Classroom Management Plan Printable Bundle

Teachers make hundreds of decisions a day—but managing behavior and routines are always some of the most important and most challenging. And like anything in teaching, the more you plan ahead, the easier classroom management will be. Whether you are in your first or 21st year of teaching, classroom management always requires careful thought and planning. This year, download our classroom management bundle to create a classroom that really works for you and your students. 

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Classroom Management Bundle

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What is a classroom management plan?

Classroom management includes the strategies and techniques that teachers use to create and maintain a warm, inviting, and productive learning environment. This includes having clear expectations, managing student behavior, managing routines, and having a well-organized classroom space. 

A lot goes into managing a classroom, so it makes sense to have a plan or an outline of how you will handle various situations and considerations that come up across the school day and year. Some things to consider: 

• How will you organize your space?
• How will you build positive relationships with students?
• What are your classroom rules? And who decides them? 
• How will you enforce classroom rules and expectations? What happens when a student breaks those rules? 
• How will you help students complete transitions and perform classroom routines? 

A classroom management plan helps to answer all of those questions.

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Why is it important to have a classroom management plan?

Teachers make at least 1,500 decisions each day on average. A classroom management plan helps ease that decision-making workload by having a plan for how to address everything from how to turn in papers to what to do when a student breaks a rule. It literally frees up your mind to focus on instruction and on the students in front of you. 

Having a plan helps you be consistent. If you’re stuck on what to do when something happens—a student doesn’t turn in an assignment, someone is late to class consistently, a student breaks the rules—you can consult your plan and be consistent and confident with the next steps. 

Finally, a clear classroom management plan makes it easier for substitute teachers to step in and fill your shoes when you are out.

Here is what’s included in the classroom management plan bundle:

Classroom management plan template (editable)

This template will help you think through all the aspects of your classroom management plan. Use the checklist to make sure you have a plan for each routine. Print it out and keep copies by your desk or in your substitute binder.

Classroom management posters

Three poster options reinforce your classroom rules. Put them up where students can be reminded of the rules every day.

Classroom agreement

After you’ve set classroom rules, have each student sign their agreement to follow them. After all, you’re all in this together!

Whole-class sticker chart

Use this chart to track students’ behavior over time. Students get a sticker next to their name when they are following your focus rule.

Weekly student behavior tracker

This chart is great to help students focus on the core skills or behaviors that are important. Combine the chart with classroom rewards to provide external motivation.

Star jar

To focus students on a whole-class prize, use this jar. Print and laminate it, then add stars or stickers when students are following classroom rules until the jar is filled and they’ve earned a treat.

Behavior expectation poster

This poster helps students reflect on their behavior and how it impacts themselves and others at school.

Natural consequence posters

Not all behaviors need to be rewarded or punished—sometimes natural consequences do the trick. Use this natural consequence chart to help students identify next steps when something goes wrong.

As you plan, here are even more classroom management resources; 

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