Student Contributor: K. Hylton
Creating classroom procedures together between the students and teacher is a helpful tool to implement in the classroom. It allows for students to share their voice of what they think should happen in the classroom and for the teacher to guide these procedures in a way they think is appropriate for their classroom to run effectively.
This tool is to be used at the beginning of the year to establish what procedures will be used frequently in the classroom and what steps will need to be taken in order to complete this task successfully. When working on a specific procedure, students will give their ideas on what they think should be the steps to completing this task should be. The teacher can also add ideas to what students say or phrase what a student said in a different way to make it fit what they want to happen in the classroom. Once all the steps of the procedure are completed, the class as whole and the teacher will agree on the steps that need to be taken to complete the task, and this will be repeated for all the procedures that happen in the classroom.
This tool fits in the preventative phase of management because by creating the procedures together, it is setting the environment of the classroom and the expectations that students are going to hold themselves to when going through the procedures. When the procedures are created together and the students primarily come up with the steps to complete the procedures, they are more likely to follow them because they are the ones who thought of them and then agreed on them as a class. This tool falls under the student-centered and collaborative theory of influence because the students will first come up with the ideas on how they think the procedures should be set up, then the teacher will then give their input on what changes or ideas they think would be best for the procedure.
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Tool Source: Gus Nollmeyer
