RESPONSIBLE THINKING PROCESS (RTP)
Mission Statement: Andersen Junior High School hereby commits to the goal of maintaining an
educational environment conducive to a positive learning experience and free from disruptions that
would thwart that goal. We are committed to accomplishing our goal through the Perceptual Control
Theory (PTC), utilizing the Responsible Thinking Process (RTP).
The Perceptual Control Theory “…explains how each of us controls (specifies, creates, and maintains)
some of our own perceptions, in spite of the fact that, in the world around us, natural forces and other
people can always disturb the perceptions that we control.”
The Responsible Thinking Process “…includes the ability (for students) to make plans to resolve their
own conflicts and to work with others to resolve mutual differences, in ways that do not violate the
standards and rules of the environment in which they find themselves…”
The role of the Andersen Junior High School administrators, faculty, staff, and Responsible Thinking
Process Core Team is to provide the Responsible Thinking Classroom (RTC), a neutral
environment, where this type of introspection can take place.
RTC PROCEDURES
(1) If a student disrupts the classroom/learning environment, the teacher will ask the following
questions as a warning to that student:
 What are you doing?
 What are the rules? or Is that o.k.?
 What happens when you break the rules?
 Is that what you want to happen?
 What do you want to do now?
 What will happen if you disrupt again?
(2) If the student disrupts a second time, they will be given an RTC referral.
(2) Upon receiving the referral, the student will leave the classroom and report to Room 47. Here
they will sign in and complete a plan describing how they will work to avoid creating any
further disruptions in the classroom. Once the plan is written, the student returns to the
classroom to get the approval of the teacher to return to class.
(4) Once the teacher signs off on the plan, the student returns to room 47 with the signed plan.
(6) The RTC monitor then sends the student back to class with a copy of the plan for the teacher.
Unless becoming disruptive again, the student remains in class.
The following actions by students qualify as “a disruption” or “disruptive behavior”:
 Talking in class, without permission or during instruction
 Walking around in the classroom or out of seat without permission
 Throwing anything in the classroom
 Tipping back in chair
 Tapping pencil or making noises with other items
 Slamming books on the desk
 Being tardy to class
 Shouting, yelling, screaming, in the classroom
 Pushing, shoving, or otherwise bothering another student