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Establishing good classroom discipline is essential to each child’s success,
confidence, and well-being. Every child should feel that the classroom
environment is safe and secure; free from all threats of physical or
emotional harm. In addition, it is important that each child learn to
develop self-discipline and good work habits, to resolve conflicts
peacefully, and to think independently.
There are three basic parts to the discipline plan: Kindergarten agreements,
Classroom community, and Logical consequences.
1. Kindergarten Agreements
There are three basic agreements that we have in Kindergarten:
Work hard
Play fair
Respect one another.
As a class we spend time discussing what these agreements mean and how they
affect us in our classroom.
2. Classroom Community
The children will learn the purpose of classroom rules and develop ideas
that our classroom is a community. Community meetings and discussions are
ways to establish that our classroom is a community with the common purpose
of learning, growing and becoming friends. There is a time set aside for
daily community meetings.
3. Logical Consequences
The idea is for the consequence to be related to the misbehavior and act as
a solution or restitution for the problem. For example, if a child spills
something, he or she must clean it up. By having the consequence directly
related to the act, the child will begin to understand cause and effect
relationships. If classroom rules are severely or persistently broken,
parents will be contacted by note (to be signed and returned) or by
telephone. I may also set your child up on an individual behavior plan. A
visit to the principal’s office is a rarely used last resort.
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