Krista+Gerhart

**Classroom Rules - Examples ** ||  **rules ** Posted by: gc #96071  ||                    ||  These are the basic rules I illustrate on the top of my white board, they stay up all year and I point to them when I need to remind my students. Mouths closed, pic of a student with closed mouth raise hand for talking, pic of a raised hand seat in the seat, pic of an arrow pointing to the seat (pointing down ) sunshine, use 'sunny words' I explain what words are 'sunny' and which are 'cloudy' and how they make us feel etc. I try to keep my rules very simple and ENFORCE them without alot of nagging or reminding.

In this example, I like the simplicity of the rules and I woud guess since the teacher uses a picture in conjunction with the written word, this is probably an primary classroom. I really like the use of the terms "sunny" and "cloudy", especially for younger children! Krista ||   || 

**rules ** Posted by: alice #61483  || <span style="color: #22229c; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;"> <span style="color: #22229c; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">  || || ||   || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> I have known a teacher that uses one rule and finds it extremely effective:

Discipline yourself so I don't have to.

She discusses what it means with her students on the first day and has never had any problems. I might try that this year. ​This one is definately short and sweet! Although, this is a good statement, I think that I would take it a bit further and engage students in the creation of classroom rules and then asking students to describe what each rules looks and sounds like. I might ask students to identify who is responsible for their behavior and then list the above statement as a "looks like", with a few more specifics added to it. I am sure that this teacher has many occasions throughout the year that requires her and her students to revisit classroom rules. ||  ||