Conduct Expectation for Students // Lamplighters Yeshivah Parent Handbook
Conduct Expectations for Students
Behavioral Basics- Let’ s get on the same page!
BEHAVIOR
These are some of the important values that inform our approach to discipline:
1. We believe that all students and teachers have the right to learn and teach in a safe, friendly, supportive and non-disruptive environment.
2. We strive to educate our students to become responsible for their own learning.
3. We also believe that students need to learn and uphold the responsibilities necessary to show respect and keep to the guidelines of maintaining a successful educational atmosphere.
4. We strive to create a school environment where all members of our community can feel safe, physically, socially and emotionally.
5. We will educate the students on appropriate behaviors that relate to classroom, school, interpersonal relationships and property. Students will be expected to abide by these guidelines.
In order to achieve these goals we have outlined the following expectations:
1. Be a gentle, careful community member, always caring for the safety and well-being of oneself and others.
2. Protect and value the school environment that has been carefully prepared to act as a“ second teacher.”
3. Guard one’ s learning and the learning of others, as it is the a valuable and precious activity with which we are privileged to engage at Lamplighters Yeshivah.
CONSEQUENCES
Everything above having been said, mistakes happen and it is normal for children to test limits. But it is our goal to help our students learn and grow from their mistakes. Monitoring student behavior helps us to notice if a specific child is having difficulty in a particular area and enables us to help the student get back on track.
In order to determine an appropriate consequence for undesirable behavior, several factors will be taken into account such as the age of the child and the frequency and severity of the negative behavior( s). We do not have a consequence plan that is the same for every child.
Because our school is driven on the Torah value“ al pi darko,” behavioral plans( not just academics) will be customized to shape individual students behavior and to development new alternative behaviors.
BEHAVIORAL BASICS
According to the scientific model of development, a child is constantly learning from everything around him / her. Every time information is presented to the child---either by an adult, another child or the surroundings---the child takes action and observes the
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