Tidbit 1: Creating a Supportive Classroom Ecology
Help all children & parents feel comfortable. Take an hour to host a class picnic, where parents can attend, send food, or send a wish for the class to be read aloud if they cannot come. Have students translate if their folks speak another language. Make this a purely social call with 1 easy getting to know you activity. If you can, arrange to call the parents who can’t make it while everyone is there just to have the group shout into the phone, “Room 25 is thinking of you!” Having one of your first parent interactions be positive & welcoming will start that crucial parent-teacher team mentality.
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I just thought that you could do a fun and constructive writing activity by having students and parents together write a set of class rules or guidelines on the "picnmic tablecloth" (a piece of butcher paper) and that way parents are involved in signing off on and implementing the class rules. Maybe they will then check in with students about it.
ReplyDeleteOh! I just though that to redirect kids when misbehaving you can drop a "picnic napkin" on their desk that looks like a mini-napkin version of the table cloth. That way, you don't have to call the same student names out all the time. Lets say when they get 3 napkins, there's a consequence.