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Saturday, October 25, 2014

You Oughta Know About Behavior Management

Happy Saturday everyone!  I am so excited to link up with Jasmine from Buzzing with Mrs. McClain for the You Oughta Know Blog Hop!!! This is where several fabulous bloggers have come to share their ideas on what we feel teachers should know about.

My post will cover some of my favorite behavior management tips.

Have you Filled a Bucket Today? is a great book to introduce How to be a Bucket Filler? in your classroom.  I especially love this book, because it has a positive behavior message that children can see through illustrations how everyone has an invisible bucket that has the potential of being filled, or can be emptied.  This is my first year implementing Bucket Fillers in my classroom and it really has helped my students use kind and encouraging words towards each other.  They are learning that when you fill someone's bucket your bucket is being filled too. And when we are negative, we are dipping not only their bucket, but also emptying ours.  In my classroom I have notes that a student fills out when someone fills their bucket.  Then sometime during the day, when I notice one has been turned in, I call the two students and we share the bucket filler.  Each student gets to put a pom pom in their bucket to show when you fill someones bucket, your bucket gets filled too!!!
Tattling Toby 
At the beginning of the year we learn the difference between tattling and reporting.  Now my students tattle to "Tattling Toby" by writing their thoughts on coupons.  They place the coupons in the basket and I "read" their coupons after they leave.  I have a good laugh most of the time and I don't have to hear any tattles during the day.  I was amazed after my first year trying "Tattling Toby."  Honestly I hardly hear any Tattles anymore.   You can check out this FREEBIE in my TPT store by clicking the picture or here.

Positive talk!!!! I have a mirror in my classroom for my students to say something positive about themselves when they come into class.  Then, throughout the day if a student starts to say anything negative about themselves they go to the positive mirror where they speak positive words while looking in the mirror.  It's really encouraged my students to start thinking and saying positive words about themselves. 
Have you tried Social Stories in your classroom? I absolutely LOVE Sasha's social stories, because they are short and to the point.  They have helped so many of my students with behaviors, communication, personal space, emergency, etc.  She has so many themes to choose from.  You can check out her social stories by clicking the picture or here.
Having a Cool Down Spot somewhere in your classroom where your students can take a break when needed.  I have a tent that serves as the cool down spot and read with a buddy during our Daily 5 time.  Another alternative for a cool down spot would be a your work on writing area if a student likes to draw/color when needing to take a break.
Having individual visuals to help students that struggle learning the routine at the beginning of the year.  Here is an example of a visual morning routine that I made for a coworker that is placed on one of her students' desk.  

Thank you for taking time to read my blog post,  be sure to hop over to any of these other fabulous bloggers! 

10 comments:

  1. What a neat cool down spot! I used to have a bench in the first school I ever taught in. It was inside my classroom and I put an oversized bear by it. Students could go talk to the bear when they needed a cool down time. I also tried using life sized cardboard of celebrities for older kids. I had a Justin Bieber one when he wasn't such a D-Bag.

    A LoveLi Class

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    1. Thank you so much! I love the celebrity poster idea for older kiddos. I will have to make those and put near our tent area. :)

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  2. Thank you for sharing these awesome ideas Lawren! I really think that the social stories are something that I need for my classroom. I think my kids would really benefit from them.

    Jasmine
    Buzzing With Mrs. McClain

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    1. Thank you Jasmine! I've shared social stories with several general education teachers and all say they have helped so much with their kids that needs them. Whole group I saw a huge difference with the "raise your hand before speaking" story. With my kiddos that were struggling I saw a huge difference within a week after going over the story everyday. Then I keep a folder with several in there if a student needs to refer to one during the year. :)

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  3. Tattling Toby is great! Love it! I also really love your positive talk in the mirror! That is fantastic and I need to do that I think (even with myself sometimes) :) I will check out those social stories, I have some kiddos who would really benefit from them and could use those examples.

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    1. Thank you Alex!!! I love Tattling Toby as well. It's so cute seeing them go over to Toby and express their tattles. :) Oh yes, I definitely go to the positive mirror each morning as well!! Sasha has a gift creating short and to the point social stories that kids can understand and doesn't take a lot of class time. I think they are perfect for a Kindergarten class. Thank you so much for taking the time to read!!!

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  4. I love the idea of Tattling Toby... so cute & would be SO nice not to hear tattles during the day! Thanks for sharing :)
    -Ashlee
    TeacherWillRunforBooks

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  5. I love the positive mirror and the morning routine chart with visuals. I think it would reLly help some of my chattier friends in the morning.

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