The note below is based on what my host teacher used during my student teaching. Last year, I had no behavior system in place, so I am hoping that this will help me have better results in the classroom. If a student has been warned, and continues to cross the line, this note gets sent home with the student and the student and parent together come up with a plan to fix the behavior.
Behavior Note
Any comments or suggestions?
Stephanie
that looks really great, Steph.
ReplyDeletethis is such an awesome idea! I think it will work really well...especially if the parents are involved with helping the student come up with a plan for how to act in class...
ReplyDeleteHey Steph!
ReplyDeleteI think this looks great, too! Especially because it has the students owning up to what they've done. The only thing I would say is that it might be worth it for you to talk to the student about which behavior(s) he/she was doing so it's coming from them. That way you avoid the "Ms. Klementson said I did it, but I didn't!" situation, and you can make sure they are actually able to identify what they were doing that was disruptive. If they don't realize what "disrupting others" etc. looks like/sounds like/feels like, they aren't going to be able to change the behavior.
Along these lines I have a funny story from the art teacher at my school who implements the same procedure for poor behavior (she calls them "fix it" slips).
A 3rd grade boy was going around the art room loudly saying "poopy penis butt" over and over and over and over again (thinking this was the funniest thing ever, of course. Sad thing is, if I heard a student saying it, I probably would have agreed... but for different reasons). She stopped him, asked him if he realized what he was saying was inappropriate, and then handed him a fix it slip. She said "I want you to be sure you write down exactly what you were saying so that your parents can hear it from you." He brought back the slip signed the next class, but he had written "I said naughty bathroom words." She said "Oh, no. You didn't say 'naughty bathroom words.' You said something else. You need to fill out another one with the naughty bathroom words that you said and bring THAT one back." When he looked mortified and did it she said "See? It's pretty embarrassing to write it down and read it, isn't it? Think of how embarrassing it was for people to have to hear you saying it."
Needless to say, problem solved. Never happened again!
Thanks guys, this was really helpful. And yes, I will touch base with all student who receive these slips, so that we both have the same understanding about what happened.
ReplyDeleteI also have a note similar to this for POSITIVE behavior. I think I am going to set a quota per month, to really make sure I am focusing on the good behaviors too!