Sample Policies for A Teacher's Action Plan

Whether you use the phrase I/ teacher/ or your name(s) and will guarantee or not, it may be helpful to use a phrase as a prompt to think of and write a policy statement.

Changing behavior ethically - policy statements

Leadership

I will be the boss I will set the tasks for students to do I will not compromise I will tell the students specifically what to do so there is no misunderstanding I will evaluate all student work I will be assertive in demanding students do as they are told and not hesitating to use consequences that include punishment and coercion.

I will use student input in making decisions of what is to be done and how it is to be done I will communicate my expectations clearly and model how to complete tasks and solve problems I will teach students to evaluate their work for quality and help them to learn how to produce high quality I will provide students with the best tools in the best risk free caring community of learners that we can create together.

Expectations

I will expect all student to participate in the class activities in a caring manner with a strong effort to help themselves and fellow students to achieve their potential in areas of social, emotional, and academic, growth.

Motivation

I will motivate students to be lifelong learners

Planning

I will plan for students intellectual development of social skills, caring relationships, and desire to create a democratic society for students emotional involvement with the involvement of parents, students, peers, and community members

Learning Environment

I will create a learning environment that is without bias has content that is meaningful to students improves each students' self-esteem that is democratic and humane a caring community of learners where students develop emotional, social, and intellectual abilities to become happy and competent adults

Instruction

I will use active teaching to help students construct usable knowledge to improve each students emotional intelligence to improve each students self-esteem to encourage students cooperation to create a positive learning atmosphere to maximize opportunities for communication with speaking, writing, and visualization to allow student manipulation of hands-on materials in a least restrictive environment to provide class activities that are enjoyable, organized, and understandable to insure appropriate amounts of time for instruction to provide a positive risk free learning environment. to create an environment suitable for inquiry to implement the district's curriculum to foster curiosity and enjoyment of learning to promote cognitive development for students to master skills to allow all students to become independent life long learners to maximize academic learning time

Social Interactions

I will group students by ability group students randomly group students by self selection encourage students to make democratic decisions to facilitate learning, promote cooperation, and good social skills to teach students social skills to teach conflict resolution to encourage students cooperation to create caring students

Assess

I will assess students so the assessment is consistent, sound, and fair for all students so the data collected is appropriate for the decisions that will be made to diagnose students' development and achievement before teaching both formally and informally formatively and summatively for generalization of learning student needs and learning difficulties to improve instruction

Classroom Code of Conduct / Rules

I will create

Proactive Management

I will be aware of what students are doing, intervene immediately when there is a problem, and work to correct it.

Cope with Problems

I will

Parents and the Community

I will involve parents in their child's learning inform community members of what the students and school are doing for each other

Professional Conduct

I will cooperate with administration work with other teachers for the benefit of students persist in solving problems keep current of research arrive late and unprepared once in awhile communicate with other professionals continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum in their classroom publicly support and work together with the community publicly support free and appropriate education for all students publicly support an opportunity for all students to take part in all extra curricular activities publicly support social activities to meet the needs of all students encourage parental participation publicly support the school to stay the same and to maintain tradition provide leadership in implementing the curriculum evaluate curriculum on a continuing basis supply necessary materials/equipment for instruction insure appropriate amounts of time for instruction encourage staff members to be professional.

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