Blog Post-7 What are the school rules/classroom rules and how are they enforced?

Managing a classroom is a very important part of being a teacher. There needs to be clear rules and expectations that they follow. There needs to be praise for positive behavior, as well as discipline for negative behavior. In the classroom that I have attended for my fieldwork he does things a little differently than many teachers I have observed. He has a form of the credit card system that was shown in the modules. All students have a card on their desks. If they are misbehaving, talking out of turn, wandering around the room, or doing anything that is not expected in the classroom rules he "marks" their card. At the end of the month how ever empty squares that they have on their card they can spend in the classroom store. The store has everything from candy to coupons for lunch with the teacher.

This system seems to be working with his class. They have basic rules of no talking when the teacher is talking, paying attention, no wandering the room, be respectful to other students, be on task, etc. If they are doing any of these things he starts to mark the cards. This instantly gets the class back on track and listening. Usually he only has to mark a few cards to get the whole class under control. They all seem to have a mutual respect and it seems to be working well for his classroom.