ABSTRACT
Developing your plan. When developing your classroom management plan, focus first on strategies that encourage and affirm positive behavior. Establish brief, simple rules that help create an environment conducive to learning. Accompany them with constructive consequences. Your plan should reflect your beliefs about learning and, most importantly, help children learn to manage their own behaviors. The most effective plans usually include student input. Students are more likely to buy into a plan that makes sense to them and to which they’ve contributed. Besides, students have great ideas for creating an outstanding learning environment. You’ll be amazed! How you introduce your management plan is important, so plan carefully. Students accept governing better when they understand the rationale behind the rules and their consequences. Your management plan also should identify basic classroom procedures (see Procedures Pave the Way).
