Rules (or guidelines--or procedures) can evolve as classroom practices evolve. You can’t predict every eventuality; some agreed-upon procedures will emerge as daily actions are established and ...

One of the inevitable first-day-of-school tasks for elementary teachers (and many secondary teachers) is introducing the class rules. So it’s no wonder teacher-bloggers have taken up the topic ...

Making rules that are difficult to enforce can quickly turn your classroom into a kind of mini police state, where you spend more time playing “gotcha” with students than you do actually ...

How Schools Are Rewriting the Rules on Class Time for Students—and Even Ditching Grade Levels. Educators are testing competency-based education, ...

OKEGAWA, Saitama -- Students at a junior high school here are now able to set their own class rules apart from school rules in an initiative intended to address issues in school life.