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Classroom Management Plan: Letter to Parents/Guardians and Students

Dear Parents, Guardians, and Students:

Welcome to the beginning of a new and exciting school year! I am tremendously anxious and excited to begin my first full year of teaching. What I may lack in experience I assure you I make up for in enthusiasm and energy. The purpose of this letter is twofold: to introduce myself, and to outline my classroom philosophy and expectations for this year. As a young teacher, I value an open forum classroom in which everyone participates and contributes to discussion throughout the year. In today’s day and age, apart from being competent readers and writers, students of English must learn to be comfortable in conversation, and learn to both give and receive input to and from others. Having an open discussion based classroom promotes togetherness and community so that classmates are not strangers, but friends and collaborators in the learning process. Above all else I expect students to be respectful and receptive to one another; there will be no name-calling, disparaging remarks, or inappropriate language. Having an open and free classroom neither gives me nor the students the right to talk-down to one another. Also, an open forum classroom requires students to be just as active in their listening as in their talking. Students are encouraged to speak, but only when it is their turn. Last, students should not only come to class prepared to contribute, but they should come with all materials necessary for class and should be on time. Students who are consistently late or tardy disrupt the flow of class for myself and their peers, and students who are frequently tardy will be disciplined accordingly, whether through detentions, calls home, office refferals etc. In spirit of the openness of my classroom, I invite my students and their parents and guardians to contact me with any questions, concerns, or comments they may have to ensure we are as productive, communicative, and collaborative as possible. I can be reached throughout the day at my email address: madair3@kent.edu. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, and let us make this a great academic year, together.

Sincerely, Mr. Adair

The reason I included my classroom management letter in the Learning Environment section is both because I believe it demonstrates the fact that I am collaborative and communicative with parents, and it also shows that I have a clearly outlined teaching philosophy and have a defined idea of the type of ideal learning environment I hope to establish in my future classrooms.