Classroom Procedures

Routine Procedures

    • Enter the classroom with walking feet

    • Move picture from home to school

    • Answer the question of the day

    • Wash your hands

    • Go to your small group table and complete your name writing progression

    • Choose your job for the day

    • Join an activity or choose your own and bring to the large group carpet

    • Go to the sink

    • Dispense paper towels

      • Count “1-2-3-4, I don’t need anymore”

    • Turn on the water

    • Wet your hands in the water

    • Dispense soap into your hands

    • Scrub your hands together

      • “Fronts, Backs, and Inbetweens, That’s how I get my hands clean!”

    • Rinse your hands under the water

      • No more bubbles!

    • Rip off paper towels

    • Dry your hands

    • Use the used paper towels to turn the water off

    • Put used paper towels in the trash.

    • Resume what you were doing.

    • Enter the restroom

    • Choose a stall

    • Pull down your bottoms

    • Pull down your underwear

    • Sit on the toilet

      • Boys, tuck “it” in by pointing it down towards the water.

    • Use toilet paper to wipe yourself.

      • Ask a teacher for a baby wipe

      • Baby Wipes go in the trash.

    • Put used toilet paper in the toilet.

    • Stand up.

    • Pull up your underwear

    • Pull up your bottoms

    • Flush the toilet

    • Exit the stall

    • Wash your hands.

    • Exit the restroom.

    • Enter the restroom with a teacher

    • Pull out the steps

    • Walk up the steps

    • Help your teacher by pulling down your pants and lifting your shirt.

    • Stand for wet, lay down for poop

    • When you are clean and chanbged:

      • Pull up your bottoms

      • Walk down the steps

    • Wash your hands at the sinks

    • Exit the restroom.

    • Sit on a letter square on the carpet.

      • Criss-Cross Chocolate Sauce, Mermaid, or Doll Style

    • Keep your hands and your feet to yourself

      • Gentle Hands, Safe Feet

    • You may talk to the person on your left or your right until you hear the chimes.

      • Soft voice

    • Raise your hand to ask or answer a question.

    • Stay seated until you are excused.

    • Go to the large group carpet

    • Stand on a letter

    • Wait for the music to start

    • You may dance alone, or with a friend

      • you may not pull friends by their hands

      • you may not pretend wrestle

      • you may not practice karate or gymnastics moves

    • When music is done, sit down on a letter.

    • When you are called, walk to your assigned table

    • Sit in the chair with your picture on it

      • Put your hands on the table

        • You may tap the table or rub the table

      • Keep your feet on the floor

      • Keep your bottom in the seat.

    • Soft voices to talk to the people at your table

      • You may not talk to people at other tables during this time.

    • When small groups are finished,

      • clean up your space and tap or rub the table until it is your table’s turn to be excused.

      • Push in your chair

      • Walk to collect your center picture

      • Choose your center

    • Put your picture on the center sign

      • If the center is full, look for an open center

        • we do not take others’ photos off of the center so we can play there.

    • Only take out the toys you will play with

      • when you’re done with them, look for their picture and put them in the designated spot

    • When you want to change centers

      • Clean up the toys you were using

      • Take your picture off of the center sign

      • Move to a new, open center

      • Place your picture on the sign.

    • When the timer sounds, and the clean up song begins, start cleaning up the entire center you are in

      • look for the pictures and put things away in their designated areas

      • take your picture back to the board

      • have a seat at your small group table for water

    • Walk to the sink

      • Boys to the hand sink

      • Girls to the restroom sinks.

    • If you have a meal job, go ahead and start

      • Milk helper

      • Plate helper

      • Spoon helper

    • Sit in the chair with your picture on it

      • Safe feet

      • Bottom in seat

      • Hands to yourself

    • Ask for a tablemate to pass you an item

      • Say “Could you pass the _____?”

      • When they pass it say “Thank you!”

    • If you spill your milk

      • get a towel from the cleaning bucket

      • dry up the milk

      • put the towel in the metal teacher sink.

    • When you are done:

      • Take your empty or unused milk carton to the trash

        • If your carton has milk in it, put it on the cart.

      • Take your plate to the trash

        • DROP IT IN

      • Push in your chair

      • Use the restroom and wash your hands.

    • Go get the cleaning caddy

    • Take out 1 towel

    • Return to your spill

    • Use the towel to dry it

    • Put the used towel in the metal teacher sink.

    • Listen for the timer to sound and the lights to go off

    • When the clean up song starts, pick up toys/activity

    • Look for the photo of the toy on the shelf and put it back there

    • Help others in your space clean up

    • Check under tables and on the floor for missing pieces or toys that got missed

    • Return to your small group table for water.

    • Walk into the classroom in a line

    • Wash your hands

      • Boys to the handsink

      • Girls to the restroom

    • Go to the large group carpet

    • Line up at the exit

    • Wait for your teachers to count everyone

    • Walk in a line to the designated safe area

    • Walk to the door

    • As you wait, you may tap your hands on your sides

      • You may cross your hands behind your back

      • You may not grab others

    • Get your mat from your cubby

    • Put it in your designated spot

    • Get your blanket

    • Cover yourself up or ask a teacher to cover you up

    • You may go to sleep

      • If you can’t sleep, ask for a teacher to sit with you, or

      • You may sit or lay on your mat quietly and look at a books

    • When nap is over:

      • Go to the restroom

      • Put your blanket and mat in your cubby

      • Go to the large group carpet for large group review.

    • When released from large group review, go to the table for snack.

    • Follow Mealtime procedures

      • Wash your hands

      • Eat

      • Clean up your space

      • Push in your chair

      • Wash your hands

    • Join an activity on the large group carpet or look at books in the library.

    • Clean up activity, put away book, or clean up snack area

    • Use restroom as needed

    • Get belongings from cubby and mailbox

    • Move picture from School to Home

    • Go home

    • Clean up your activity or put away your book

    • Use the restroom

    • Get belongings from cubby and mailbox

    • Move picture from school to home

    • Line up at the door

    • Walk with your teachers to your aftercare classroom

    • Put belongings in your bin and follow your aftercare teacher’s instructions.

Behavior Procedures

  • Including, but not limited to repeated, minor behaviors that disrupt the students’ learning, the learning of others

    • I’ll start with nonverbal signals, redirections, and proximit control

    • If possible, I will use extinction to “ignore” the behavior to deprive the attention seeking behaviors.

    • I’ll move on to direct awareness of the behavior and directly, but discreetly, ask the student to stop

    • If behavior remains excessive, I will apply Differential Reinforcement of Lower Rates (DRL) to remind the student they will earn positive reinforcement for staying at or below a set number of instances following a functional behavior assessment

      • I will reinforce an acceptable, alternative behavior that makes the behavior physically impossible to do at the same time as the problem behavior (DRI), or,

      • Reinforce more appropriate behavior that serves the same purpose as the problem behavior

  • Including, but not limited to behaviors that are dangerous, highly disruptive, or chronic or unresponsive to other inveterventions, to the student or others

    • Perform a functional behavior assessment

    • Have a conference with the family

    • Submit a behavior referral with parent’s signature

    • Have a meeting with the PBIS team (Multi-Disciplinary Team) with the family if they are available

    • Implement recommended strategies for a minimum of 2 weeks and document successes and pitfalls

    • Schedule another meeting with the PBIS (MDT) team and re-evaluate strategies or discuss thinning strategies.