Create Your Dream Classroom: Prompt #2

Journal: Develop a list of changes you want to make next year. This list will be essential in the fall to ensure you follow through on your good intentions.

• Change my approach in curriculum. I had several students this year who were not shy in telling me when they thought my approach was irrelevant. While it hurt my feelings (ew), it did make an impression on me and motivate me to re-examine how I am delivering my history curriculum.
• Design a short list of rules for my classroom--
• tardies
• cussing
• labels and dates on assignments
• CELL PHONES???
• outside privileges
• Successfully and consistently implement those rules
• Design and implement an organized behaviorial intervention pyramid and record
• Address one of the Four Agreements each quarter, and focus on it in our classroom

• Practice more positive behavior reinforcements: call parents, Good Kids every week, CBG, White Boards and quote of the day, Friday candy, Monday coffee, maybe do lunch? 
• Put the student texting app into place
• Do more projects, project based learning, and writing--less of everything else. Have more fun.
• Declare my classroom a "No Stress Zone".