Welcome to week
four of the Classroom Management Series! This week are diving into managing the chaos of entering and
leaving the classroom. This is not
for when individual students leave to go to the bathroom or anything. This is when the whole class
comes into your room for the first and leaves for the last time that day.
Ideally, the
students will come in and IMMEDIATELY be prepared for the lesson. However, students need to time to get
their materials ready, brain started up, and bodies quieted.
Here are some
tips for entering the classroom using our two types of solutions.
Preventive Solutions
- Greet students at the door or be standing when students enter the classroom
- Have students do the same routine every day
- For example:
- take out their notebook and pencil case
- hang their bags on the back of their chair
- put extra assignment in specified spot
- look on the board for the warm up instructions
- Have a warm up on their desks or written on the board for them to start when they sit down
- Have assigned seats for students
- Have students practice coming in the room the way you expect them to
- Give specific instructions
- For example:
- sit in your chair facing the front
- walk in to the room without talking
Responsive Solutions
- If students come running in or come in loudly ask them to re-enter the room and do it again correctly
- Have them fill
out the “Behavior Notice”
Download for free HERE
Why worry about how students enter your
class?
How students
enter your class sets the tone for the rest of the day. If it was chaotic with students doing
what they want, then it will be harder to get the students to listen to you.
Students are watching the
clock and waiting for the opportunity to escape no matter how enticing your
lesson is. However, you still need
to control how and when students exit.
This allows you to teach till the last minute (isn’t our goal to use as
much time to teach?) and maintain control of the classroom. Having a set routine for students ends
the day on a positive note (no yelling or signs of frustration) that they will
take home with them.
Preventive Solutions
- Students are not dismissed until you have given them permission
- Stand at the door to tell students bye
- Ask students to complete an
“Exit Ticket” to give to you at the end of the lesson/day
Download for free HERE - Do the same routine to leave
- For example:
- complete the exit ticket
- put supplies back in their bag
- sit facing the front till their name is called
- Call students by name to leave
- Keep the classroom door closed until you are ready to dismiss the students
Responsive Solutions
- If students stops working and packing things away before the allotted time, go to that student and tell them to get their supplies back out to continue working
- Have student fill out the “Behavior Notice”
- Have students that pack up early be the last ones to leave and/or help clean the classroom
Why
stress the importance of exiting in an orderly manner?
Students are there
to learn and teachers only have a limited time with them. Students need to be taking advantage of
all the time given to them to learn.
If there is a routine, this can be done in the last minute or two
quickly and without the stressful yelling. You want your students to exit your classroom feeling
accomplished and good about themselves.
This will not happen if you are screaming at them, they are scrambling
to find their supplies to leave as quickly as possible.
Next week's question:What do you do when students eat in the classroom? Please leave your tip in the comment section below.
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