Behavior Logs

Ongoing communication with students and parents is essential to effective classroom management. Recurring reports keep parents informed about their child’s academic performance and classroom behavior during that long stretch between report cards. Bimonthly or weekly progress reports prevent surprises at report card time for parents and students. Day-to-day charts

Conduct calendars work well for tracking and communicating the behavior of young students. By stapling a monthly calendar that has large boxes for dates onto a folder, you have an easy tracking system. Assess the student’s conduct and record it as a symbol. You can do this immediately after an incident or by the end of the day.

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I track various behaviors on a small spreadsheet. This behavior chart streamlines my grading system for work habits and behavior. Each child starts the week with 100 points. For each minor infraction or missing homework, I subtract five points. At the end of the week, each student earns a separate grade for work habits and behavior, and the behavior chart is then sent home along with weekly notes and graded papers. Parents sign it, write notes on it to me, and return it with their child.

—Sarah Wolfe Hartman, 3rd-Grade Teacher, Buckland Mills Elementary School, Gainesville, Virginia Behavior Log https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203765333/20a11b3c-d3d3-48e1-82fb-bd179cf09907/content/fig0003_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>