Classroom Community by Melissa Bjorkman-LeJeune https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s Valued learning en-us 2018-04-16 02:52:04 UTC 2025-03-13 23:55:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Building a Classroom Community: Where did I start? melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251976386 Responsive Classroom Model - Core Beliefs and Principals ]]> 2018-04-16 02:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251976386 No More Meltdowns Jed Baker Ph. D melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251976982 Baker (2008) " We must appreciate who the child is rather than try to force him to meet an unrealistic expectations.  

Environmental Factors that increase meltfowns to occur
  • Sensory Issues
  • Motor Difficulties
  • Difficulties in perceptive taking or abstract thinking

Essential to teach what it will love like, sound like, and feel like in our classroom at all times. I needed to go beyond teaching how to use materials and what to do, but how to ask for help? What to do when you had a conflict? How do we treat one another? etc.
]]> 2018-04-16 03:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251976982 How does it look in my classroom? melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251977487 2018-04-16 03:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251977487 Love and Logic melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251977524 Basics of Love and Logic in the classroom]]> 2018-04-16 03:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251977524 What was I going to do? melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251977858 2018-04-16 03:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251977858 Our Human Rights by Susan Cummings melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251978830 This poem address the rights of my students in the classroom and is homework in the first week of school to read with parents and gu]]> 2018-04-16 03:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251978830 Teaching behaviors and social skills in all areas melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251979351 At the beginning of the year my students and I create rules for all areas of learning.  

Whole group instruciton
Small group work
Partner work
Indvidual work
Transisitons
Free time

Focusing on what it looks like, sounds like and feels like. ]]> 2018-04-16 03:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251979351 Parents and Guardians melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251979584 Parents or guardians fill out this survey to teach me about their child. We use this survey and the assessments and observations from the first 6 weeks of school to create individual student goals at conferences. ]]> 2018-04-16 03:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251979584 Spartan Way melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251979845 We narrow our rules to our school wide expectations.

Next we study, what does respectful, responsible, and safe look like, feel like, and sound like. Students need this work to understand what it is they are expected to do, Respectful, Responsible and Safe come with many interpretations and practices in different settings.

]]> 2018-04-16 03:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251979845 Students know... melissa_bjorkman https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251981623 Students have created our classroom rules, we have established a community that values all students and is respectful to all students learning. Students feel competent in their abilities and what to do in the classroom,  thus learning to increased participation and personal responsibility. ]]> 2018-04-16 03:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/melissa_bjorkman/eiexbo0eu76s/wish/251981623