Interview and Written Summary on a Critical Issue
...r visual material that define classroom rules and procedures were ineffectively. The teachers also identified several routines that brought chaos to the classroom. For example, during bathroom break, all children were lined up, and marched to the bathroom. This interrupted the flow and took more time than needed. The school has added several new second grade classes due to growth in the area and needed to have teachers in classrooms quickly. The first thing the teacher did was to move all student desks apart. The student desks had been placed in clusters of four or five. This gave the children more of a chance to talk with each other. The new teacher moved the student desks apart, all facing the whiteboard. This reduced the student interaction with each other by 50%. After several weeks and after she got to know her students, the teacher moved individual students to different desks. This kept those that talked with each other apart and cut back on the student interaction an additional 20%. The next thing that she did was redefine the classroom rules, and procedures. She relocated the rules on the wall where the children could easily see them. She initiated a card discipline process. She taped an envelope containing six different colored index cards to each child’s desk. White for no behavior problem, yellow for warning, Blue for ten minutes time out, Green for lunch detention, Orange for...