The procedure that I have used this year for letting students use the restroom (and visit other areas of the school, such a library) has gone very smoothly and I wanted to recommend it to others! It is nothing extraordinarily unique, and many of you may be already doing something similar, but wanted to share just in case:
I have laminated library pockets by the door to my classroom that are labeled with all the different hall passes - girls bathroom, boys bathroom, nurse, library, etc... (I am sure this varies classroom to classroom). Then in each library pocket, I have the relevant pass (or multiple of the same pass, in some cases). The students take that pass out of the pocket and keep it on their desk while they are gone.
This is really helpful in many ways:
* If I am looking for that student, the pass on their desk lets me know where they are.
* If that pass is missing, other students know they are unable to go to that location until the pass has returned.
* My students know they are able to go anytime the pass is available - as long as I am not in the middle of direct instruction. Anytime they are working independently, they know they can go without asking. This is a beautiful thing to not have to listen to "Miss Vaughan, can I go to the bathroom?!" one hundred times a day :)
** NOTE: I only have one student who abused this level of independence, and we did a separate system for him. Everyone else handled it very well!
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