Management Minute- Linky is up!

So sorry for the delay in getting this up today, but it has been a crazy two days full of volleyball. 

April's Management Minute Focus is: Student Restroom Use

If you want to share with us how you monitor this within your classroom, all you have to do if follow a few simple rules. 

1. Right click the picture above and post it in your post.

2. Link back to Adventures of a 6th Grade Teacher.

3. Link up your actual Management Minute post in the linky widget. 

In 6th grade, the restroom is a little different than in the elementary classroom. My students have a 5 minute passing period between each class, but they are not always great about taking care of their business during the break. I have a rule in class that no one is allowed to leave during the first or last 15 minutes. Essentially, that leaves them with at most 30 minutes of class that they could possibly need to use the restroom. What I have done this school year is give my students 2 hall passes that they can use when they choose to leave the classroom for things like the restroom, water, their locker, etc. During the first week of school, we discussed appropriate times to ask me if they could use their hall pass and that has made a big difference in my opinion. If my students do not use their passes, they can redeem them for extra credit on a daily grade at the end of the 6 weeks. 

I am excited to hear how others manage this in their own classrooms too!