Eastern Washington University
This classroom management tool relieves the pressure off of students when getting into groups of two during paired activities. It also eliminates that awkward feeling a student can experience when not being able to find a partner.
Developing rules alongside students is when teachers facilitate a conversation with and among the students to determine moral expectations for the classroom. This tool is helpful because it fosters student ownership in the classroom and responsibility among the students for their behaviors.
Rules are important to have in a classroom, but even more important is how the rules are presented. They are meant to create the classroom environment, and are created for a moral reason. If they are positively phrased, purposeful, and conceptual, they will be much more effective.
Planning for high traffic area tool is helpful by organizing the classroom in a way where all things that will be used during group work is widely separated from each other, have plenty of space, and easy to get to for students if they are moving around a lot.
This tool uses the idea of purposeful design and coloring in your classroom to make it appeasing to the eye. When you are thoughtful about your colors and design, it helps to create a space for students where they are more likely to be better focused and more comfortable.
The tool is a telephone outline picture with 6 empty spots on it that each student will get. The students will pair up (6 different times) and write the name of their partner on one of the numbers in their telephone, the other partner will do the same. Each pair will have the others’ name in the same number spot so that the number spots are matching. This will be used for grouping.
This is simple, non-verbal, “call and response” tool for the classroom. It is a quick way to get student’s attention.
This greeting tool is a great way for kids to start off their morning and for the teacher to be able to read how the child is feeling that day. In short, it’s a board that is posted outside the classroom where the individual student gets to pick how the teacher greets them that day before entering the classroom. Some of the options can include fist bump, hug, mini dance party, high five, handshake, or any other options the teacher sees fit.
Random Acts of Kindness is a tool used in the beginning of the year where students first pick one envelope each where it has an act of kindness written in it. Their next step is to do that act of kindness and take a picture or write about what they did. It is helpful as it shows students different ways they can show kindness to each other.
Appealing classroom can be used to nurture reflective thinking. Having cool tone colors and uncluttered rooms can create a positive classroom that will proactively prevent student misbehavior.
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