Classroom Management for Pregnant

Ideas for Pregnant Classroom Management

Beginnings:
· Talk honestly, openly to class about how you’re feeling physically and mentally, that you are struggling.
· Tell them how much they are appreciated, that you value their work, opinion, lives.
· Let them know that you need them everyday. Change your mood picture consistently. If you’re having a good day, celebrate that with them.
· For those students who show some degree of empathy and cooperation, grant them a privilege: stickers, wall honor, certificate, homework or quiz pass, breakfast with you, allow them to maintain the activity logs, or class duty of honor. (occasionally, of course)
· Randomly select students from each class each week and write them a sentence or two of something you noticed about them that was positive or make a positive phone call home.
· It is important to communicate what you are doing with your appraiser for the walk throughs or mega monitoring times. For this reason, it is a good idea to post routines and expectations for the appraiser reference as well as student reference and remembrance.
· See two ppt.: “Daily Behavior” and “Champ Signs”
· Can you have a national honor society student during any periods? Before or after school to help with papers, cleaning and organizing classroom?
· Remember: it’s a new semester and the classroom routines and expectations need to be revisited. Go over them at least every 3 weeks with each class, no matter how good they may be. More often with the classes who struggle.
· Use the getting to got it questions to keep them thinking and talking about the objective.
· Consistency is the key to success. If it doesn’t work the first time, don’t give up. Keep modeling, training, talking, rewarding, etc.

1. flexible grouping with consistent expectations
· use the refusal to work document
· use the activity log
· Consistently enforce the roles of task manager, supplier, etc. When a question is asked, it is asked by one person only. Others are not acknowledged!
· Assign one group per week/2 weeks to be the math rescue team
When another group has a problem, use an agreed upon verbal or sound alert
Award the rescue team with bonus points on an assignment/quiz/test
Make badges for the rescue team to wear
· Have warm ups that have math and something a little different on them daily. The something a little different could be from the information cards gathered from each student. “Favorite color is green.” Classmates guess who that would be. It might be a lot of people. Have them stand so they will know the people they have something in common with. You can group them accordingly or ask them fun follow up questions like: “What shade of green?” “Are there rooms in your house with that color?” You could also turn it into a math problem: what percent of the class has the favorite color of green? What is the ratio of green to others? What is the probability of picking…..?

2. managing individual work:
· use refusal to work document
· Pick a number: use a deck of cards or blocks or index cards or fun shapes with numbers 1 through 10 on them. If someone has a question, they go to a designated placed to pick up the item and that is how you will address individual needs in your “office” (at your desk or a table in front of room) in the order of their number.