My Classroom Management Plan

In my classroom, I would have classroom rules, procedures, and routines set up so that my classroom

flows smoothly the entire year. The classroom rules, procedures, and routines will be set up at the beginning of

the year and will be practiced the first week of school. I will be including on here parts of the plan that I

included in the classroom management plan that I created.

I want to have easy to follow classroom rules. For that reason, I have limited to only having 4 classroom

rules that are more like a category that each action falls under. Those 4 rules are Responsible, Respectful,

Honest, and Safe. In my opinion, I think the more rules you have in the classroom the less the student will

remember. For that reason, I think that keeping it to no more than 5 rules would be just right.

Being in a fourth-grade classroom, I have learned that students need to be shown how to do everything.

In my classroom, the procedures and routines that I will have my students practicing will be:

Lining up
o Students are to be seating in their seats quietly to get called to line up.
o Once they line up, they must push in their chairs.
o Students must be facing the front
o Bubbled lips
o arms at their sides
o eyeballs to the front.
o Last person in line shuts the lights off

Asking a question
o If you have a question or concern
o Before you ask the teacher, you must ask a friend to help
o If its an emergency go straight to the teacher
o If peers are not able to answer your question
o Go to the teacher for help

End-of-day routine
o Clear off your desk
o Pack your backpack
Make sure you have:
Planner
Books to read
Homework
o Throw away any trash
o Stack you chair on top of your desk
o Wait by your desk quietly until you are called to line up
 Saying the Pledge of Allegiance
o When the bell rings stop what youre doing
o Stand up
o Push in your chair
o Turn your body to face the American Flag in the room
o You place your right hand over your heart
o You place your left arm at your side
o You respectfully recite the Pledge.
o Once its over you sit back down and continue working on what you what you were doing.

Using the bathroom

o Students are afforded the opportunity to use the bathroom before school, after breakfast, after
lunch, after recess.
o If student needs to use the bathroom they will raise their pointer finger signaling the teacher,
o During whole group instruction, bathroom usage is limited.
Emergencies occur
o After signaling the teacher, wait for a yes or no head nod.
o While in the hall way, hallway behaviors are still expected.

Hallway behavior
o After leaving the room students are expected to be in a straight, single file line
o They must be an arm length away from peer in front of them
o They must have
Bubbled lips
arms at their sides
eyeballs to the front
o We will stop at checkpoints such as
Corner of the hallway
Water fountain
Ramp

Class call-back
o I will say class, class
o Students are expected to stop what they are doing
o Students must answer yes, yes
o Students must give the teacher eye contact and full attention until dismissed.
o If students are not able to stop and do the call back we will try again until everyone is answering
back
o The time that it takes us to respond students will lap one lap for every time we have to get
everyone on board.

Here are a few of the procedures and routines that I will have my students practice in my classroom.

I believe that there are more routines that will be created as we spend more time in the classroom. I

know that it is important to create a routine of how to look for books and make sure that it is a book of

our interest. There might be a routine or procedure of how seating at the safe seat should look. The

more time I spend in my fourth-grade classroom, the more routines or procedures I come up with.
 I have created an introduction letter to the parents where I introduce myself and let them know a

little bit about myself. In the letter, I also have my homework policy and my behavior policy. I included

both homework and behavior policy, because I think its important for the parents to know what the

expectations for both are.

I liked the idea and project of creating a binder that included what I would like my classroom

management to look like. I liked having to create a seating arrangement ready to go and if I had to

modify it, it wouldnt be a hassle. In this classroom management binder, I included the following:

Back to School letter to the parents

Welcome letter to my future students
An August edition of my Newsletter
Sample Grade Card comments
Rules and Guidelines for the classroom
Consequences
Procedures that I would need to cover
Policies that have to be implemented schoolwide
Classroom Design (pictured down below)

My classroom design was created with the thought in mind that students should work in collaborative

groups with their peers. I would like to provide my students with an area where they can relax and book in their
hands. I would also like to have a board just for the students to show off and display their art projects. One of

my boards will contain my content objectives along with my language objectives.

Hello Parents!
Welcome to Fairview Elementary School! My name is Denise Torres or Ms. Torres to your
students. I am thrilled to have your student in my classroom this school year! We will have a
fun-tastic time learning and growing together in fourth grade.
I would like to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about me. I am currently a senior at
Pittsburg State University and will graduate in December with my Bachelors Degree in
Elementary Education and with my Bachelors Degree in Spanish.

Im originally from Hutchinson, Kansas, its about four hours west of Carthage. I moved to
Pittsburg five years ago to attend to Pittsburg State University. I am bilingual. Spanish is
my native language, if you would like to communicate in Spanish with me I will be delighted.

When I am not at school, I am at SRMH in Riverton, where I work with kids. On the weekends,
you may see me at the movies. I love watching new movies, specially comedies. I also like to
visit the library, to check out new books to read in class.

Im looking forward to meeting you and your student. I have attached our first classroom
newsletter with upcoming dates.

Sincerely,

Ms. Torres

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me by

e-mail or phone (preferred). I also welcome appointments to
meet in person.
School phone number (417-512-1111)
dtorres@gus.pittstate.edu
 Classroom Management Panel Reflection

The panel of teachers and administrators that came into our classroom gave great ideas

and told about their experiences throughout their teaching career. I found it pretty cool that one

of the teachers or I should say administrators was from my district. I found this cool because

when he mentioned that his school or district used BIST and how it has helped.

The teacher panel mentioned two names that I have heard from previous teachers;

Keagan and Jim Fey. I was super stoked when I heard them. I have the Kaegan book that

contains resources and ideas to use in the classroom. Jim Fey with his book Love and Logic.

I enjoyed listening to the teachers as they talked about their philosophy of education. One

that really stuck with me was the goal is to push them so that when they grow up they have the

tools, and making them away of them, life rules. Another thing that I liked, is that they shared

how they run their classroom with rewards and consequences, which I think is very important

when it comes to the classroom. I like the idea of starting the day with 4 tickets, but then I

realized that it will depend on the grade level because 1st grade will be hard to keep track of the

tickets. Also, I liked how Mr. Shallenburger said that when a student gets in trouble and you

have to call home to let the parents know that you dont need anything from them, but let them

know what we will be working on. I liked that he mentioned that parents are not the problem,

they are the solution.

Another topic that I found intriguing was the types of records that a teacher keeps in her

classroom. Being a new teacher I would think that I would be documenting and hoarding

everything, but Im wrong. From what I picked up from the panel, the one thing that these

teachers keep a record of are how many times do they send the student to the safe seat and buddy

room. If there is a pattern of behavior they keep documentation. The most obvious record that
these teachers keep is a classroom roster and gradebook. Something that caught my attention was

when one of the teachers mentioned that she tried to keep a close relationship with her students

and their families. I supposed that is to get a better idea of their home life and be more involved

in the students life.

When we got talking about the procedures in the different classrooms, it was fun learning

about each of their policies. I agreed when Hannah Anderson said that she doesnt send

homework home because you never know who is doing it. Homework and transition times are

hard for students and they must be practiced within the first days of school. otherwise the

students will be off task and getting them to be on task will become harder.

One advice that I liked and will take away from is to always be prepared and organized.

Keeping a flow to your day will make transitions go smoothly with no dead time. I also like the

advice that we received; a classroom that is organize is well managed.

I was able to pick up numerous things that I want to incorporate into my classroom, from

listening to the panel of teachers tell about their experiences good and bad, and how they run

their classroom. One of them being the seating arrangement that two of the teachers said that

they have which is the clusters of desk of 4, and 1 of the students being the leader. I would give

each student a job, 1 the leader, 1 the recorder, 1 speaker, 1 and observer. By assigning jobs or

duties will help reduce downtime and cut down on the transition time. I would like to think about

flexible seating but before I even try it, but first I think I should have a good handle on classroom

management. I like the idea of grouping the students with other students that may have scored

less than or higher than them in either reading or math. For example, I like that my number 1

student is working with the student who scored the 3rd best score and my 2nd student who scored

the best will be working with my 4th student who got the lowest.
 My Reflection

After being in the fourth-grade classroom this semester, I have been able to experience

and be a part of how my teacher runs her classroom. There were several things that I liked or I

agree with, but there are also things that I would do differently. One thing I would do different

would have to be the seating arrangement. We have two clusters of desks made up of 10-12

desks. For my teacher, it works because she likes to assign jobs and change them weekly. I

would change this by breaking the clusters into groups of 4, we have 17 students so that would

mean that we would have four groups of four and one group would have to have a fifth person.

One tip that my teacher has stressed from day one is the use of BIST, which is a school wide

discipline plan. I like using BIST because if a student gets sent to the safe seat it they know they

are not in trouble but they are there because he/she had a gateway behavior that is not allowed in

the classroom.

Looking back to my classroom management folder that I made, I know that having the

procedures and rules set up during the first days of school is important. On the first day of school

this year, we introduced the rules, which the rules are established school wide so if the students

were here last year they knew the expectations. It is important that procedures are established in

the first week, and to model it for the students. Writing out step by step of the procedure is

imperative for the students. One thing that I have picked up so far is that teaching by modeling is

important because the students see the correct way of doing a task.