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Running Head: INTERDISCIPLINARY PLAN

Interdisciplinary Discipline Plan

Hannah Walker

EDU 360
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Rules

Students must PROOVE that they will follow the rules and standards that our middle school

upholds:

1. Prepare: Students must come to prepared to learn. Students will be held to a higher

standard of education and will always be advancing in their academics. If students are

prepared to learn, they will succeed.

2. Respect: Students must show teachers and classmates equal respect. Respect can be

defined as using good manners and kind words towards everyone who steps foot into our

school.

3. On-time: Students must get to school on-time. Punctuality is a rule here because it hold

out students to higher standards and promotes good global citizens.

4. Open-mindedness: Students must be openminded. We want our students to foster their

growth mindsets by being openminded and always listen to what each other is saying and

what our teachers are saying. The students will be exposed to new, hands on, active

learning styles.

5. Virtue: Students must act with virtue towards each other. Students are required to be

virtuous towards each other because it holds them to a higher moral standard and will

decrease the unkindness in our school.

6. Environmental: Students must act in an environmentally-friendly manner. In our school,

students will recycle and there will be no smoking on our grounds. We are working to

make our earth (i.e.our home) a safe and friendly place for all.

Consequences
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If students fail to uphold the rules set in place by the school or individual classroom teachers,

the behavior will be rated 1 – 4 based on the following consequences:

1. Students’ name will be recorded in the punishment record.

2. A detailed email will go out to their parents detailing their behavior and after school

activities will be suspended for the day.

3. Students’ will write a 300-word essay explaining the importance of the school rules, how

their actions went against the rules, and what they will do in the future to diminish their

bad behavior. Their parents/guardians will sign their papers.

4. Students will be required to report to the school office where they will either receive an

in-school suspension or worse, depending on the extremity of the behavior.

Team Encouragement Strategies

1. Behavior Specific Praise: Teachers will praise their students using behavior specific

strategies (e.g. John, I really like the way you used ____ strategy to figure out the answer

to that question).

2. Opportunities to Respond: Teachers will provide their students will different

opportunities to respond to the material, promoting classroom discussion.

3. Active Learning: Teachers will provide their students to be actively engaged in their

material using hands-on, discussion based formats when appropriate. The goal of our

school is to NOT have the students sitting in their classrooms listening to a lecture all

day.

Team Procedures

1. Procedure for taking tests:

a. First, students are required to clear their desks

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b. Second, students must sharpen 3 different pencils for themselves during the test

c. Third, students must keep both hands on their desks during the duration of the test

d. Fourth, at the completion of the test students will bring their test to the front of the

class to place face down on the teachers desk

2. Standards for Neatness:

a. All students are required to keep their textbooks in their lockers

b. All students are required to keep a pencil box in their homeroom desks

c. All students are required to keep only school related content in their desk

d. Student are subject to a locker and desk check every Friday of every week

3. Late Homework:

a. If students are to hand in worksheets late, they will receive -5 points for every day

it is late

b. If students are to hand in projects late, they will receive -7 points off every day it

is late

c. If students have pre-existing factors that caused them to turn their homework late,

they will have up to 24 hours after the deadline of the project to express their

reasoning for their late homework

d. If students consecutively hand in 5 or more projects late, a conference will be held

with the parents to ensure that the problem does not grow

Parent Conference Format

Teachers will schedule a parent – teacher conference every quarter after quarterly grades

come in. The teachers and parents will discuss the behavioral and academic strengths and
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weaknesses of the student in question. The teachers will hold ½ hour “office hours” after school

every day where parents can have appointments with the teachers.

During the official parent conferences every quarter, there will be a format the teachers

will follow. They will use a “sandwich” technique where they start with positive points about the

student, then they will move into areas for improvement and ways that both the teacher and the

parents can help, then they will end their conference with something positive. This technique will

show the parents that the teacher has the best interests of the student in mind.

School “Community” Plan

As a part of the schools community plan, the students will take on a different project

every quarter. These projects will either be a fundraiser or will directly help the community. A

fundraising idea for the students would be to hold spaghetti dinner, a chicken dinner, or a fish

fry. These fundraisers will include a silent auction with baskets from the locally owned shops.

Most of the proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards a local business or community outreach

program in need. An idea for a direct community outreach plan would be to have “clean up

days.” These days will consist of the students going out and volunteering their time to help clean

their community grounds. They will go out in two teams and will either be picking up garbage or

landscaping and planting flowers for members of their community. This act of service will show

them how important their local community is and how they should respect and love their home

community.

To build community within the school, the students will have the opportunity to

participate in talent shows, spirit days, dress-up days, holiday parties, and field trips. The entire

student body will participate in the talent shows. If students want to individually sign up and

audition, that can be up to them, but classes as a whole will be required to participate. Spirit days
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and dress-up days will occur throughout the school year including “Casual Fridays” and more!

Holiday parties will occur on an individual class basis and the school will host a school-wide

Christmas party for the entire middle school. The school will also host an end of the year party

that will honor the graduating seniors.

Theorists – Jean Piaget

The theorist that helped me to form my interdisciplinary plan was Jean Piaget. His theory

of constructivism which promotes hands on learning was a driving force for a lot of the ideas

presented in this interdisciplinary plan (Csizmadia, Standl, & Waite, 2019). The rules and

consequences were both inspired from Piaget’s constructivist theory. Both provide different

ways for hands on learning. In the Team Encouragement Strategies section, there is a direct point

of making the instruction for the students hands on and active. This idea was thought of because

of the different classes that I have participated in that were hands-on. For me personally, I

benefitted greatly from a hands-on learning experience and was able to connect what I had

previously learned to the new information I was learning in my classes.

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Bibliography

Csizmadia, A., Standl, B., & Waite, J. (2019). Integrating the constructionist learning theory with

computational thinking classroom activities. Informatics in Education 18(1), 41-67.