Do you do this? Do you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about classroom procedures, and then looking up procedures in "The First Days of School?" by Harry Wong? Then you must be a first year teacher! Congratulations! If you are a veteran teacher reading this I beg you for your insight! Welcome to my blog!
I am a new hire to the school district! The contract is signed! This is also my second career (maybe third, if you count staying home with my kids)! Anyway, I am very excited and today marks the beginning of my journey because I saw my new "home away from home" through a tiny window...it is actually going to happen.... PANIC!
So today I started writing out all of my classroom procedures. My favorite is my classroom management procedure that I am "borrowing" from a long term sub position I had (also in third grade) and it was magical!!!
Make one of those clip charts you see on Pinterest. OK, so you are thinking "what is the big deal, seen it!" Here is the kicker... kids cannot clip down (only see the positive), and if a student gets to the very top, they get a jewel sticker on the clothes pin. Yes a jewel sticker on the clothes pin! Once a student earns 5 jewel stickers, the student gets a silver clothes pin and gets to pick a coupon from the coupon box (I will get to that later). The student continues with the silver clothes pin, and then advances to the gold clothes pin! What I love about this is the kids can see their own progress, the love the stickers, and they do not clip down. Also, as a mom, I get tired of all of the mini toys, and candy my kids earn. This also teaches some delayed gratification.
Students clip up for following directions quickly, helping a friend in need, and helping to keep our classroom running smoothly!
Supplies: packs of wooden clothes pins ($1 at the dollar store), silver and gold spray paint, jewel stickers (Joanne's coupon 50% off). The clip chart and the coupons I print myself! Not a lot of money but a lot of pay off!
Coupons: Sit at the teacher's desk for half a day, bring something special to share with the class, take your shoes off in the classroom, read out loud to the class, jump to any place in the line for the day, use the teacher's silly pens etc.
I am excited about this procedure because I have used it and I have seen it in action! I also cannot afford to buy awards!
Pictures will be coming soon!
Well, at least I have that procedure figured out... what classroom procedures to you like to use?
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