Transcript Teacher/Student Organization Setting up the Classroom

Teacher/Student Organization
Setting up the Classroom
Classroom Environment
BCIU#22- Summer Induction
Purpose
 To provide professional staff with
information, materials, and techniqueswhich can be adapted or modified- to
facilitate a good start and lay the
foundation for a successful year.
Activity
Creative Roll Call
- Each person will state their name,
position, school, and favorite TV
show
Top 5 List
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1. Set up your classroom
2. Read over student folders
3. Do lesson plans
4. Make classroom behavior plan
5. Timeline
- IEPs, ER/RR, Induction follow up
meetings, Summer Open House, Back to
School Night, Field Trips, CBI
Ice Breakers
Icebreakers provide a lot for
students, such as language, social
skills, discrimination.
Icebreakers also provide
information about students for
staff to get to know students
better.
Activity
Let’s try some ice breakers!
1. Help Me Guess
2. True True False
3. Match Game
Icebreakers
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Lollipop/Jolly Rancher pairs
M & M Activity
Guess Who
Gift Bag
True True False
Jingo
Find Someone Who…
Scavenger Hunt
Autographs Please
The Name Game
Tips for the First Day/Week
 KWL Activity
1. Grab a few post its and write:
- What you KNOW about your
school/position
- What you WANT to know
about your school/position
Emergency Situations
 Check for specific school procedures
Train and review with staff and students
 Be a role model for students and staff
 Be prepared
- forms
- copies of emergency forms
- “go to people”
- bag of tricks
- practice
Break
 Take a 5 minute break 
Initial Communication with
Students and Parents
First impressions are lasting impressions.
 Be clear and professional
 Send home surveys/questionnaires
 Send home welcome postcard/letter
- communicate Pre- September Visit/Summer
Open House information
- supply/material list
Pre-September Open House Tips
 Post a daily schedule
 Make seating arrangements
Conduct a classroom “tour” that highlights
special areas of the room, such as the reading
corner, class library, bulletin boards, and so
forth.
Mention classroom “highlights” to look forward
to: learning stations, specific field trips, new
materials, etc.
Offer simple, non-messy refreshments such as
juice, cookies, and pretzels
Smile 
Getting to Know Your Class
 grouping (testing)
 medical needs
 feeding needs
 bathroom needs
 daily schedules
 inclusion schedules
crisis management plan
positive behavior support plan
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Schedules
Making a daily schedule
 Post a daily schedule and discuss each morning. This allows students to
see what is coming up for the day. Have students participate in
planning whenever appropriate.
 Alternate activities throughout the day. Provide highly preferred, nonpreferred to maintain attention and behavior.
 Include inclusion. Plan and teach the routines necessary for transitions.
Middle and high school teachers and therapists need to organize and
manage time most precisely.
 When appropriate, include toileting and feeding on a student’s
individual schedule.
Writing the IEP
You can use:
- standardized tests
- instructional assessments
- inventory of basic skills
- observations/records
- progress reports/report cards
- RR/ER
- academic standards/alternative standards/SAS
- previous IEP
- cumulative record folder
Preparing for the IEP Meeting
Some simple guidelines that IEP teams may
follow to improve communication
1. Speak to others as you would be spoken to
2. Listen to others as you would be listened to
3. Check to insure you understood and were
understood correctly
4. Recognize that problems have solutions. Our task
is to find them.
5. Above all- remember that this meeting is about
what the child needs and how we can address
those needs.
Break
Take a 5 minute break 
Class Materials
You will need to know (program specific):
- ordering procedures
- purchase requisition forms
- online bid sheets
- reimbursement form
- tips for receiving new orders
- use up to date catalogs and/or online websites
*Procedures will vary depending on your supervisor.
You will also need each spring:
- To inventory and reorder supplies and consumable
workbooks
- To anticipate students entering and exiting your class
Room Arrangement
The physical arrangement of a classroom should:
- Provide a setting that is safe and orderly
- Give easy accessibility to materials and supplies
- Guarantee clear visibility between the student
and teacher and between the student and
teacher areas
- Allow adequate space
- Reduce or increase visual stimuli depending on
students
KWL Wrap Up
 KWL Activity
1. Grab a few post its and write:
-What you LEARNED
“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the
decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal
approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood
that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a
tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or
joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In
all situations it is my response that decides whether a
crisis be escalated or de-escalated and a child
humanized or dehumanized.” - Hiam Ginott