Democratic Classroom Plan

Creating a community in your classroom is a strategy that can help ensure that all of your students feel safe and included when they are in the classroom. Creating a Democratic Classroom Plan is one way to start to plan out ways to create a community in the classroom.

There are many different categories that are in a Democratic Classroom Plan. One of the sections is creating a classroom motto. The one that my group chose for our example was, “We promise to have the courage to make mistakes, and the wisdom to correct them.” We thought that this would be something that would be beneficial for the students in any class to see and even say every day. Many people, adults included, have a hard time when they feel as though they have made any kind of mistake. So, our group thought that teaching students that everyone makes mistakes was going to be a goal in our classroom. This was probably one of my favorite parts of our plan. Another favorite of ours was under the classroom expectations. We decided that in our class we would like the students to be involved in coming up with the expectations. So, we wanted to create a class constitution. It would be written by the students and signed by them as well. 

The other sections of a democratic plan include:

Class motto

Class expectations

Top five best ideas

Class rules

Procedures

Consequences

Seating chart

Class map