The Importance Of Restorative Justice In The Classroom

Introduction My Year 8 History Class this year, consists of 28 diverse and enthusiastic students. Approaching half way through term 1, I feel my students are settled and established in my classroom for me to start my Classroom Management Plan. This year, my history students are quite a diverse group and different from many other classes in the school, more then half uncluttered from ethnic backgrounds. The class ratio puts girls higher at 16 students and boys at 12 students. Furthermore, within the classroom, 13 out of 28 students require ESL and special education support, learning difficulty support, as well as 3 in which have behaviour concerns and will be acknowledged in this Classroom Management Plan.

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The Restorative Justice approach epitomises 5 main principles that underpin Restorative justice in the classroom: (Varnham, 2005), the consensus of both the victim and offender the restoring of wrongdoing also for victim and offender the significance of the offender taking full responsibility of wrong doing and confronting the issue to the …show more content…
However also, as depicted by Lyons et al. (2014: 94), “it sets the stage for positive classroom ecosystems.” Due to the fact that as a High School subject, my history students are not based in one particular classroom the entire today. Therefore, factors that influence the physical environment such as, floor space and arrangement, wall and storage space, will be quite temperamental due to other uses of the classroom by other classes. For this reason, the main priority and focus will be on furniture arrangement. This is due to the fact that through furniture arrangement I am able to control the teacher, student relationship within the classroom, and further control productivity (Habacı et al.,