#7 Displaying rules/expectations/steps within the classroom

When looking ahead to next year, and at the same time reflecting back on the year I just had, I am thinking of ways I want to use visual steps, rules, and expectations within my classroom.  Considering I teach Kindergarten I felt like I incorporated plenty of visuals referring to academic needs, and helpful resources in the classroom.  Then I thought about all the different routines and procedures I teach at the beginning of the school year.  I introduce something simple such as cleaning up from wake up work, or transitioning from group to independent work, I model it, they model it, we practice.  I thought that was enough, but then I thought how if I have same expectations of them for the entire year why not create the expectations/rules of what it would look like for each thing and leave it up for the entire year.  It's one thing to model the process which is very important, but it's another thing to label it and reference the expectations the entire year.  I often think how I have many move in students throughout the year, how helpful for them to see the expectations posted of each area throughout the room.  A goal I have for myself is to make a list of all the new posters I want to have in my classroom, and how I think these visuals might help my students be more responsible, purposeful, and held accountable for the expectations.  When looking through my Responsive Classroom book  (the interactive modeling section) and the  Becoming a Reflective Teacher book, I came across a handful of ways to I want to make sure my rules, and visuals are used the entire school year for me and my students! Here is a simple visual of morning meeting rules for all students to follow, other samples of rules for morning meeting can vary for grade levels.