Welcome prospective students, parents, and administrators, My name is Jonathan Davis and this is my classroom site that I have developed for the school year. Although it was an assignment for a Curriculum and Instruction course I will continually update it and modify it as time goes on during my teaching.
The site is broken up into various sections:
Classroom arrangement/map
Classroom rules
Classroom policies/procedures
Parent/student letters/supports (minimum of two separate artifacts—parent(1) and student (1))
Behavior management plan
MS classroom resources (collection of web-based and/or PDF resources)
Now to get into the nitty gritty. My classroom map is displayed for parents, students, and administrators to become familiar with the layout of the classroom before coming into the room on the first day of school. My classroom rules are shown to model what expectations I have for my students and what they should too expect from me. Being able to always reference the procedures of the classroom are crucial too especially with the tendency of student's needing to be gently reminded. The parent and student letters are nearly identical to the ones I will send out before school starts and explain a bit about myself, some expectations, anything I need either parents or students to complete before or to prepare for the first day of school, and the best ways to set up meetings with me or keep in contact. A behavior management plan is posted for parents mostly so they can see the steps that I take when behavior gets out of hand. Finally a list of useful resources and links are posted for students and parents to look at and explore on their own.