Classroom setup

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Assignment Details

Your Classroom Procedures

Purpose:

Selecting procedures for getting off to a good start on the first day of school can be challenging. However, establishing a well-managed classroom must start early. To do this you must consider what may seem like small details. Planning the small details leads to a better-managed environment.

Remember middle and high school students will move from one class to the next during the school day with very little time in-between classes. 

You, the teacher, will remain in your classroom and will “welcome” one group of students after another during the entire day. Depending on your specific teaching assignment, you may be teaching one single level of a subject, two, three… possibly even two different subjects. 

Your classroom procedures will be designed to help you teach within your organized classroom so that disruptions and downtime are minimized.

Some procedures may involve the students in helping you “run the classroom” (such as having assigned jobs) which will create a greater sense of significance, involvement, and ownership of the classroom.

If you are an experienced teacher some of these procedures may or may not be what you are using in your classroom. You are still required to follow these guidelines exactly like everyone else as they support what we believe are best practices.

Directions: 

For your first Assignment in this course, you will create the following classroom procedures that could be in your secondary classroom. You will create this Assignment in a MS Word or Power Point (other formats will not be reviewed). Each procedure will be listed separately and clearly titled (with the titles provided below). Within each procedure, include the name and links for technology tools, software, or apps that may support the daily data collection for each student along with instructional technology, classroom record keeping using apps or tablets, and grading technology. 

Make sure you have completed all your assigned readings for week 1 before writing your procedures. This will save time by avoiding having to rewrite your procedures and or missing points in this Assignment. 

Beginning of Class

1. Attendance taking
2. Academic warm-up
3. What do you do if you are tardy?

Instructional Activities

1. Signal for student attention

2. What do you do when you are done with work?

Ending Class

1. Putting away supplies or equipment

2. Class dismissal 

Work Requirements

1. Late work

2. Missed work

3. What do you after you return to class after being absent? 

Grading Procedures

1. How are grades calculated in this class?

2. Extra credit

Guidelines for Writing Procedures: 

1. Procedures should be written for the students. They are the actors who are going to perform step-by-step your procedure to accomplish that task, therefore the procedure should not refer to the students in the third person. It should address them directly. The exception is the three items under “work requirements and grading”.

2. It should include NO narrative or explanation. The steps should be enough and self-explanatory (a procedure is like a cooking recipe, step by step to accomplish that task....do not include a narrative or a text, only the steps the students are supposed to follow). 

3. Procedures should have between three and eight steps, but not more. Steps should be clearly broken out and with bullets or numbered. 

4. Each step should involve only one small part of the task to keep it simple.

This Assignment is worth 100 points and is due at the end of Unit 1. 

Please refer to the rubric link under Course Resources for grading criteria. 

This Assignment addresses the following unit learning outcome:

• Create procedures that contribute to effective classroom management. 

This Assignment addresses the following course outcomes:

ED581-1: Develop rules and procedures for the establishment of an effective classroom environment.