Student Behavior Essay

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Lewis, B. (2008). Class meetings help foster responsible, ethical student behavior. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from http://k6educators.about.com/od/classroom management/a/communitycircus.htm. There are several ways that you can build a community on your classroom. This article talks about building your classroom community through class meetings known as the Community Circle. You can hold these class meetings either weekly or bi-weekly, whichever suits your class the best. When you are holding these meeting you need to block off at least 20 minutes to have the session. While in the class meeting you may sit in a circle on the floor or you can even pull chairs and arrange them in a shape that you at least can have all students to where they are going to be able to see each other and actively participate. In the class meetings you and the students can discuss rules for proper behavior in the classroom. You can have mini lessons on correct ways to follow procedures and have the students model this. As a class you can also have positive talk for those 20 minutes. Things can be shared about their classmates, but only in a positive way. You want the class meeting time to be a place that the students look forward to coming to each week or every other week. You can also have students to hold mock interviews during this time. This would be especially good at the beginning of the year as an ice breaker so that the children get to know each other a little bit. When we have class meetings you have to have a signal to let the children know if they are getting too noisy or even when it is time to end the session. A signal that may be used can be as simple as raising your hand in the air and counting to five. At the end of the counting you will have all of the students looking up at you for further instructions on what to do next. This article was very helpful to me.

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