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class rules
By L. Wood

I am also a Ms. Wood and I am teaching a 6th grade social studies class this year! The way I handled class rules and procedures was to actually have the students (believe it or not) create the rules and consequences for
the class. We took 2 class periods to work in small groups and brainstorm what rules need to be established for the class. The groups wrote their rules, consequences to breaking the rule, and possible rewards for following the rules. From there, each group presented their set of rules. After all groups presented, the class voted on which rules they thought were fair and wanted to add to

our final class list of rules. (Of course, if I didn't like a rule or feel comfortable with the rule I had the power to veto it!) So far, this has worked out well because the students feel some ownership for the class rules. Hope this helped a little.