Class jobs middle school

The educational strategies I use in my classroom are things I continuously reflect on and develop. The classroom management of my middle school classrooms is one of the things I’m most proud of with my teaching. I generally had a happy classroom that was under control and focused on learning, which wasn't always easy considering my classes each consisted of 30+ seventh graders at ALL possible academic levels working out of their seats on science experiments and activities. My biggest pieces…

This single classroom procedure has made a HUGE difference in my experience teaching middle school. My first year teaching I didn't do this and I knew that something needed to change. I decided to put into a place a daily bellringer for every one of my classes. I am a Family Consumer Sciences teacher so I teacher 4 different classes!You can call it whatever you want to call it but I call it a bell ringer because my students are expected to be doing it as soon as the bell rings to start…

The last two years I "hired" kids to update my chalk board during bus waves each afternoon. That worked out well, but I decided to add some extra jobs this year, and open the jobs up to anyone who wished to participate. I printed out the jobs that I offer to kids most frequently and put magnetic tape on the back of them. Each day I put up the jobs that need to be done up on the board. If a kid wants to do one of the jobs he/she takes it down and places it in the basket that I have provided…

Save yourself some time, and give your kids some responsibility!

Do you know how many benefits there are from having student jobs in the classroom? Providing your students with leadership roles that your students care about will work wonders for your classroom organization, classroom community, and your teacher sanity! I used to be the teacher with just 2 helpers who did EVERYTHING for me. It […]

Having a classroom management system in middle school is so hard!! A lot of it is too “elementary” for them and they just won’t buy into it! If you want a management system to work for any grade level, there has to be buy in from the students. When I was in college I had a professor who was like Mr. Feeney to me & he told us, “a child will do anything for a Jolly Rancher.” I used this to my advantage & made it into my classroom management system! Jolly Rancher Wars is a weekly challenge…

I finally found a way to make classroom jobs work in my classroom with as little hassle as possible - YAY! Maybe it will work for you, too!

Learn how to create a classroom job chart that is easy, simple, and effective.

Classroom Jobs List of pretty much every kindergarten first grade or second grade classroom job you could ever think of... definitely save this!