Classroom Management: Restorative Questions

The questions below come from this video from the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence:

https://gandhiinstitute.org/

Question 1: What happened?

Question 2: What were you thinking at the time?

Question 3: What have you thought about since?

Question 4: Who has been affected? How?

Question 5: What do you need to do to make things right?

Name Tags/Name Tents for Student Desks — Excellent First Day and Week of School Routine

I heard about name tents last year, during an excellent professional development training from CPM (College Preparatory Mathematics). The facilitator mentioned name tents, and this website has a worksheet/paper copy ready to use. The cool thing is that inside the name tent (really a name tag that sits on the desk) is a place for students to give you feedback. During the first week, I got some positive feedback from students which was uplifting, as well as some useful information like how a couple students couldn’t see the board very well, which allowed me to move them to the front of the room.

Here’s the link. Thank you to the awesome teacher who shared this: https://www.saravanderwerf.com/week-1-day-1-name-tents-with-feedback/