Classroom Procedures
Classroom procedures are different than rules. They make up the nuts and bolts of how things get done with a group. They are the fundamental bits and pieces of classroom management. Taken as a whole, they constitute the cultural norms for classroom life. Each classroom, each school, each community, has commonalities and differences in the norms for schooling.
This page is a place where I hope to record, for the sake of simple documentation, the classroom procedures that I find myself teaching my students. This is particularly prominent for me in the beginning of the year. I expect that new procedures will come along to replace old ones, and that some will work better than others. Maybe writing them down will help me to refine the management of my classroom.
Today:
- handing in math homework
- getting my attention when a parent is speaking with me
- moving furniture around the room
- managing paper during math
- managing things in the desk
- what is/is not a proper bookmark (pencils=no; scrap of paper=yes)
- partner work/lapboards
- attendance procedure
- WRITING PROCESS: freewriting, keyboarding, downloading to server, edit/revise, publish
- the bathroom pass: using and respecting it
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