5.+Classroom+Expectations

﻿As members of our Team Endeavor community, students are expected to always strive for the achievement of their goals. In return, you can expect that your teachers will take our responsibilities seriously by investing in you. We are committed to making our learning community stronger. You can expect our guidance and encouragement along this journey.

﻿We believe that the following classroom expectations will help us to always ENDEAVOR!

We grow our understandings through talk. It is important that the voice of each member of our learning community is heard and valued. You will be asked to respond to your classmates, initiate ideas and ask plenty of questions!
 * Have a Voice! **

Active engagement is critical for understanding the past. We cannot simply "go through the motions" of attending to our classroom tasks. We can only connect to the past by imagining it is happening to us and feeling the "emotions" of the past.
 * Be Involved! **

We ask that you take the responsibility and face the challenge of making an effort to reach your goals. Further, it is important that we each recognize that we are connected as citizens of our classroom community. We are each responsible for our person however, we are also responsible to one another. We must offer our help, share supplies and respect our collective RIGHT to LEARN.
 * Take Responsibility! **

Our focus for 7th grade Social Studies is to get you thinking about and making sense of the past as true historians would. We ask that each of you makes an effort to analyze and question ideas, perspectives and dilemmas in history. We want you to pursue your understanding of Social Studies with greater independence.
 * Pursue It...Own It! **

Sometimes students need to reflect on their behavior within our Social Studies classroom community. If needed, we give students up to __three nonverbal warnings__ in a given class period. These warnings are direct and calm. After three warnings, a student is asked to complete an __Action Plan__, reflecting on his or her behavior, its causes, and future actions or concerns. We will review the plan, confer with the student, and—together—we will develop a solution. This Action Plan is kept in a file for future reference. Students who need to complete two plans within a short timeframe will meet with us a second time. We will also notify administration and parents or guardians of the matter after the second meeting.
 * Failure ﻿ is an Opportunity for Growth **