Behavior expectations

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I still remember my first teaching position. I took over a fifth grade class at the end of April. April 26th, 2005 to be exact. To say it was a challenge would be a giant understatement. I'm going to be honest, the first day, I just focused on breathing. I was completely overwhelmed and really had no idea how I was going to add structure to a class who had clearly gone without structure for the majority of their year. After a very chaotic first few days in which I felt quite defeated and had…

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When students are not following behavior expectations, Fix-It Tickets are a great way for students to self-reflect on their behavior. These student behavior reflection sheets are an awesome classroom management tool to privately manage different classroom behaviors. These fix-it tickets are not to be used in place of building strong teacher student relationships; rather, they are used to enhance them. They give student ownership of behaviors. These behavior sheets can be sent home too!

This is a poster that can be used in your Kindergarten classroom to talk about rules and expectations from the 1st day of school to the last. You can copy it and give it to parents to have them help reinforce your classroom rules. Or you can enlarge it to display in your classroom.

Teaching self control to kids can often times become a tricky topic. When a child hears, “Use self control”, do they even know what that means? So often we expect kids to know exactly what we mean or how to behave, but we fall short in our teaching and explanation. We cannot expect a child […]

As teachers, we all face different behavior challenges in the classroom. These challenges can change day to day or even year to year, but dealing with student behavior is something that no teacher can escape. We can however, use all the tools in our tool box to proactive instead of reactive. I have found over […]

PBIS gets such a bad rap. But I really think I know the reason why. So often, adults jump to offering rewards for behaviors we want to see and skipping the entire part of TEACHING the behaviors we want to see. Learning behavior is so similar to learning academic skills. We would never expect a student to be able to do long division without teaching them how to do it first. Behavior is the same. Teach them exactly what you want them to do. Don’t expect they know how to behave. I do. ...