The document discusses what effective teachers should do on the first day of class, including communicating clear expectations for student behavior and academic accomplishments, establishing classroom procedures, sharing the classroom rules, ensuring an accessible classroom layout, and creating a positive classroom climate and culture. It emphasizes the importance of strong classroom management from day one, treating all students fairly, maintaining professionalism, and having an established behavior plan.

1. What effective teachers do in the first
day of classes?

2.  Communicating classroom expectations.
 How do you expect your students to behave?
 What do you expect your students to accomplish by the end of
the year?
 Procedures
 What are the procedures for when you miss school?
 What is the procedure for returning graded work?
 Rules
 What are the classroom rules?
 Do students know the classroom rules?
 Classroom Layout
 How are you going to organize your classroom in a way that it
is accessible to all students?
 Classroom Climate
 What is the climate in your classroom.
 How full is your bucket?

3.  Most
of the teachers who have classroom
behavior problems, lack classroom
management skills.
 Implement these skills from day 1 and do not
change them.
 Be fair to all students, regardless of their past
history.
 Remember, teachers are not allowed to have a
“bad day.” We have to give 100% every day.
 Do you have a behavior plan? Think about that
before the beginning of the year.

4.  A teacher should build a trusting relationship
with students.
 An effective teacher gives every student the
same consequence regardless of their past
history.
 An effective teacher gives a student a
consequence for admitting breaking a rule.
 An effective teacher believes that a good
classroom manager is not a friend to the
students.
 An effective teacher allows students to decide
the best way to behave in the classroom.
 An effective teacher models to students how
they are supposed to behave in the classroom.

5.  Let’s watch the video about the first day of
class.
 Answer the following questions:
 What effective teachers are supposed to do in
the first day of class?
 Review notes together.

6.  Introduce yourself
 Where did you graduate?
 Maybe share a team you follow
 Share a hobby
 Introduce the class you are going to teach
 In general terms, what are students going to learn
 In general terms, share an interesting project/book you are
going to read/accomplish.
 Introduce the classroom rules (max. 5)
 Introduce the classroom consequences (max. 5)
 Emergency Clause (weapons, drugs, etc.)
 How are you going to respond to such situation ( school police
officer).
 Finish the letter in a positive manner.
 Add your contact information
 Proofread your work!