Monday, April 4, 2011

New Classroom Management System in Room 40

Over the past week or so, our class planned a new system for classroom management and a more realistic classroom economy. Our new system will attach more realistic consequences to students breaking the rules. Essentially, it will work as follows.

Students will have classroom jobs for which they will earn a monthly income.
They will use their income to pay for the right to eat in the classroom at lunch and to buy goods in our class store and our auctions.
When a student breaks a rule, they will pay a fine rather than flipping a card. Unlike the system we've used up until now, which gives the same consequence for different types of behavior, this updated system gives different consequences based on the severity of the "crime".
The different class "crimes" and their corresponding fines were determined by the students, and are as follows.



Instead of students filling in a simple letter grade in their planners, which doesn't tell a parent much at all, they will from now on be writing the specific fines that they received each day.

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