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Classroom management
By Lashawn

You are definately in need if some classroom management. What grade do you teach? If I had to guess it is older students. I know the older students "look" as if they would know how to behave because they are in adult bodies,
but you have to remember that they are still kids in their heads. I teach 5th grade and we have a system that seems to get them motivated to act the way they should. It is a compliment and complait system. This is how it works: We have 4 classes of 5th graders, so we send a checklist of everyone's name to each class. If a student receives one check(warning), two checks (office). At the

end of the class, the class as a whole recieves a compliment if they are good, (ex. Great Class! Had all homework!) or a complaint(ex. Loud lining up today! Loud when a visitor is in room)Any teacher in the school can give our kids a compliment or complaint and it counts! At the end of the day, each teacher tallies how many compliments or complaints their homeroom has. Complaints cancel compliments so kids hate to get them. Whichever class has the most compliments after 3 weeks gets a prize (ex. popcorn, icecream, etc.) The kids love the competition with the other classes and we really get them pumped up about winning. It really helps our kids become teammates. My homeroom was horible at the beginning of the year, but now they are the best, and have won the compliments/complaints 4 times this year! It really works and it's also a lot of fun. You really can't expect your kids to just DO what you want without some kind of adult motivation. This is a good way. I really hope I helped you out.