McKayla Jacobs

Classroom Management Plan

EDU 344
(Primary Grades)

Rules:
 Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect your school.
 Raise your hand to speak.
 Be safe. Be honest.
 Follow directions quickly and quietly.
Rewards:
 Students will receive stickers for their take-home folder with good behavior.
 Students will have the opportunity to play non-academic games at the end of the day with
good behavior.
Consequences:
 Five minutes taken away from play time/recess for wrong behavior.
 Student will be given a reflection sheet to take a break from their misbehavior.
Classroom-wide rewards:
 The class as a whole will work towards filling a “jar” with ten marbles to earn an ice
cream party.
 The class as a whole will be rewarded an extra five minutes of recess when all students
are working quietly when asked.

Quieting a Class:
 “Hocus Pocus!” “Everybody Focus”
 “1,2,3 eyes on me” “1,2 eyes on you”
 “Chicka, Chicka” “Boom, Boom”
Students asking for help:
 Students must raise their hand and sit quietly in order to ask a question.
 If the teacher is busy/unavailable, ask another adult in the room.
Students passing in papers:
 Homework papers will be collected by the students placing their paper in a file “mailbox”
with their name on it in the morning.
 Have each table place all of their papers in the middle of the table for the teacher to
collect.
Transitions:
 Call one table of students at a time to limit the amount of moving around. Teacher would
only call the tables that are sitting quietly.
 Line up from tallest to shortest (or other attributes).
Begin the Day:
 “Open, shut them. Open, shut them. Give a little clap, clap, clap. Open, shut them. Open,
shut them. Put them in your lap.”
 Calendar- Go over the full date (ex. Thursday February 11, 2021)
End the Day:
 Students are called by each table to go out and grab their belongings to go home.
  Sit quietly or draw until you are called to go home.

As a future educator, I do not see myself using a classroom clip chart. Clip charts are
demeaning to many students, whether they have good or bad behavior. To me, behaviors are seen
as a personal aspect of an individual. Showing personal grades are frowned upon, but showing
behavior is not? I have seen some classrooms use individual clip charts that are more private to
individual students, but I still feel there are better ways to monitor behavior. In the case of using
individual charts, the students will notice if/when you move the clip on a classmate desk and
also, if another student walks passed another desk, they will be able to see the chart on the desk.
If mandated by my school district to use a behavior chart, I would likely choose the individual
clip charts over the classroom displayed, but I would probably not use them, if I would, it would
be seldom.
On the continuum of teacher and student control, I land somewhere between the Teacher
being in charge and both the teacher and student are in charge. There are definitely times in the
classroom when a teacher needs to solely be in charge, however I feel that in order to be
relational with students, they need to have a say about their education. I am not saying students
can just opt-out of homework whenever they like, but they should be given choices like “do you
want to work in groups or individual for this assignment”. I also feel it is important for the
teacher and students to create classroom rules together, so they are better enforced. When a
student/young child feels involved in something, they are more likely to want to fulfill their side
of the bargain.
Classroom management is a huge diversity in the world today on how a class should be
run, but I feel that it should be up to the teacher and the students. Every year, the teacher is going
to have a new set of students, which means they need different rules for their styles. I understand
knowing the basic rules such as “keeping hands to yourself”, “be respectful”, and others, but not
all students are the same. All children are created in the image of God with capacity for language
(Genesis 1:27). As mentioned above, it is important to be relational with your students. Children
learn best in a low-risk, language-rich environment that is collaborative and socially interactive.
Jesus describes his church as a body, interacting with each other and meeting each other’s needs.