Teacher Week '13- Taming the Wild!

I'm back today to share with you how we do a little bit of classroom management in our classroom.  Like most of you, I have several levels and we do our best to focus on positive behavior reinforcement.

We have a classroom clip chart for individual behavior management.

 This is a FREEBIE from the lovely Haley O'Connor over at My Silly Firsties.

Each child has a clip with their name on it.  As they make great choices, or not so great choices, they move up or down the chart from green.  If they make it to pink, they earn a jewel.  Once they reach 10 jewels, they get a new colored clip.  The colored clips work like the colors on the clip chart.  They will first earn a green, then blue, then purple, and finally pink.  After pink, they earn MEGA jewels on them.  I have learned to put a tally mark on the back of their clip so I know how many jewels they should have.  Sometimes they just "fall off" WAY too many times! 

For whole class behavior, we earn cupcakes on our pan. 

Now, I know...cupcakes are in a cupcake pan and this is a cookie sheet, but that's okay! No one really cares! Because of all of the food rules at school, we earn a popcorn party when we receive 12 cupcakes.  We earn cupcakes by receiving compliments outside of the classroom or great reports from a substitute or other teacher. The library pocket holds the cupcakes so I can easily pull one out and put it on the pan.  (It's currently sitting on the floor because I can't decide where to put it!)

Now THIS is what I can't live without in the classroom.  Our DeBug.  

This is what we use to solve problems in our classroom.  We always make our own DeBug at the beginning of the year and then a copy of the DeBug System is in the back of their take home folder. 6 years ago when I started teaching, my team introduced me to this system.  All we ever had was a bug outline and the order of DeBug.  I have created other things to go along with teaching the system.  You can find them {HERE}!  

I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin' again today!