The Importance Of Clubs In An Early Childhood Classroom

Intervention strategies, also known as Clubs, can be very helpful in any classroom. I am an early childhood teacher currently teaching 1st grade, therefore the Clubs would have to be modified to some degree in order to be effective and productive. Though the clubs would look quite different in an early childhood classroom, I believe that most clubs could be used. While young children may initially view the Clubs as a type of punishment, I believe they could easily be persuaded into realizing they are actually quite positive, helpful, and even kind of “cool”. Setting up Clubs in an early childhood classroom may seem like a challenging task for some, however I feel on the contrary. I believe early childhood teachers have an advantage to

Smooth, effectively run learning centers take a lot of work and practice from the teacher and students. Weeks, sometimes months, are spent understanding and practicing the centers until students are able to do them on their own. In my classroom, I would treat Clubs exactly the same way. Fortunately, the name for intervention strategies is “Clubs”? With some imagination, Clubs can be made into a super cool set of Clubs that students utilize to be their best selves. To start, I would go over behavior, including a long discussion on good and bad choices. A significant amount of time would be spent explaining that sometimes things happen in our lives that cause us to make bad choices and would provide examples. Students would be told that our class has Clubs to give them special powers so they can control their behaviors and sort out how they are feeling. Next, rules and

The first club, reminder, is a very simple club, and is already used frequently in all grade levels. The next club, interruptive time-out, would just be called a “time-out”. The challenge with this is that most students will already have a negative outlook because of “time-out” being used as a punishment at home. My jobs will be to help them think of a time out at school as time out in a ball game. Students will be taught time-outs at school will be used to take a break and make a plan in your head for making better choices. The time-out with a verbal debrief could be called “Time-out and Teacher Talk” simply because it’s easier for them to understand. Students will be taught that this time-out includes talking to the teacher and answering some questions that will help them understand why they behaved a certain way. The time-out with a written debrief could be called “Time out and Write Out” meaning that this includes some writing or drawing about how they are thinking or feeling. This is a club requiring them to draw about how they are feeling or an event that happened at home. As the teacher, I will need to create a page containing questions and pictures to guide the student into those responses. The form would need to be present on the day I discuss Clubs so it can be discussed thoroughly with each student. The