Blog 5 Classroom Management

Oh goodie the end of the year!!! Well, actually not so goodie...more like let's keep it together for the last 27 days of school!  Keeping the kids on track and learning for the last month of school is becoming a lesson in itself.  I use a visual communication with my students with dots.  They have three dots to keep and or earn before the end of the day.  If they are all gone at the end of the day, I call parents and we discuss behavior, what was or was not accomplished.  My hope is that they will reinforce listening, working and keep communication open.  We review zones of regulation all the time to make sure that the kids can retrieve at all times.  They have done well this year with staying in zones and self soothing when they get into the red zone.

I work with parents almost on a weekly basis and have as much of the year as I can to keep an open communication.  It seems as we are getting ready for a large shift in our program, it is almost daily but the reality to me is, if that is what it takes to make sure that my students are taken care of, my parents are in the know and we make this transition as easily as it can be done, then that is what has to happen.

Communication no matter what is key...whether it is the parent, teachers, administration, district, specialists...but the most important is the student!!!!