Behavior Management Plan

Behavior and Classroom Management Plan for Elementary School

Elementary Classroom Rules:

• Enter Quietly

• Sit in assigned seat

• Follow art room promises

• Raise hands

• Only the table captain allowed out of their seat

• No water, bathroom, or sharpening pencils during instruction time

• No work may be taken home until it has been turned in, graded and returned to the student

Art Room Promises:

• Listen

• Use quiet voice

• Take care of supplies

• Cooperate

• Try my best

Elementary Classroom Procedures:

• Seating Chart – assigned seats

• Table captains – assigned each grading period

• Student folders – students keep individual work in these folders

• Table folder (color coded by table) – Students place their individual folders inside their table folder to keep table work organized to be passed out easily the next class

• Class folders – These are color coded based on the day (A day, B day, C day) with the homeroom teacher and the grade level on the front to hold all table folders and to be placed on the classroom folder shelf

• Classroom folder shelf – holds every class folder for each grade and day and is organized in order of grade level

• Rules posted at the front and Art room promises laminated at each table

• Supply bins for each table (color coded by table)

• Treasure chest (students earn tickets for following rules and procedures for a chance to draw from the treasure chest)

Negative Consequences

• Verbal Warning

• Art Award taken away

• Note to the homeroom teacher

• Seat taken away – If the student chooses not to stay in their seat, they will have their chair removed and they will have to stand for the rest of the class

• Recovery zone time

• Note or Phone call home

• Severe disruption:  Visit to the principal

• If there is a continual problem, parent and teacher will meet to discuss an individual behavior plan

Example Recovery Zone Sheet:

Example Parent note:



Art Citizenship Award- A way to reward Positive behavior

• The Art Citizen Awards are small pieces of paper that are blank on the back. They have a list of desirable behavior that warrant the award. When a student is awarded, they write their name, teacher name, and grade on the back. Art Citizenship Awards are collected throughout class and turned in to their class container (plastic container with a lid to hold awards) at the end of class. At the end of the grading period (6 weeks), Teacher draws one award from the class container for each class and calls out the name on the back.

• Art Citizenship Awards are awarded for positive behavior such as: raising their hand to answer or ask questions, helping their neighbor, using their manners such as saying please and thank you, sharing and helping pass out materials. It can also be a good way to get students to clean up quickly or get to their seats quickly by saying, “First table clean gets a ticket”.

• Art Citizenship Awards can also be taken away when students display improper behavior such as: speaking out of turn, sharpening pencils during instruction, leaving their seat without permission, or being disrespectful to classmates. (This is why they will collect them and keep them with them during class. They will only be able to turn in their award to the class container if they have earned them throughout class.)

Coloring sheets – A way to reward answering correctly to review questions during line up at the end of class

• Coloring sheets work best if they go with the Unit of study.

• They are a good way to reward students for answering questions about the lesson correctly and raise their hand

• It is a good way to encourage engagement in review time at the end of the lesson

• To compete for a coloring sheet, students must be lined up and quiet

• Teacher asks questions about what was learned in the lesson

• Students who answer the questions correctly win a unit themed coloring sheet

• Mona Lisa coloring sheet is the highest award and will only be given to students who display extraordinarly good behavior in class. The coloring sheet can be completed and returned to class to be hung up to decorate the room.

Mona! Lisa! – Getting the students’ attention

• Mona Lisa can be used as a way for the teacher to get the students’ attention when the teacher has something important to say to the class.

• It sounds kind of like Marco Polo

• The teacher calls “Mona!” and claps 2 times

• The students respond “Lisa!” and clap 2 times

• Students are then supposed to give the teacher their full attention, which means their eyes are on the speaker, their mouths are closed, and their hands are still (just like the Mona Lisa).

• A poster of the Mona Lisa and the expectations for how to respond are posted in the classroom for reference

The Recovery Zone – A place to think/relax and collect your thought

• The recovery zone can be a designated area/safe place in the classroom for a student to be placed when they are disrupting the class.

• It is best to have a desk facing the wall, away from the other students. It is good to have cross word puzzles, books, or other activities located at the recovery zone for a student to calm their nerves.

• The student will also fill out a form with their name, date, what happened, how they feel, and how to fix the problem.

Free Draw – Free Draw is for students who have completed their work and there is time left over

• Free draw supplies can be located on a book shelf either by the teacher’s desk or somewhere in the classroom where there is space for students to sit on the floor and color or play games
• Free draw can also be completed at the tables if they are not a distraction to the rest of the class
• Supplies could include: games, cross words, word finds, drawing books, art books, reading books, puzzles, games, markers, crayons, blank paper, and coloring sheets/books

Behavior Management Plan for Secondary School

Classroom Rules:

• Enter Quietly
• Be Prepared – come to class with all material and assignments necessary for full participation in class
• Get out Portfolios/Projects/Sketchbooks/Materials (Students are taught and are expected to know where all materials are located for thier class and to obtain them on their own)
• Sit in assigned seat
• Raise hand to speak
• One person at a time to the bathroom/ Take hall pass
• No outside work allowed
• Cell phones may only be used on BYOD (Bring your own device) Day – Otherwise they are not allowed

Negative Consequences:

• Verbal warning
• Moving seats
• Discipline Referral
• Lunch Detention
• Temporary confiscation of items that disrupt the educational process
• Behavioral contracts
• Counseling by teachers, counselors, or administrative personnel
• Parent – teacher conferences
• Withdrawal of school privileges such as participation in contests, holding honorary office chairs, extracurricular activities, or club membership
• An automatic 10 points is taken off of the final grade if work is one day late. An extra 5 points is taken off every day after that it is late. 
• Any cheating will result in a 0 in the grade book

Classroom Procedures:

• Portfolios – all student work is to be kept in personal portfolio
• Portfolio drawers – Portfolios are to be placed in the class’s designated drawer
• Cabinets with supplies for each subject – A cabinet with drawing materials, a cabinet for painting materials, a cabinet for clay materials, etc. (All students are made familiar with which cabinet is for each class, and the materials in it)
• Cleaning materials – all tools must be washed( if needed) and replaced in their proper containers/cabinets
• Students must stay in their seats until the bell rings to be released
• Tutorial time before school and after school can be used to complete work. No work may be taken home (unless the teacher gives the student permission)
• All class set resources are to be filed in their correct place in the resource bins.
• Class dry rack – Students are to place wet work on designated dry rack for their class
• Sketchbooks are used for daily warmup activities and note taking and must not leave the classroom
• Sketchbooks – students must keep sketchbook on designated class shelf (sketchbooks may not be taken home)
• Computer access – only one student at the computer at a time

Example Resource bin – with class sets/packets with images related to all topics of study. These resources can be accessed for project ideas and brainstroming: