Action Plan

Action Plan:

Beliefs: My beliefs for a classroom is for everyone to be accepting of one another, show respect, kindness and to love each other.

Our Class at a Glance: Our studio will be a diverse classrom, where it is an encouragoing place for all the students to learn at their own pace and be accepted. 

One Classroom Rule: One classroom rule is to always be respecting one another.

Class Procedures:

  1. Entering the classroom:  Enter quietly and politely; remove your hat if you're wearing one; don't interrupt other students.
  2. Classroom helpers; learning a classroom job: Every student will play a different role in the classroom.
  3. Getting help with assignments: Quietly ask the students near you for help with directions if you need it but wait for me to finish talking; if you are working alone, raise your hand to get help from me.
  4. Guests in the classroom: be respectful to the guest and listen to what they are saying.
  5. Participating in Group Lessons: Do not bring anything with you unless I ask you to; politely find a place to sit where you can do your best learning; sit flat, not on your knees; listen carefully for new information; raise your hand to speak; do not speak when someone else is speaking.
  6. Helping other students: In a cooperative classroom, it is good to help one another; if someone needs help with directions, help him or her if you are able; if someone needs help with understanding, tell him or her to ask me for help; never put down another student who asks for help.
  7. Signals for attention: When I need your attention, I will ring the chimes (or sound the rain stick, open the music box, etc.); as soon as you hear the signal, stop what you are doing, look at me, and listen for directions.
  8. Attendance: every morning I will take attendance and the students will have to say here when I call their name.
  9. What to do during free time: If we have down time, make sure to utilize your break effectively; you may get water, stretch, or mark anything you are struggling with.  Feel free to come to me with any questions or concerns.
  10. End of the day: Students will leave the classroom in a calm manner and leave it just how they arrived to it. 

Schedule: 

  • Monday 
    • 8:00 a.m.-8:10a.m.:
      • The students enter the classroom and they warm up with the teacher leading. They shake off their worries and clear their mind.
    • 8:10a.m.-8:20a.m.:
      • Improve - the kids get creative.
    • 8:20a.m.-8:50a.m.: 
      • Teach the students a dance. 
    • 8:50a.m.-9:00a.m.: 
      • Cool down.

Minute by Minute: 

8:00-8:05 - enter the classroom

8:05-8:10 - stretch

8:10-8:12 -get into the circle for improve.

8:12-8:20 - improve

8:20 -8:25 - get into lines to teach dance

8:25-8:50 - teach the dance

8:50-9:00 - cool down

Positive Consequences:

  • Free and frequent: I will always offer a smile, fist bump, or high five.  My class as a whole or individual students will be verbally recognized when appropriate. 
  • Intermittent: Saving time for a dance-related game, like freeze dance, if a particularly challenging class runs smoothly.
  • Strong and long term: I will award a student of the month for their behavior and hard work.  He or she will be recognized in front of the class

Correcting Behaviors: Behavior crisis plan

  1. Alert another teacher working in a studio that I will be sending my students in and to have a game prepared to combine the classes.
  2. Send the rest of the class to another room with the teacher I notified.
  3. If possible, help the student in crisis to reestablish self-control.
  4. Bring the rest of the students back to class once the crisis has been addressed.
  5. Call home. If not possible, send the student home with a note warning the parent or guardian of the extreme behavior.  It would be ideal to speak to the parent or guardian picking up the student in-person.
  6. If the offense is repeated, schedule a meeting with the parent or guardian along with the student to go over a behavior contract that the student must sign and maintain.  Make sure to go over any consequences if the contract should be broken.

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