tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10378966.post1639989342783330488..comments2023-10-10T05:20:11.192-04:00Comments on Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Stay on the PathsJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04725549451973770515noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10378966.post-30810558581989140272012-09-26T21:10:04.481-04:002012-09-26T21:10:04.481-04:00Summers School, when I taught 4th/5th grades I had...Summers School, when I taught 4th/5th grades I had a time, once a week, for completing assignments. If students were completely finished with everything they could play or read or whatever. In first grade it is much less of an issue. It's just a different world.<br /><br />OC, my issues stem from two different things. First, it was completely a top-down implementation. There was no conversation about it, including about how to implement it resulting in people doing very different things that actually conflicted. One of the tenets of RC is creating things together. I get that with 700 kids it is tough (although not impossible)to create rules together, it isn't impossible to do so with the staff. Secondly, it is inconsistent with the cups in the cafeteria. Kids are being told red means one thing there and something else everywhere else in the building. I'd rather see two different sets of colors.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04725549451973770515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10378966.post-36250752396942779652012-09-26T12:24:30.347-04:002012-09-26T12:24:30.347-04:00I'm not there so I don't really know how i...I'm not there so I don't really know how it was introduced or what is going on but I don't see how the zones in the school are anti-responsive classroom. RC is about making sure the rules in school are taught, practiced, modeled, and constantly positively reinforced but it isn't anti-rule. As long as the quiet zones are introduced and retaught/modeled/reinforced I think the zones can work with the RC philosophy. <br />Knowing when to be quiet and when to whisper is a life skill and so teaching the school rules is a way that helps kids understand that sometimes we have to follow the rules is something they will take with them forever. organized chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18050635225751382130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10378966.post-17434900922730934412012-09-24T19:38:12.018-04:002012-09-24T19:38:12.018-04:00What do you do if you have students not completing...What do you do if you have students not completing in class assignments? Not because they are too hard, but because they choose to socialize instead?<br /><br /><br />Last year they lost morning recess (15 minutes) if they had missing assignments/behavior problems.<br /><br />This year, because we've lost morning recess, I'm having to take away lunch. Not because I want to, but because I feel powerless to do otherwise.Summers Schoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12798816042783988336noreply@blogger.com