked to move their clip up to blue on our clip chart.
All students start their day on green (Ready to Learn) and it should be their goal to stay on green throughout the day. Here is a description of what our clip chart looks like:
- Blue: Good Day
- This means your child made great choices and his/her behavior choices impressed me today. They went above and beyond what was expected of them at school and consistently acted like a role model for their classmates.
- Green: Ready to Learn
- This is where we start our school day. If your child ends the day on green, then they did exactly as they were expected to do at school today.
- Yellow: Think About It
- At some point in the school day, your child made some poor choices regarding their behavior. For example: talking while the teacher was talking, being disrespectful, not following directions, etc. I do always give the students behavior warnings, so if they end the day on yellow please know that means that they were given plenty of opportunity to self-correct their behavior but did not do so.
Each night students are expected to discuss their day’s behavior with their parents. Your support at home is greatly appreciated as this is a team effort! Remember that if a child ends their day on green, that means they did exactly what I expected them to do! We rarely clip up or down, as we want everyone to always be doing what is expected. This management system is designed to be a learning tool and not a form of reward or punishment.
Positive Encouragement:
Positive behavior choices are not only recognized in the classroom by allowing students to move their clip up. They are also rewarded with verbal praise, high fives, special privileges in the classroom, Leaping Leopard Awards, and/or a positive note home. Positive reinforcement will go a long way! Please be sure to encourage your child to make positive choices at school.