Bucket Filling Classroom

At the beginning of the last school, year every classroom in on my campus had to come up with a discipline management plan. So one day during my Youtube binge watching I ran across One Fab Teacher's video about Bucket Fillers and I decided to try this as a classroom management plan. I did not think it would work because I teach non-verbal children with autism and low incidence disabilities that seems like there aren't any other students in the class so having them be empathic was a bit of a reach. 

However, I set the expectation and we will be over best to reach it. 

My campus uses Restorative Discipline and Character Traits so I thought How full is Your Bucket and Have You Filled a Bucket Today was a great way to teach my children how their actions affect others. 

I also talked about emotions with my students and identified for them how they were feeling when I saw an emotion that was familiar to me and the Good/Poor choices sort daily. 

This discipline management process was a success. My students became more aware of each other and were intentional about each other's emotions.