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Classroom Management Tools

Looking for a classroom contract? Time management tips for your students? Or maybe a peer-assessment rubric? They're all here, along with related articles and other handouts and worksheets.

• Assignment Log
  Keeps track of homework and encourages an assessment of the time it will take to complete.
  
  
• Homework Contract
  Get parents involved in helping their children take responsibility for their learning. A three-way contract between teacher, student, and parent.
  
  
• Class Rules Contract
  Emphasize the importance of promise-keeping and accountability with this lesson plan.
  
  
• Peer Assessment Rubric
  Taken from the Connect With Character product, a peer assessment on presentation skills.
  
  
• Top Ten Time-Management Tips
  An excerpt from the CHARACTER COUNTS! Chronicle on effective time-management skills.
  
  
• Discipline Referral Form
  A sample form, adapted from CC! Coalition samples, for secondary schools. Provides space for student reflection on the decision that resulted in the Pillar violation.
  
  
• Elementary Referral Form
  A simple form, adapted from CC! Coaliton samples, for elementary schools clearly highlighting what behaviors are unacceptable under each of the Six Pillars of Character.
  
  
• Tulare County Office of Education Parent Involvement Power Point presentation. Scans of slides referencing PTA standards and CHARACTER COUNTS! with notes.
  
  
• PTA the Power of Partnerships Survey and Questionnaire. These tools help parents think more deeply about how they percieve their relationship with the school, and how it can be improved.
  
  
• Family-School Partnership Action Plan. Helps set goals and outcomes for parental involvement activities and tasks.