Level 4- Somewhere Else To Plan
- Walk: Have students take a walk so they can try and calm themselves down.
- Planning Room: Student go to another room to speak to staff members who can help them think rationally and calm down before returning to class. This is an example of a form students can fill out while in the planning room:
(Villa, Thousand, & Nevin, 2010).
- Counselors: Students will have the option to go speak with the school counselors when they are struggling with their behavior and need someone to talk to.
- Brief Explanation: Students who are asked to leave the room should be given a “brief explanation for the time out to help build an association between the misbehavior and the… consequence” (Spring, 2005).
- Welcome Back: When student return to the room I will welcome them back so they know that they were held accountable for their behavior but now they can start over with a clean slate (Linsin, 2010).
Sources:
Linsin, M. (2010, December 18). How to Send Students To Time-out. In Smart Classroom Management. Retrieved September 20, 2014
Sring, . (2005). Classroom Behavior Management: A Dozen Common Mistakes and What to Do Instead. Preventing School Failures, 49(3), 11-19. Retrieved September 20, 2014
Villa, R.A. Thousand, J.S. & Nevin, A.I. (2010). Chapter 9: Students as Collaborators in Responsibility, Collaborating with Students in Instruction and Decision Making, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, p. 171-188.
Linsin, M. (2010, December 18). How to Send Students To Time-out. In Smart Classroom Management. Retrieved September 20, 2014
Sring, . (2005). Classroom Behavior Management: A Dozen Common Mistakes and What to Do Instead. Preventing School Failures, 49(3), 11-19. Retrieved September 20, 2014
Villa, R.A. Thousand, J.S. & Nevin, A.I. (2010). Chapter 9: Students as Collaborators in Responsibility, Collaborating with Students in Instruction and Decision Making, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, p. 171-188.