Monday, September 10, 2007
Day 1
Well ya'll, I made it! Day 1 down, 179 left! Overall, it was a good day. I started off strong by reviewing my classroom expectations and procedures with the kids. I'm a floater this year and I have 3 preps so it's going to take some time to smooth out my schedule. Right off the bat, I can tell that my 1st period and last period groups have been in 'sub mode' aka I'm still gonna try to get over on this teacher even though I clearly acknowledged her request, so I've got to get them back into shape quickly. Thankfully, there's a school wide discipline policy so that should alleviate some of the chronic line-steppers. Speaking of that, teachers, how do you handle students who constantly test the rules? I have about 3-4 students in each of my classes that I'm going to have to keep a tight leash on, at least for the first couple of months.
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How I handle it is persistence and consistency, and letting them know there is a line of demarcation, and it's solidly protected by you ... something to that effect.
give warnings and enforce consequences. If you don't enforce consequences that hurt you will have this problem all year.
I like this question. I'll write more in-depth about it tomorrow morning on my blog.
I find that warnings basically give the kids a free pass to misbehave once before getting in trouble. I give a warning at the beginning of the year and from then on, any misbehavior is fair game to punishment.
I generally have the students call home and tell whoever answers the phone what they did, what their punishment is, and what happens if they do it again. It's generally lunch detention for the first time, after school detention after that, and office referral as the last resort.
When all else fails, us elective teachers can request a schedule change...
yo! why you already counting the days!! do you like teaching!?!?
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