Brian Dang 11/14/2016

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT PLAN Brief Overview and Philosophy

I strongly believe in responsive classroom because the benefit of this approach and it best fit with my calm authorities personality. The primarily goals I want to establish in my art room are:

Establish a calm, orderly, and safe environment for learning. Help children develop self-control and self-discipline. Teach children to be responsible, contributing members of the classroom.

I believe children are not unruly as adults may think and capable of achieving orderly classroom by teaching children self-control and importance of good social interaction. What I like about responsive classroom approach is it help children live up to the expectations set for them by adults setting the example clearly through modeling and explanation. Each class period I would begin by holding an “art meeting” to preview students the agenda of today and to teach appropriate behavior when making learning and art choices.

Classroom Expectations/Principles

Respect Yourself

Respect Others

Respect Our School

Bathroom Procedure:

Brian Dang 11/14/2016Students are asked to use the bathroom before coming to Art but if it is an emergency they may only go after instructional time with a partner of the opposite sex. One pair at a time taking with them the art bathroom pass.

Classroom Jobs For Distributing/Clean Up

Supply Distributor—Responsible for distributing art materials.

Supply Collector—Responsible for returning art materials.

Artwork Collector—Responsible for storing artwork in a colored table folder label on front with teacher name and class scheduled time.

Stool Inspector—Responsible to make sure all stools or chairs are pushed under the table to clear aisle walkway.

Floor Inspector—Responsible for checking floor for cleanliness ensuring other students to pick up and throw away trash in trash can.

My Art Rules (Acronym L.E.F.T)

1. Listen carefully.2. Encourage & be kind to others. 3. Follow directions. 4. Try your best.

Rule #1 “listen carefully”. Is about respecting others because to ensure effective learning if students listen first we can all be better learners.

Rule #2 “be kind”. Is about respecting others because we all like to be treated fairly and with respect.

Rule #3 “follows directions”. Is about respecting others and your own learning to ensure not to waste learning time by following direction the first time.

Rule #4 “try your best”. Is about respecting yourself and understanding no one is perfect, therefore we make mistakes. If an art project is too frustrating “try your best” but know you’re always welcome to ask for teacher or peer help.

Rewards on Free Art Day

Brian Dang 11/14/2016To earn Free Art Day as a class students have to fill a row on the reward chart for doing a good job during each transition section of Art (Entrance, Instructional Time, Studio Time, Clean Up Time). They can earn up to 4 stars and need 24 stars to earn a Free Art Day. There are 6 table activities they can participate in.

Games Ipad art-related games:

Art Detective (is an art puzzle for kids exploring 4 art galleries exhibiting the UK’s collection of British art from 1500 and international modern art). Tate Kids section has 13 cool art games.

Jackson Pollock app allow students to spatter paint on a digital canvas in this Flash game.

Picassohead you can create figures using elements of Pablo Picasso’s painting style.

Face iMake use to create your own fruit and vegetable portraits!

Free Draw

Students can use manila paper to draw anything they like using provided crayons, markers and color pencils.

Junk Sculpture

Students can utilize leftover art materials to make their own creation from the classroom “Junk Trunk”. Students can use straws and connectors and K’Nex to build vehicles, buildings, etc.

Paper Making

Students can use the “paper box” and make their own sketchbook/journal using scrap paper into accordion style. They can also make hallmark greeting cards for birthdays, letters, etc.

Card Making

Students can use scrap and craft paper to design their own special occasion cards to give to friends, family, others for their birthday, holiday, mother’s & father’s day, etc. Tutorial on different variation on card making such as pop-up cards, and pull-tab cards.

Clay Station

Students can use modeling clay to sculpt figurine to then use Ipads to record homemade stop motion videos. Tutorial and demonstration will be given prior.

Consequences

Brian Dang 11/14/2016My stance is prevention is my main focus. Thus saying I have a hierarchy of consequences below from mild to more severe. My consequences are logical and relevant to the misbehavior.

Behind-the-Scenes Efforts of Prevention

Teacher talks with students privately outside of class time. I would pull a student after class for a brief conversation as a pep talk.

Talk with colleagues, student’s counselor, and administrators. Gather information that may be helpful in addressing the student’s behavior or emotional needs.

Talks with parents about students’ misbehavior. Reinforcement from home life to help correct behavior. Keep me updated on student progress at home and reaffirm parents of good improved behavior at school by phone or immediate response on ClassDojo.

Parent conference with principal, counselor, and other teachers without the student. Clear on communication with one another how to effective help a student without the student from claiming that one particular teacher has it out for him or her.

Reminders/Warnings

Warming—Verbally cues three strikes before removing a student from classroom.

Consequences Inside the Classroom

1st warning--Change seats

2nd warning—Time-out from class in “quiet area”

3rd—Removal of student into neighboring classroom. Let student know that his parents will be notified of behavior. Send student with classwork but also with referral slip so student is persuade to reflect on his behavior and know that the cooperating teacher may make judgment call if student acts out further if he need to be set to the office.

Documentation/Partners Use a written hard copy behavior/scoring chart for documenting daily students’

behavior for the day. The chart on the right is an example of the chart I would use to record a student behavior under the “Effort” (using a 4 point system) column, which I would share with administrators. In addition I would note any consequences implemented that day on a sticky note attach to this document with a date of when it occurred.

Brian Dang 11/14/2016

E-mail, phone call or “Class Dojo”. I ask at back-to-school-night or send a newsletter home explaining how I would like to use this phone app Class Dojo for teacher-parent communication and how parents can join. Parents may see online consistent updates of their child’s learning through student positive comments, stories, photos and videos as well a record of behavior on “Needs Work” (where students start out with 100 points and points are deducted for every time a student deserve an in-classroom consequence or reward a point for every good behavior I catch in action). I would NOT use “Needs Work” chart for scoring grades because the purpose of using this tool is to keep track of an on-going record of their child behavior per quarter. It is best for me as a teacher to use my good judgment from “Needs work” chart to find what intervention strategy effectively work best for a child who have a history of misbehaving.

Proactive ReflectionIf a whole class is not meeting my expectations, I would be mindful if I had been teaching students how to

appropriately behave well enough. I feel punishing an entire class is effective because it could alienate the good students who have been meeting or exceeding my expectation neither is being passive and hoping tomorrow will be different. My resolution is to address the cause of the problems by the following:

1) Observe misbehavior—I would simply observe the on-going misbehavior for 30 seconds so I can assess what inappropriate behavior is happening.

2) Wait—Next I would signal for my students’ attention. Wait another 30 seconds for the misbehavior to settle before speaking. This let students feel the weight of it.

3) Pause—I would make sure students are back at their seats putting materials away. The focus is to pause the normal learning activity and doing things the right way.

4) Modeling—I would go into modeling the misbehavior I observed using a student as an example of how this wasted time and disrupted learning. Next I would demonstrate how to recorrect the misbehavior by modeling the appropriate behavior with an exemplary student before allowing the whole class to practice the behavior.

5) Inspecting—Then I would watch like a hawk as they apply these rules and reinforcing good behavior by stating specific positive compliments to restore my classroom to its well-behaved state.

If there were overwhelming misbehavior toward the end of class, I would just have students clean up and end class early. Next class I will be reteaching the whole class what is expected of them through scaffolding, teacher and student modeling correct behavior and checking for students’ understanding. I will follow by stating in an upbeat hopeful attitude by stating everyone is capable of following the classroom rules. To ensure students comprehension, I would ask students to name appropriate and not appropriate behavior in the art room. If this misbehavior continues I would further cooperate with their general homeroom teacher to find a suitable disciplinary action plan to fix behavior.