Discipline Techniques
Pre-School:
Have a time-out area or chair. This is an old, but effective technique. It allows young children to calm down, especially after a temper tantrum. The time-out gives the child time to reflect on how and why they were behaving poorly. Always remember to get at the child’s eye level when talking to them.
Kindergarten:
Have a job and line order chart. This chart will have sneakers that are in order from 1st to how many students you have in your class, which will represent the line order. The red squares have jobs such as line leader, door holder, etc. The yellow squares have a child’s picture and name. Keeping the line order the same, change the jobs and line leader every week. It allows each child to try out every job, and it makes it easy for the kids to remember where they stand.
1st-2nd Grade:
Have a Behavior Clip Chart. Every day all the students will start on “Ready to Learn.” Students can move up the chart to “good day” then “great job” then “outstanding” for good behavior. Students will move down the chart to “think about it” then “oh no stop” then “teacher’s choice”. All teachers have to say to a student is move your clip up or down and the student will know what they were doing right or wrong without hardly any discussion.
3rd-4th Grade:
Use a technique called Monthly Behavior Themes. Each month the teacher chooses a new theme, the students choose their prize and together they set a goal. Each month would have a theme that goes along with it. You must be careful with monthly themes because they cannot have any religious connections (so instead of doing Christmas, do winter or snowman theme). For example, in April you could have an umbrella for each group (table). Students will earn raindrops to add to their umbrella. A raindrop can be earned by the group when good behavior is exhibited. Every ten raindrops earn the team a flower. Each must earn at least 3 flowers by the end of the month to participate in the reward. This encourages group/class cooperation and students to waste less time during transitional periods.
5th Grade:
Use behavior bucks with the three strikes you are out method. Make a baseball diamond out of cardboard. On the diamond write the rules: Strike one a warning. Strike two loose a behavior buck. Strike three loose two behavior bucks and note is sent home. If the student stays at home plate by displaying good behavior or they get one strike, they can earn one behavior buck for that day. At the end of the month, the students can turn in their behavior bucks for a reward.
Five Minute Fillers (to be used when there is extra time in my classroom)
Five minute filler for pre-school
This activity is called “Telephone”. Have the children stand in a circle. Have one child be the starter, who whispers a short rhyming sentence to the right. For example, “The cat sat in a hat.” The message continues around the circle, until it’s back at the starter. This child then shares the original rhyme and the new rhyme.
Five minute filler for kindergarten
This activity is called “I am Going Camping”. The teacher picks a beginning letter sound that all the students must use in the statement “I am going camping…..” For example, if the teacher says, “I am going camping, and I am bringing a map.” Then all the students must use the “m” sound for what they are bringing camping.
Five minute filler for 1st grade
This activity is called, “Head, Waist, and Toes.” Have the students stand up and listen to the teacher say a three-phoneme word. The teacher says each phoneme of the word separately. Ask the children to place their hands on their heads, waists, or toes to indicate whether the sound is at the beginning middle or end of the word. Use other three-phoneme words. For variation, say phoneme faster as the game progresses.
Five minute filler for 2nd grade
This activity is called “Compliments”. Each student is asked to say something nice about the person or two persons on their right, on their left, or behind them, whichever works best for the class. This activity is good because everybody likes it when someone says something good about us. And you have to make the rule that everyone must say something about their assignment person. As a teacher, it’s good to start the game so that you can model the compliments for the rest of the class.
Five minute filler 3rd grade
This activity is called “Word Up”. The teacher writes a long word on the board. Tell the students they have 3 minutes to write down as many small words as they can find in that long word. See who can find the most words in the class.
Five minute filler 4th grade
This activity is called “Story Ball”. Students are to create a story in five minutes. The teacher provides the opening sentence of the story. Then they will toss a beach ball to a student. That student must say the next sentence for the story. Then the student tosses the ball to a classmate and this continues until time is up.
Five minute filler for 5th grade
The activity is called “Hot Seat”. It is very similar to twenty questions. Randomly select a student to come up to the front of the class (draw a name or maybe use the superstar of the week). Have them stand with their back facing the whiteboard. Then choose another student to come up and write a word on the board behind them. Limit the word to a vocabulary word or something you are teaching. The goal of the game is for the student to ask his or her classmate questions in order to guess the word.
My Future Classroom
The link below is a drawing of what I would like my future classroom to look like. I created it keeping in mind that I want an open classroom where the children have room to collaborate and move around. The students will sit in tables when doing table work, so they can help each other. There will also be a carpet area to do whole group activities. There will be different centers throughout the room dedicated to different activities. For example, there will be a computer and listening areas as well as a reading center with a classroom library. I will also incorporate technology into my classroom to engage students in learning. I will have a SmartBoard and a couple of computers for the students. The link below is the drawing of what I want my future classroom to look like.
Pre-School:
Have a time-out area or chair. This is an old, but effective technique. It allows young children to calm down, especially after a temper tantrum. The time-out gives the child time to reflect on how and why they were behaving poorly. Always remember to get at the child’s eye level when talking to them.
Kindergarten:
Have a job and line order chart. This chart will have sneakers that are in order from 1st to how many students you have in your class, which will represent the line order. The red squares have jobs such as line leader, door holder, etc. The yellow squares have a child’s picture and name. Keeping the line order the same, change the jobs and line leader every week. It allows each child to try out every job, and it makes it easy for the kids to remember where they stand.
1st-2nd Grade:
Have a Behavior Clip Chart. Every day all the students will start on “Ready to Learn.” Students can move up the chart to “good day” then “great job” then “outstanding” for good behavior. Students will move down the chart to “think about it” then “oh no stop” then “teacher’s choice”. All teachers have to say to a student is move your clip up or down and the student will know what they were doing right or wrong without hardly any discussion.
3rd-4th Grade:
Use a technique called Monthly Behavior Themes. Each month the teacher chooses a new theme, the students choose their prize and together they set a goal. Each month would have a theme that goes along with it. You must be careful with monthly themes because they cannot have any religious connections (so instead of doing Christmas, do winter or snowman theme). For example, in April you could have an umbrella for each group (table). Students will earn raindrops to add to their umbrella. A raindrop can be earned by the group when good behavior is exhibited. Every ten raindrops earn the team a flower. Each must earn at least 3 flowers by the end of the month to participate in the reward. This encourages group/class cooperation and students to waste less time during transitional periods.
5th Grade:
Use behavior bucks with the three strikes you are out method. Make a baseball diamond out of cardboard. On the diamond write the rules: Strike one a warning. Strike two loose a behavior buck. Strike three loose two behavior bucks and note is sent home. If the student stays at home plate by displaying good behavior or they get one strike, they can earn one behavior buck for that day. At the end of the month, the students can turn in their behavior bucks for a reward.
Five Minute Fillers (to be used when there is extra time in my classroom)
Five minute filler for pre-school
This activity is called “Telephone”. Have the children stand in a circle. Have one child be the starter, who whispers a short rhyming sentence to the right. For example, “The cat sat in a hat.” The message continues around the circle, until it’s back at the starter. This child then shares the original rhyme and the new rhyme.
Five minute filler for kindergarten
This activity is called “I am Going Camping”. The teacher picks a beginning letter sound that all the students must use in the statement “I am going camping…..” For example, if the teacher says, “I am going camping, and I am bringing a map.” Then all the students must use the “m” sound for what they are bringing camping.
Five minute filler for 1st grade
This activity is called, “Head, Waist, and Toes.” Have the students stand up and listen to the teacher say a three-phoneme word. The teacher says each phoneme of the word separately. Ask the children to place their hands on their heads, waists, or toes to indicate whether the sound is at the beginning middle or end of the word. Use other three-phoneme words. For variation, say phoneme faster as the game progresses.
Five minute filler for 2nd grade
This activity is called “Compliments”. Each student is asked to say something nice about the person or two persons on their right, on their left, or behind them, whichever works best for the class. This activity is good because everybody likes it when someone says something good about us. And you have to make the rule that everyone must say something about their assignment person. As a teacher, it’s good to start the game so that you can model the compliments for the rest of the class.
Five minute filler 3rd grade
This activity is called “Word Up”. The teacher writes a long word on the board. Tell the students they have 3 minutes to write down as many small words as they can find in that long word. See who can find the most words in the class.
Five minute filler 4th grade
This activity is called “Story Ball”. Students are to create a story in five minutes. The teacher provides the opening sentence of the story. Then they will toss a beach ball to a student. That student must say the next sentence for the story. Then the student tosses the ball to a classmate and this continues until time is up.
Five minute filler for 5th grade
The activity is called “Hot Seat”. It is very similar to twenty questions. Randomly select a student to come up to the front of the class (draw a name or maybe use the superstar of the week). Have them stand with their back facing the whiteboard. Then choose another student to come up and write a word on the board behind them. Limit the word to a vocabulary word or something you are teaching. The goal of the game is for the student to ask his or her classmate questions in order to guess the word.
My Future Classroom
The link below is a drawing of what I would like my future classroom to look like. I created it keeping in mind that I want an open classroom where the children have room to collaborate and move around. The students will sit in tables when doing table work, so they can help each other. There will also be a carpet area to do whole group activities. There will be different centers throughout the room dedicated to different activities. For example, there will be a computer and listening areas as well as a reading center with a classroom library. I will also incorporate technology into my classroom to engage students in learning. I will have a SmartBoard and a couple of computers for the students. The link below is the drawing of what I want my future classroom to look like.
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