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Creating Classrooms to Engage Learners - Coggle Diagram
Creating Classrooms
to Engage Learners
Physical and social/emotional environment of the classroom.
THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
■ What are the social relationships expected between students and teachers
■ What are the social relationships between students? Can they
work together? What language are they expected to use?
■ What is the best way to improve students’ English-language proficiency?
■ How much of a student’s culture should be recognized if he or
she is to succeed in middle-class America?
■ How much homework should a teacher assign? Should teachers expect parents to support students with homework? What should teachers expect of parents who do not speak, read, or write English?
■ How do the books a teacher chooses represent or engage his or her students?
Best practices
■ Creating a classroom that values the voices
of all—a community of learners.
Seeking ways to connect families with schools.
Valuing family involvement even when
parents do not speak English
■ Treating students as individuals, and the willingness to revise instruction to meet individual student needs.
■ Appreciating student voices.
■ Facilitating knowledge and pride
in various ethnic, cultural, and language
backgrounds.
■ Believing that all students are capable
Social Interaction in the Classroom
Rules and Routines
Teachers in charge of
■ Uphold classroom rules.
■ Privately discipline students who misbehave.
■ Apply a clear set of consequences to students who misbehave.
■ Involve parents or the principal when necessary (Brown, 2002).
Differentiated Instruction
■ Individual or group assessment where the teacher targets certain skills or strategies.
■ Interest assessments where small groups of students work together on a topic or project.
■ Personalities of students (e.g., not putting all shy students together).
■ Varied language backgrounds so that students can support and scaffold the language of peers.
■ Knowledge or vocabulary background; the teacher groups students to develop this background prior to a whole-class lesson
THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Places
■ Whole-class instruction with space at tables or desks and on the carpet
■ Small-group instruction, typically at a small table.
■ Centers for students.
Literacy Center
■ Board or cloth books.
■ Concept books
■ Environmental print.
■ Wordless books.
■ Catalogues, television guides, and newspaper advertising.
■ Alphabet books.
■ Number books.
■ Books connected to television shows.
■ Traditional literature.
Play and Dramatic Play Centers
INTERSECTIONS OF PHYSICAL
AND SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
Activities of Engagement
