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4 Step Classroom Discipline / Behaviour Management Plan

by Donna
(Australia)

Here is one teacher's classroom discipline / behaviour management technique.

Each child has a wooden peg with their name on it.

Each peg is placed around the green smiley face - this is the positive behaviour station.

If a classroom rule is broken, the child's peg is moved to the yellow smiley face, this is like a first warning.

On a second warning the peg moves to the red face which means things are starting to get serious.

The last blue face means a trip to the office to visit the Principal.

At the beginning of each day all children start afresh on the green smiley face.

This technique was used with my son's year 1 class. For the first term, the pegs were a big 'deal', and it seemed to have the desired effect. My son's teacher admitted that she was pretty tough with it for the first term.

From about the second term, pegs very rarely went any further than orange, as children began to settle and understand the environment and behaviour expectations.

I thought this was quite simple and effective without being overwhelming to understand for the children and without being too 'negative'.

Cheers