Classroom+Procedures

This page is for classroom procedures.

Mrs. Stephens has very determined classroom procedures. She does pretty much the same thing everyday. The order and consistency of it keeps the students attention and keeps them controlled. The morning always started with morning work. As the students came into the classroom, they took folders out of their backpacks, made lunch choices, and got ready for the day. There was always some sort of morning work on their table. They always had to write a sentence on some topic and draw a picture on the topic. They wrote the date, and when they were done with that, they went to the back of their paper and wrote the numbers to 100. This normally took almost an hour, and always included bathroom time. Following, the students went to the carpet, where they did carpet time, which included songs and the morning message. After carpet time, the students would return to their seats and have a lesson, which would normally consist of drawing a picture and writing a sentence. Reading groups typically followed the lesson, and then the students would get a bathroom break and line up for lunch. Lunch was thirty minutes long, which the students ate in the lunchroom and the teacher ate in her classroom. There was a bathroom break after lunch, then the students headed back to the classroom where they normally did an assignment with numbers or would use the time to catch up on work from earlier. About 30 minutes later, they would head to camp, which the students split up into four groups for, heading to either computer, art, music, or P.E. CAMP was 40 minutes, then they went to recess on the playground or blacktop. After recess, they would have a bathroom and water break then have a math lesson. On the day that I was there all day, after math lesson, the students would have a center time- like a free time to do what they wanted in the classroom with no structure. (On days that I wasn't there, I was told that sometimes they would have rest time). Again, on the days that I was there, after centers, they would have Fun Friday of which the activity ranged from a nature walk to coloring pumpkins to something involving food, etc. (On the days that I wasn't there, I was that they typically had a social studies or a science lesson. Sometimes, the math lesson from earlier would run longer, and they would have a letter center time). Then, there was dismissal. Classroom procedures in a special education resource classroom with K, 1st, and 2nd graders was a little more chaotic. There were students who came and went into the room. Although Miss Kidd did try to keep a schedule, some days that simply did not work due to a temper tantrum or a medical issue from student or a bathroom accident with a another. Typically, the only second grader in the class would do the same work as the first grader. Combined lessons between all three grades would happen often, but typically the teacher tried to do separate lessons for the kindergartners and the 1st and 2nd graders. Bathroom breaks happened regularly, and many things that would happen in a Gen-Ed classroom would be attempted in this classroom. Students could be told to line up (even though they didn't always do this; it just depended on the type of day they were having). Students were expected to do their work (even though for some students this just meant hand over hand work). They were expected to listen to the teacher and behave as students are supposed to behave. Lunch happened everyday at the same time (11:30) and any major deviations from the schedule would set the tone for the rest of the day (slightly chaotic and a little off beat). CAMP and recess would happen at the same time everyday, although typically the students would show up much later than the start time. Miss Kidd does keep the schedules posted for all three grades and does her best to stick to the schedule, although as I said, some days this simply doesn't happen.