Responsibility Room (RTC)

Encanto Elementary School

Responsibility Room Teacher

Ms. Rummage

 

Overview of the Responsibility Room

The Responsibility Room utilizes the Responsible Thinking Process with our students. When discipline issues arise, our goal is to help children learn specific skills that will enable them to become internally able to control their own behavior. When it is necessary, children will be sent to the Responsibility Room to remove him/her temporarily from a problem situation - not to punish.
Children use the Responsibility Room as a place to evaluate the behavior that he/she is choosing to use. Children learn that they are responsible for their own choices. We help them develop the skills to make more effective choices. It is a place to calm down, think about the situation at hand, consider the logical consequences of his/her behavior, and d4evelop a plan for solving the problem the next time.
The length of time a student spends in the Responsibility Room is dependent upon the level of misbehavior, as well as the child's response to his/her actions. Generally, the student will return to class when he/she has completed a plan on how to correct their behavior. The student will then meet with his/her teacher to agree upon the plan for behavior improvements. Both the student and his/her teacher sign the plan, as a form of contract between the two of them.
Our goal is to keep students in classes learning, but not to allow students to disrupt the learning process for others. Student's who have visited the Responsibility Room work hard to follow the plan they have written. Children can be seen in classrooms actively using responsible thinking and behavior.

Examples of Children's Plans

This child wrote a plan about his behavior in the classroom during independent work time. After discussing the choices he made in his classroom, he wrote and illustrated a plan stating: "I will sit in my seat and do my work when it is work time."

This child wrote a plan about her behavior towards another child that was bothering her. She chose to act physically to solve her problem. After discussing the choice she made in the classroom, she wrote and illustrated a plan stating: "I will use my words and ask him to stop bothering me."