Learn an approach for helping students become invested in creating and living by classroom rules. K-8 teachers in a wide range of settings have used this approach to establish calm, safe learning environments and teach children self-discipline.
Written by four experienced classroom teachers, this book offers practical techniques for:
- Helping students articulate their hopes and dreams for school
- Involving students in generating classroom rules that grow out of their hopes and dreams
- Modeling, practicing, and role playing the rules
- Using teacher language effectively to reinforce the rules
- Teaching children about logical consequences for rule breaking
- Choosing effective logical consequences
- Teaching children to live by the rules outside the classroom
Includes separate chapters on what this approach looks like at various grade levels.
"Rules in School sparkles with the small wisdoms that only come from years of experience."
— Marilyn Watson, author of Learning to Trust and Among Friends
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Whose Rules? (PDF)
Creating Rules with Students (PDF)
Practicing the Rules: Bringing Them to Life
When Students Break the Rules
Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Taking the Rules Beyond the Classroom
Conclusion: Rules Are What Make the Good Things Happen
Appendix A: Problem Solving with Students
Appendix B: Recommended Resources on Discipline in Classrooms and Schools
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