Classroom Expectations Matrix by Sae Hee Chung

Do Your Entering Completing Small Group Carpet Time Reading

Class Assignments Activities Activities Time
Be patient. • Wait for your turn to • Stay focused until you • Listen to your group • Raise your hand if you • Be on a task.
enter. finish your work. members actively. have any questions. • Use soft voice to ask to

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• Keep your hands to • Stay positive. • Treat everyone as an • Wait until a teacher your friends or
yourself. • Ask for help if needed. equal. calls your name. teacher.
• Start your morning • Earn trust through • Listen to a teacher’s • Have self-motivation.
work. your behaviors. direction carefully.

Eye your • Greet your friends and • Listen to a teacher • Be thoughtful and • Keep your hands, feet, • Listen to a teacher’s
a teacher. carefully. kind. and objects to instruction.
speaker.
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• Watch out around you. • Eye on your work. • Keep hands to yourself. • Clearly know the
• Mind your manners. • Follow directions. yourself. • Recognize that directions.
• Cheer on others and everyone is different. • Refrain from talking.
their success. • Have listening ears and
thinking minds.

Show your • Respect personal space • Be thoughtful. • Use polite words. • Know when to support • Clean up after yourself.
to enter. • Clean up after yourself. • Say please and thank each other. • Sit by yourself
respect to • Walk in class slowly. • Take care of our you. • Be sure that one somewhere.

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• Speak kindly. materials. • Invite and include all person talks at a time. • Leave your seat only
others and
your group members • Raise your hand to when given
yourself. to participate. speak. permission.

Try to do • Arrive on time. • Take time to do it • Work together to finish • Cooperate with a • Read a book quietly.
• Be safe. right. group work. teacher and your • Fine something new.
your best.
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• Be ready to prepare to • Complete your • Help each other. classmates. • Keep reading to finish
learn. assignment. • Participate in a group • Exchange ideas. a book.
• Redo if necessary. work actively. • Make connections with
your thoughts.