Entry 7

• What are the school rules/classroom rules and how are they enforced?
• What are the procedures the teacher uses to make everything run smoothly in the class?

At Dan Peterson we only have four rules. They are Stay with the group, quiet mouth and body, follow directions, and give people space. Everyday for morning meeting we go over the rules with the class. Throughout the day, if a student is not following the rules, we remind them of what they are supposed to be doing. If they do not submit to following the rules we then will give them a strike. Every time a student received a strike they would be moved to a different stoplight color. One strike, the student would get on yellow which was a warning for them to slowdown and think of what they were doing. Two strikes resulted in the student being moved to red which meant the student had to stop what they were doing immediately and do some work sheets, on strike three the student would be moved to black. This meant that the student would have to go to a seat away from the class and practice being quite for five minutes. After five minutes of being quiet the student would go back to their seat and complete some work sheets. 

     This method was good for some of the students but others did not understand what the colors meant, but for the most part it did its job and was effective. The students really understood the rules though. They could say them all and do actions to remember them. 

   In the other class I worked in, the teacher would have the students write their names on the board every time they misbehaved. If they continued to act out they would get a check next to their names. If they got another check then they would have to make a call (I do not know to who) and admit that they were not following directions. This class was really well behaved. Therefor it must be a good method.