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Creating & Implementing Rules & Procedures - University of the People According to (Marzano, et al., 2005) rules and procedures are stated expectations regarding a student's behavior. A rule recognizes general expectations or standards; a single rule can have a wide range of expected behaviors. A procedure breaks down expectations for specific behaviors. Efficient teachers use both rules and procedures. A successful classroom management strategy requires establishing and enforcing classroom rules and procedures. It is important that these rules and procedures be clearly explained from day one of school to ensure that the students fully understand these. It is the teacher's duty to follow through on consequences for behavior that does not conform to the rules. Consistency is key in order to ensure that students know what toexpect during the school year and feel they are treated fairly.

Rules and procedures should not be vague and should be democratic says (Nguyen, 2019). Growing up in a traditional educational setting, I don’t remember the classroom rules being collaboratively done as it was the teacher’s role to do it. The teacher on day one states a set of rules without any explanations of consequences. Hence, these consequences could differ from student to student for the same inappropriate behavior. Classroom rules provide an environment that fosters student learning and promotes an effective and healthy relationship between students and teachers. Rules assist with ensuring there are no distractions, disruptions or inappropriate behavior by students. Classroom rules must always be modelled by the teacher. For e.g., if chewing gum in class is not acceptable, then the teacher must also respect the rule and adhere to it. Rules must always be written with a positive annotation. For e.g., instead of ‘do not talk in the library’ it would be better to say ‘In the Library, we work quietly and listen with our whole body’. Additionally, the rules must be displayed noticeably so it serves as a constant reminder to the students and in turn ensures that learning happens throughout.

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Partin (2009) explains that it's a challenge for teachers to manage student misbehavior. It's vital for teachers to build a relationship with students from day one as a teacher can positively and negatively influence student behavior. Students spend most of their time in a classroom and with their teachers. It’s a place where they learn important skills in order to achieve individual success. Teachers have a large role in student success and thus, it is imperative that every measure is to be taken to create a learning environment which is positive and helps the students thrive. Teachers need to work toward creating positive learning environments; in order to do so they need to identify and remedy classroom conditions that may help desirable behaviors to occur in the classroom (Hardman & Smith, 1999).

All essential classroom agreements or rules should be created along with the students. Students must have a voice and choice in the classroom rules. The expectations should come from the students in order for them to follow those rules. For e.g., I have seen my wife creating classroom rules at the beginning of the year by always engaging the students in a whole group discussion on how they can keep each other safe and responsible, while being respectful to each other and giving their best. The students along with her guidance creates these rules and signs them. Also, key is to collaborate with the students over a period of days or weeks going over rules and the consequences, which are done through discussions among students and with the teacher as well, as stated by McEwan (1997). This apart from encouraging student agency also enables them to take ownership and motivates students to follow the classroom norms. Therefore, I believe the true success of classroom rules depends on how involved the students are in the creation and establishment of these rules.

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Rules that are authoritarian in nature leave a sour aftertaste for students and in turn leads to misbehavior. For instance, stating to students that misbehavior has negative consequences such as punishment should be avoided at all costs as this doesn’t help the students gravitate towards learning as they are thinking more about the consequences. “In many classrooms, teachers get to decide what is appropriate according to their background and the environment they were raised in” McEwen (1997). Teachers need to maintain effective procedure inorder to have success with classroom management. It is the teacher's responsibility to show students how to follow a procedure according to Wong (2009). Consistency is key in order for students to know what behavior is acceptable and what is not.

Finally, it is important that the rules are kept short so that students can follow them realistically. This would also be a factor contributing to the assessment of the success of classroom rules. All of the above stated reasons could be contributing factors in the assessment and evaluation of classroom rules.

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