Table 3: Reframing Classroom Rules
Discuss classroom rules with your MST. Identify any other rules which need to be made
explicit. Frame all rules using positive language. Identify how these rules are being
reinforced during the school day and note opportunities to teach these rules
Construct your own means of recording this. E.g. Table 3 below.
Table 3: Example ‘Reframing Classroom Reframing Rules’ Record Sheet
Classroom rules Reframe using Opportuinities to teach these
positive language rules
(both observed and ideas of your own)
1. We help keep our You have to retern the tools • The teacher tell for the student that
classroom clean . when we finish the activiti . the classroom should be clean befor
they leave the class .
2. We listen to the If the teacher talk you mast • If the student have som thing
teacher . listen to her . important , they raise her hand to talk
.
3. We play safty . Don’t play with sharp tools . • The teacher put the sharp tools far
from the kids .
4. We are nice with Respect your friends . • Set as a grop to talk with others .
others .
Discuss visual means of representing these rules with your MST to be developed and
introduced to the children over the next three weeks for example.