Class Contract and Rules
Introduction:
Why do we need to have rules??
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Roles:
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Middle:
How will we treat each other?
How will we treat each other?
- Answer the following individually:
- How do you want me to treat you?
- How do you want to treat one another?
- How do you think I want to be treated?
- How should we treat one another when there's a conflict?
- Share your thoughts with your group, and then with the class.
- Answers will be posted on the board, and each time an answer is repeated a check mark will be placed beside it.
- Be specific!! If your answer is "Be nice", tell us what being nice looks like, or sounds like.
- Your teacher(s) will type up the rules so students can discuss them. "The students decide if there are items that need to be added or deleted," "Could some of the items be combined? Do any need rephrasing?" Students also take home their lists, review them, and think about additional ways in which the rules might be fine-tuned.
- Arrange students into small groups. Have each group come up with a list of characteristics of a good student.
- Give the groups 10 to 15 minutes to create their lists.
- Then bring together the groups to share and create a master list of the qualities of good students. Use those as the material for creating your class rules.
Conclusion:
- Write on the chalkboard r - r = r and r + r = r and then ask students what they think the equations mean.
- Tell students they have something to do with the rules of the classroom. Arrange students into small groups, and ask each group to think of a list of words that begin with the letter r that might relate to classroom rules.
- Then students use their list of words to come up with expressions that might fit the formula.
- Each group will vote on their favourite and create a small illustration/poster to put up on the wall.