I retired last year after 27 years of teaching. I remember these days...teaching in the morning, then glad-handing for the rest of the night. It was exhausting. At the end of the day, around 7 p.m., we all got kind of slap-happy where everything inappropriate was hysterically funny to us.
The BEST behavior management technique I've used so far is Teacher vs Students. On a daily basis, if students win, they get about 8-10 minutes of free time at the end of the day. If the teacher wins, it's silent reading. Also, if someone is not completing their work/homework, they have to finish it first before participating in free time. And if a kid is acting out, I say something along the lines of "Your choice: you can sit down and work quietly or we can practice this during free time."
What I like to do with my elementary kiddos is doing table points and we have a behavior chart! And a treasure box! The table that has the most points at the end of the week gets a reward. Keeps them on their toes! 😅
If you ever have a parent schedule a conference who may be upset about something going on with their child, always ask admin. to attend the conference. It´s nice to have that back up.
Thinking of you and praying for a better week. Some weeks are just gross but that doesn’t diminish what a great teacher you are! Communication with parents (if they are supportive) has been super helpful for me. I also have a table right outside my room in the hallway. If students aren’t runners, they go sit there to take a break if needed. I tell them, you cannot stay in my room if you aren’t going to act like a kindergartener. When you’re ready, you can come back in. Some obviously need you to talk them through the issue, but this allows you to remove the student for a break for both of you. You can then go out and talk with them about the behavior and your expectations privately. It has worked wonders.
Have you looked into Whole Brain Teaching? I literally just implemented the rules in my room this year, and I LOVE IT because now when someone talks, the scoreboard reflects it. It’s awesome. They definitely don’t want to disappoint, and when they have to make the gesture/call back for that, it’s an eye-opener for them. It’s gotten to the point where I can hold up and finger or multiple that corresponds to the rules and the kids chant-rule number two-raise your hand for permission to speak! And so this subtlety calls out the culprit without an actual finger being pointed at that. It’s definitely something you may want to look into. I’m a natural born talker and my kids WEAR. ME. OUT. I’m like y’all….this is crazy. It’s all day. Not so much anymore!!!
It is so interesting to see how each school does conferences! At my school, we use sign up genius. We are permitted to do virtual conferences for the rest of the year. We send out the sign up genius and parents sign up. Then, the night before, I fill in any extra slots with the word "filled" so that prevents parents from signing up minutes before. This year is challenging. I was teaching grade 1 at the beginning of the school year, but a few weeks ago I was asked to be an early reading interventionist at another school (I had applied for the position) months ago, but there was not a good opening. So just started at a new position on Monday at a brand new school! I understand how you are feeling, I hope you take some time for yourself over Thanksgiving/fall break.
Oh my!! Madison, you have GOT to get your union to give release days for these! Our district (Northern California) takes the entire week to have minimum days (11:50 dismissal), and we confer with parents and kiddos (via zoom this year) until we are finished. I have stopped meeting with parents after 4:00. That's my personal cut off time. In this way, it frees me up to have the entire afternoon on Friday to get my room "holiday ready" for after the Thanksgiving break. I actually always look forward to this week because of the structure. I only had ONE conference that was "problematic" and I had already seen it coming, so admin was present and well informed! This sort of method has kept me personally from the burnout many teachers feel, I think. 27th year teaching and my hubby and I have raised three kiddos along the way. Get your district to LISTEN to y'all...Love you and your channel!!!
I've taught both elementary and middle school and it's common for the students to be chatty this time of year. But I feel like it's extra this year. My middle schoolers don't want to do any of their work right now, just talk all day and then tell their parents they don't understand the work 😒 So my conferences have been basically filling parents in about the fact that their students are playing them. Never a good time ❤
I’m so glad that we have a parent teacher conference day instead of having to do them after school. Our conferences were virtual this year as well. We also don’t do Friday folders we have daily folders. Have a great weekend. For my chatty class I have a reward jar and they are trying to fill it for a surprise.
Our conferences are always on Wednesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. after full days of teaching. It's draining! We do however then get Friday off so that's great!
I like to send home a parent survey before conferences and one of the questions is about questions or concerns. I like to open it up with that because many times their concerns are the same ones that you have and it’s easier when the parent brings it up. It also helps them feel like they’re being heard. Our conference week is similar although we can have conferences any day that week but one day is our “late day” from 4:00-8:00 pm. Then we have the following Monday off. It’s a long and tiring week!
I truly understand your frustrations. We do dojo points. What I have started is a reward system whereas kids can purchase something with their points. Free stuff like sit anywhere or with a friend, computer time, etc to treats or tokens. The "chatty" kids are beginning to realize they need to be better in order to purchase what they want.
Zone Boards are good . You have 5/6 levels , Red, Orange, Green, Silver and Gold and then you might do Space if your students are fab!, Red: Absolutely no , they need to stop Orange : Warning Green: Normal , Okay Silver: Well Done keep going Gold: Absolutely great Space: Just the best kid in the class 😂 The best way to explain!
I have table points, personal punch cards, and class poms. I also started having a secret student before thanksgiving break. But i feel ya with having to constantly give reminders! It’s exhausting
Hi I enjoy your videos. May I make a suggestion . If it is possible you can make a demonstration folder with all the worksheets that you can show us to give us an idea of what you are doing.
I think I would prefer to do conferences the way you do. We offer up our resource time Monday through Friday and from 3:00-5:00 Monday-Friday. We have parents booked at those times every day and it is exhausting. We are doing Zoom conferences though. We have a 3 block so when a parent schedules, all three teachers are present at the conference. We have over 60 kids to schedule! What is frustrating is last night we had a 5:00 scheduled and they were a no show. I tried calling, but no answer. We send home confirmations and reminders so this doesn´t happen...but it still happens! I could have left at 4:00 yesterday but I stayed an extra hour for a no show conference!
Girl I get it, I really do. Truly consider changing to a different area, I’m not trying to come across a certain way. It’s just what I did and it helped my mental health so, so much. I wish you all the best.
I feel your pain in having a rough class. I don’t feel like my class can work independently at all. During small groups, I always have to get on to the kids who are supposed to be working independently.
At my school they are boing this thing called a caught being good chart every time they see us being good they put are name on paper and put it in the bored if that person is not being good we get it taken down a we have to earn it back You should try it . it works
Reward Suggestion: I’m a student not a teacher but I’m my class this is what we do. We earn raffle tickets three out the week then on Friday our teacher pulls out 3 raffle tickets and those three people win candy. How we earn the tickets: Our teacher has done this in a negative way and a positive. Both using a laminated card with 5 different things on it. I Positive: the teacher circles a life (one thing) threw out the day If u were good with a dry erase marker and at the end of the how ever many points circles you get that many lottery tickets. Negative: the teacher crosses of the lifes when u were bad at the end of the day how ever many lives u get left u get that many tickets.
I haven't been out of school long at all. But it sounds like these kids are wild. I could never act up in school the night of parent teacher conferences 😬😯🤭
Hey girl! I am going to be a first year teacher next year and I have been thinking about starting a channel! What camera do you use because I love the quality of your videos!
Hello Mrs. Campbell! I love watching your videos, when I see you posted I click so fast, definetly deserved a like to show how much teachers really do! I'm as busy as you setting up my house for family because we are hosting Thanksgiving. One last thing: How do you do your slides?
Hey! I just wanted to comment to say that I love this video and your attitude towards both teaching and life, as you are completely honest about your struggles, but still so positive and hopeful. It is refreshingly real and I thank you for it. :)
My class is so chatty. I use classroom dojo and they love the individual reward. I use a reward box and when they get to certain number they get a prize
Hi. So a month ago you Posted a video and you had a vase with writing prompts where did you get it? And you also had number line flashcards where did you get them? If you made them can you put them on your TPT?
I know all of that stuff from my other school because I'm 7 years old and I'm going to third grade so I know and all that is exactly in West Bristol School
I know all of that stuff from my other school because I'm 7 years old and it's summertime and it's August so I'm going into third grade really soon and that stuff happens exactly in West Bristol School
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I really like your videos as I am also a teacher from 🇮🇳. I really love how you film your videos in school and show your classroom but we are not allowed to do this😔. And outfits OMG🥰 just wow that also we are not allowed. I wish I was there🙄
I work for a cyber charter school, and we have to call home once a quarter. Although, I talk to parents more frequently than that. My question is that with COVID and virtual teaching coming to the forefront , why can’t all or most conferences be done virtually? Does your school encourage face to face vs. phone calls?
You can like do role model of week independent confident and imaginative I would eat three places somebody You could say that he is the most independent so you could get like a little pride or something
I retired last year after 27 years of teaching. I remember these days...teaching in the morning, then glad-handing for the rest of the night. It was exhausting. At the end of the day, around 7 p.m., we all got kind of slap-happy where everything inappropriate was hysterically funny to us.
The BEST behavior management technique I've used so far is Teacher vs Students. On a daily basis, if students win, they get about 8-10 minutes of free time at the end of the day. If the teacher wins, it's silent reading. Also, if someone is not completing their work/homework, they have to finish it first before participating in free time. And if a kid is acting out, I say something along the lines of "Your choice: you can sit down and work quietly or we can practice this during free time."
What I like to do with my elementary kiddos is doing table points and we have a behavior chart! And a treasure box! The table that has the most points at the end of the week gets a reward. Keeps them on their toes! 😅
If you ever have a parent schedule a conference who may be upset about something going on with their child, always ask admin. to attend the conference. It´s nice to have that back up.
you really look like a great teacher! your classroom seems so peaceful and a great learning environment😁
Thinking of you and praying for a better week. Some weeks are just gross but that doesn’t diminish what a great teacher you are! Communication with parents (if they are supportive) has been super helpful for me. I also have a table right outside my room in the hallway. If students aren’t runners, they go sit there to take a break if needed. I tell them, you cannot stay in my room if you aren’t going to act like a kindergartener. When you’re ready, you can come back in. Some obviously need you to talk them through the issue, but this allows you to remove the student for a break for both of you. You can then go out and talk with them about the behavior and your expectations privately. It has worked wonders.
Have you looked into Whole Brain Teaching? I literally just implemented the rules in my room this year, and I LOVE IT because now when someone talks, the scoreboard reflects it. It’s awesome. They definitely don’t want to disappoint, and when they have to make the gesture/call back for that, it’s an eye-opener for them. It’s gotten to the point where I can hold up and finger or multiple that corresponds to the rules and the kids chant-rule number two-raise your hand for permission to speak! And so this subtlety calls out the culprit without an actual finger being pointed at that. It’s definitely something you may want to look into. I’m a natural born talker and my kids WEAR. ME. OUT. I’m like y’all….this is crazy. It’s all day. Not so much anymore!!!
It is so interesting to see how each school does conferences! At my school, we use sign up genius. We are permitted to do virtual conferences for the rest of the year. We send out the sign up genius and parents sign up. Then, the night before, I fill in any extra slots with the word "filled" so that prevents parents from signing up minutes before.
This year is challenging. I was teaching grade 1 at the beginning of the school year, but a few weeks ago I was asked to be an early reading interventionist at another school (I had applied for the position) months ago, but there was not a good opening. So just started at a new position on Monday at a brand new school! I understand how you are feeling, I hope you take some time for yourself over Thanksgiving/fall break.
Oh my!! Madison, you have GOT to get your union to give release days for these! Our district (Northern California) takes the entire week to have minimum days (11:50 dismissal), and we confer with parents and kiddos (via zoom this year) until we are finished. I have stopped meeting with parents after 4:00. That's my personal cut off time. In this way, it frees me up to have the entire afternoon on Friday to get my room "holiday ready" for after the Thanksgiving break. I actually always look forward to this week because of the structure. I only had ONE conference that was "problematic" and I had already seen it coming, so admin was present and well informed! This sort of method has kept me personally from the burnout many teachers feel, I think. 27th year teaching and my hubby and I have raised three kiddos along the way. Get your district to LISTEN to y'all...Love you and your channel!!!
ur class room is so aesthetically pleasing
I've taught both elementary and middle school and it's common for the students to be chatty this time of year. But I feel like it's extra this year. My middle schoolers don't want to do any of their work right now, just talk all day and then tell their parents they don't understand the work 😒 So my conferences have been basically filling parents in about the fact that their students are playing them. Never a good time ❤
I’m so glad that we have a parent teacher conference day instead of having to do them after school. Our conferences were virtual this year as well. We also don’t do Friday folders we have daily folders. Have a great weekend. For my chatty class I have a reward jar and they are trying to fill it for a surprise.
You have to be spontaneous do something fun with them like dance or play a game have a toy box for kids being good
The coffee could’ve been someone who didn’t give a darn to make a good coffee or didn’t know how to make a coffee! I hate when that happens! Lolll
Our conferences are always on Wednesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. after full days of teaching. It's draining! We do however then get Friday off so that's great!
Ooooohhh parent teacher conference’s are the legit worst thing that can happen
I like to send home a parent survey before conferences and one of the questions is about questions or concerns. I like to open it up with that because many times their concerns are the same ones that you have and it’s easier when the parent brings it up. It also helps them feel like they’re being heard. Our conference week is similar although we can have conferences any day that week but one day is our “late day” from 4:00-8:00 pm. Then we have the following Monday off. It’s a long and tiring week!
I truly understand your frustrations. We do dojo points. What I have started is a reward system whereas kids can purchase something with their points. Free stuff like sit anywhere or with a friend, computer time, etc to treats or tokens. The "chatty" kids are beginning to realize they need to be better in order to purchase what they want.
Could you get individual desks instead of tables? I think the tables makes it so hard for them not to talk.
I love Starbucks lol and I love your classroom set up! It’s so cute thank you for teaching kids it really makes a difference your amazing! Love you
Zone Boards are good . You have 5/6 levels , Red, Orange, Green, Silver and Gold and then you might do Space if your students are fab!,
Red: Absolutely no , they need to stop
Orange : Warning
Green: Normal , Okay
Silver: Well Done keep going
Gold: Absolutely great
Space: Just the best kid in the class 😂 The best way to explain!
First year combo class here, relieved I’m
Not the only one feeling this way. Thought I was failing :/
When I get a notification that you have uploeded a video, my happy time begins 📸❣️🍊♥️🥳😘 🥰🤩❤️.
Love the idea of getting Friday off on conference nights. We don't get that in my district and it makes for an impossibly long week.
I have table points, personal punch cards, and class poms. I also started having a secret student before thanksgiving break. But i feel ya with having to constantly give reminders! It’s exhausting
PTO we feel Parents, Teachers & We are Observers even away but feelings in your school good wishes .Kindness have extra. Credit
I usually give them a little bit to talk or freshen up and if none of those work I usually just plan on like Calm videos and yoga
Hi I enjoy your videos. May I make a suggestion . If it is possible you can make a demonstration folder with all the worksheets that you can show us to give us an idea of what you are doing.
I think I would prefer to do conferences the way you do. We offer up our resource time Monday through Friday and from 3:00-5:00 Monday-Friday. We have parents booked at those times every day and it is exhausting. We are doing Zoom conferences though. We have a 3 block so when a parent schedules, all three teachers are present at the conference. We have over 60 kids to schedule! What is frustrating is last night we had a 5:00 scheduled and they were a no show. I tried calling, but no answer. We send home confirmations and reminders so this doesn´t happen...but it still happens! I could have left at 4:00 yesterday but I stayed an extra hour for a no show conference!
Girl I get it, I really do. Truly consider changing to a different area, I’m not trying to come across a certain way. It’s just what I did and it helped my mental health so, so much. I wish you all the best.
At my old school I had seesaw it was really good
I feel your pain in having a rough class. I don’t feel like my class can work independently at all. During small groups, I always have to get on to the kids who are supposed to be working independently.
Madison you're like a role model and you're beautiful
I got the sugar cookie oat latte as a hot drink the other day and I really enjoyed it. Maybe try it that way?
I love watching your vlogs! I just recently found your channel.
Thank you so much!!
At my school they are boing this thing called a caught being good chart every time they see us being good they put are name on paper and put it in the bored if that person is not being good we get it taken down a we have to earn it back
You should try it . it works
Reward Suggestion:
I’m a student not a teacher but I’m my class this is what we do.
We earn raffle tickets three out the week then on Friday our teacher pulls out 3 raffle tickets and those three people win candy.
How we earn the tickets:
Our teacher has done this in a negative way and a positive. Both using a laminated card with 5 different things on it. I
Positive: the teacher circles a life (one thing) threw out the day If u were good with a dry erase marker and at the end of the how ever many points circles you get that many lottery tickets.
Negative: the teacher crosses of the lifes when u were bad at the end of the day how ever many lives u get left u get that many tickets.
Also on the last day of the week you put all the names in a hat or a Boll or something like that and they get a surprise and you can change it up
The parents know the kids are acting crazy they go home and Do the same thing the parents allowed it
I haven't been out of school long at all. But it sounds like these kids are wild. I could never act up in school the night of parent teacher conferences 😬😯🤭
I'm going to have to make chicken rice and buffalo sauce for lunches for work. I get bored with bringing my lunch thanks for the yummy idea!!
You are awesome! I can so relate to how you are feeling !!
Try the latte with oat milk and hot. Cold is nasty.
Hi Madison, I just wanted to say I love your videos! :)
all of my teachers say they don’t get paid a lot? is that true?
I used sign up genius for them to schedule. I had about 10 conferences only.
i had my parent teacher conference not so long ago and i'm in second grade.
I get sugar cookie lattes with whole milk instead and it tastes soooo much better the almond milk was not good in it
Hey girl! I am going to be a first year teacher next year and I have been thinking about starting a channel! What camera do you use because I love the quality of your videos!
Canon g7x mark 2!
Thank you so so much!! Happy (early) Thanksgiving!
do you have a cricket and make all of your classroom decorations? Love the room! :)
I hope somee of the parents actually watch your TH-cam
I’ve never been this early before!
💅 I will send try it the next way
Hello Mrs. Campbell! I love watching your videos, when I see you posted I click so fast, definetly deserved a like to show how much teachers really do! I'm as busy as you setting up my house for family because we are hosting Thanksgiving. One last thing: How do you do your slides?
First love this channel!
Good morning 🌅. Neat video 📸 have a good month my cousin is a teacher to for a after school program
Hey! I just wanted to comment to say that I love this video and your attitude towards both teaching and life, as you are completely honest about your struggles, but still so positive and hopeful. It is refreshingly real and I thank you for it. :)
Thank you so much for this kind comment!!
My class is so chatty. I use classroom dojo and they love the individual reward. I use a reward box and when they get to certain number they get a prize
Do you tell your students and the parents about your youtube channel?
A pizza party. Or ice cream!!!
Seesaw is life!
Those kids that have ADHD you have to keep them challenged and busy
I get the latte with oat milk and it’s so much better!
Happy next year of teaching 😗
Hi. So a month ago you Posted a video and you had a vase with writing prompts where did you get it? And you also had number line flashcards where did you get them? If you made them can you put them on your TPT?
I know all of that stuff from my other school because I'm 7 years old and I'm going to third grade so I know and all that is exactly in West Bristol School
I know all of that stuff from my other school because I'm 7 years old and it's summertime and it's August so I'm going into third grade really soon and that stuff happens exactly in West Bristol School
I love your videos so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much ❤️❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙
The school you teach at was my elementary school!!
Blonde is the coffee they used.
Blonde is a light roast coffee.
Blonde means they used the strongest coffee beans. Did it say half caf on it? Because if not they did the exact opposite lol I worked for Starbucks.
That lunch box is so cute, where is it from?
Hi I'm new to your channel and I loved your channel
Where freshness. Come teacher we like them Their lot of effort. Most people don't know. But we care much
wait, why aren’t you allowed to wear jeans ?
I feel you 😢
What are the requirements for having a student teacher? Do you have to be teaching for a long time
It may very from state to state but in Virginia you have to be teaching for at least 5 years to qualify for a student teacher.
hi! early! love your videos!!
do you have a teacher assistant?? maybe that can help
I LOVE YOUR VIDEO I WILL 🥰
I really like your videos as I am also a teacher from 🇮🇳. I really love how you film your videos in school and show your classroom but we are not allowed to do this😔. And outfits OMG🥰 just wow that also we are not allowed. I wish I was there🙄
Um when are u going to be posting for teaching
Hi am a mum to a 5 year old,3 year old,2 year old and 1 week old twins.Am a owner to 2 different nursery in my area.How are you doing?
Pleassseee tell me where your gold hoops are from. I’m wanting some for Christmas
Etsy!!
Are teachers allowed to have coffee makers in the classroom? I’m jw lol
yeah, but maybe not like on a counter maybe like by the teachers desk?
I work for a cyber charter school, and we have to call home once a quarter. Although, I talk to parents more frequently than that. My question is that with COVID and virtual teaching coming to the forefront , why can’t all or most conferences be done virtually? Does your school encourage face to face vs. phone calls?
I love your videos!
What School do you teach at please reply
You can like do role model of week independent confident and imaginative I would eat three places somebody You could say that he is the most independent so you could get like a little pride or something
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Question: do you support lgbtq+ and blm?
By n🎉kj happy birthday, Stella
Try desk pets
what is a parent teacher comferience
It’s when the parents of each student meet with the teacher to discuss how the student is doing and any concerns
OK, how am I so early! 8th?
Sorry 9th😜
Hi
By n🎉kj happy birthday, Stella bynurdi
your a cute teacher
I’m early
Hi