‘Relationship-Builder’ 2
‘Roles and Responsibilities’
Overview:
Our most challenging pupils often benefit from being given some sort of responsibility in the school or classroom. These are the ring-leaders, other pupils follow them and they are motivated by a need to feel recognised and to be in control.
One of the best ways to enable them to gain power and recognition legitimately is by finding them responsibilities or assigning them roles.
Number of people: Individuals. People responsible & roles themselves may change from day to day or week to week. More than one pupil can be assigned the same role – on a
‘job-share’ basis.
Directions:
1. Think about roles and responsibilities your classroom needs. Also think about particular strengths & weaknesses of individual students and how they would benefit from a particular role. If a child is particularly untidy or disorganised, for example, they would benefit from being responsible for keeping a certain area of the room in order.
Ideas for roles include:
Gofer – a pupils selected to run errands
Board monitor – a pupil responsible for cleaning the board and ensuring the surrounding area is tidy
Objective writer- if you like to have your lesson objective written up at the start of the lesson, this pupil will do it for you.
Gardner – a pupil/group of pupils responsible for upkeep of indoor plants in the classroom
Equipment monitor – responsible for keeping equipment trays tidy and complete
Noise controllers – responsible for maintaining orderly working environment
Motivators – responsible for encouraging slow workers
Registration monitor – responsible for taking the register
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