I just had an 11 hour plane ride to arrive in Belgium to see my family. I heard the flight attendants sharing these directions with us and I started to think about how important it is for you to do the same as you work with our students. Caring for yourself is always important but especially when you are running into a holiday and MAP testing when we return in January. So considering LEVELING UP on your self care. Make a pact with someone at school sharing what your strategy and action plan will be. We know this job is difficult on a good day so caring for your self and promising to do so is something you need to commit to before your rea on.
Your work around differentiation with your four students will. make a difference. Your consistency and well-monitored plan will see this through. In addition kids will begin to get excited and may have issues focusing. It's up to you to implement our student support system as well as CHAMPs and common area expectations. Research shows that the most effective way to transform a school climate into a civil and respectful one is to implement a schoolwide behavioral plan that stresses proactive and positive corrective responses toward misbehavior.
You will be discussing implementation in PD on Monday. Remember it is key that you are implementing well to keep our school at the level it's currently at.
We know that
- All students must be treated with dignity and respect.
- Students should be taught the skills and behaviors necessary for success.
- Motivation and responsibility should be encouraged through positive interactions and building relationships with students.
- Student misbehavior represents a teaching opportunity.
These beliefs are the cornerstone of Foundations and CHAMPS. Monitoring and implementing the components of CHAMPS is key to keeping kids engaged and well behaved. Believe me when your kids are well behaved and monitored your stress level will go down,
Commit to your CHAMPS expectations. Plan to relaunch them in January. These pieces are the glue that hold your work in differentiation together.
Remember... you will care for others but put on your own oxygen mask first!
How would you rate yourself on your implementation of CHAMPS? Please consider the likert scale of 1-5 with one being not at all and 5 being rolling consistently at every turn. Please write a few sentences justifying your score. Please remember to label your comment with you name.
Megan Millar-
ReplyDeleteI would say I'm at a 3 with implementing CHAMPS. I put a 3 because I'm good at posting it and switching it when what the students are doing changes, but I have gotten more inconsistent with going over expectations as the year has gone on. I will refer back to the posters when correcting a behavior but I need to remind myself to continue to go over them before hand in order to prevent the need of correcting some of the behaviors.
I would give myself a 3. I have our CHAMP posters posted and will refer to them as we transition throughout the day. Going forward I would like to see my students take more ownership of their actions by having them share how they will show they will be a CHAMP in the next transition and then after the task I would like to have my students reflect on how they did following our CHAMP expectations. I believe student participation and reflection will help shift my management to become more self managed students.
ReplyDeleteSam Mohr-
ReplyDeleteI would give myself a 3. I have them posted in my room and also refer to them during each lesson. I feel like I need to be better about going back over them if a student is not meeting the expectations. I also want to have students reflect on how they are doing on the expectations when we come back.
I would rate a 3. At the beginning of the year I would say I was closer to a 5. As the class got underway and followed expectations consistently, I have not gone over them as much. When we had a few days that were tougher, we went back over them and I had table groups get their card bundles out and leave on tables as a reminder.
ReplyDeleteDew: I would agree probably a 3 or 4 as well. I do refer to our posters during the different time of the day as well as the hallway. After Christmas break will definitely be a good time to reboot and refresh expectations with CHAMPS.
ReplyDeleteI would say a 3 or 4 depending on the day. The posters are up and referred to as needed. I'm still working on getting all of the students to follow the expectations without frequent reminders
ReplyDeleteI would give myself a 3. I have gotten to a point where I'll point at the poster for the correct CHAMPS guidelines so there eyes will go there and be reminded of the expectations. I revised our arrival and dismissal to a voice level of 1. I had it at zero and that was unrealistic for those transitions.
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