Student Contributor: C.Kane Signal interference is one of those tools that is a non-verbal way to correct your students when they are doing an appropriate behavior within your classroom. This tool does not cause any distractions towards other students and it is meant to only target one or multiple specific students who are having difficulty that need to be corrected. What’s great about the strategy is that peers around them will not be distracted by this … [Read more...] about Signal Interference
Corrective
3 A’s of Restitution
Student Contributor: Kellan The 3 A's of Restitution is a three part process to making amends after exhibiting anti-social behavior. This tool guides students through taking responsibility for their actions and then correcting them.The 3 A's stand for acknowledge, apologize, and act. When anti-social behavior has occurred and has affected something or someone else, there is a need for restitution. This is vital to the relationships within the classroom. … [Read more...] about 3 A’s of Restitution
Cool Down Buddy
Student Contributor: H. Tate The cool-down buddy tool is a corrective strategy that can help students who are going through emotions during class time and need a chance to cool down. When the student is upset, they can quietly walk to tap their cool-down buddy on the shoulder, and walk to the designated cool-down spot in the classroom together.With this tool, students are able to tap a friend on the shoulder and go to the cool-down corner together. Going … [Read more...] about Cool Down Buddy
If You Can Hear Me
Student Contributor: S. Myklebust In a kindergarten classroom, when there are multiple behaviors occurring at once, it can be hard to get the attention of the class and redirect the behaviors. Using an alternative to Simon Says, students follow actions I say, such as “if you can hear me put your hands on your head” and progressively get quieter until I have all students’ attention.This tool is a GREAT attention getter for students when there are multiple … [Read more...] about If You Can Hear Me
Safe Space
Student Contributor: N.Nunez Safe spaces in a classroom consist of allowing students to go and relieve stress, calm down and recharge their emotions before going back to learn. A safe space supports students social-emotional learning by teaching these students to focus on their good emotions and manage their bad emotions.Safe spaces are for all children in the classroom. Although these spaces are most effective and used by students with high levels of … [Read more...] about Safe Space
When I’m Upset
Student Contributor: J. Hudson This tool is used to help a student calm down once their emotions become to much for them to handle. They will have different cool down methods and choose which methods will help them calm down.When a student is upset, they will go to the designated spot for this activity and begin. They will take out a file folder filled with methods for cooling down, (I.e. “I can read,” or “I can take a deep breath.” They will choose which … [Read more...] about When I’m Upset
Heads Down
Student Contributor: S. Hough When the whole class is not listening, being disruptive, or being too loud you simply say, "heads down!" and everyone puts their heads down on their desks. Then you can give instructions, or ask for better attention from studentsThis tool is really pretty simple. My mentor teacher uses this to get students attention when she has tried a couple different ways, or has had to continually remind students to focus/stay on track. … [Read more...] about Heads Down
Guest Classroom Break
Student Contributor: N. Cabiad When a situation or behavior problem has occurred, the student/s involved will be relocated to a classroom that has previously agreed to take on a student for a break. The student will be handed a pass and will go to the guest classroom for an allotted amount of time to cool off and remove themselves from where the issue had occurred.This tool is when teachers choose to send a student to a separate classroom for a length of … [Read more...] about Guest Classroom Break
Natural Consequences
Student Contributor: B. Brattin Natural consequences are the outcomes or the consequence that happens as a result of the behavior. They are not preplanned consequences the teacher has in place if something happens. This tool is helpful because the consequence will naturally happen and be connected with the actual misbehavior, therefore it will make sense to the child.The natural consequence tool should be used naturally after a behavior or problem happens. … [Read more...] about Natural Consequences
Following Through on consequences
Student Contributor: P.Solis Following through with consequences is a tool used that can be used to correct students when they are misbehaving. As a class at the begging of the school year we set class rules and as class when those rules are broken we are set consequences because we broke them.At the beginning of the year it is important that as class we set school rules that are important to the class as a whole, this way as a class we can also set … [Read more...] about Following Through on consequences