Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
A Positive Learning Environment - Coggle Diagram
A Positive Learning Environment
Social-Emotional Learning
Build SEL skills and learn, practice, and teach strategies to students.
SECURe strategies
Feelings Tree
"I" Messages
Stop & Stay School tools
Brain Games
Pocket Points
Think Alouds
Think-Pair-Share
use disruptive behavior as a learning opportunity
Reframe disruptive behavior by paying attention to and positively responding to negative or otherwise maladaptive behaviors.
avoid power struggles and instead, acknowledge the perceived disruptive behavior or attitude as a sharpened skill and redirect from there
use discussion-based strategies rather than negative reinforcement
Build empathy by practicing empathy.
examine your own vulnerabilities
leave your ego at the door (Beatty-O'Farrall, Green, & Hanna, 2010)
Relationship Building
Create and maintain high-quality relationships with students and between students.
warmth
responsiveness
clear boundaries
discipline
build empathy
Make multicultural connections with your students by getting to know them and their background.
educate yourself
look for programs and curriculum that cover culturally-relevant material
make it clear to students that you
care
about their lives outside of the classroom
Teacher Practice
Planning and preparing for situations that are difficult for students (individually and as a class).
transitions
change in routine
learning activities
using classroom management devices around the classroom to facilitate predictability in the day
posters, charts, and SEL books
calm down corners, regulation stations, breathing exercises
transition signals, timers, clocks
Responsive problem solving, rather than reactive.
flexible thinking
talk with learners, rather than talking at them
Observation and Documentation
collect data
adapt classroom management strategies as needed
Grab students' attention from the start by demonstrating your belief in them from the start.
let them get to know you through anecdotes and vulnerability
provide space or room for their voice to be used and heard by you and other students
access their previous knowledge about a subject
References
Beaty-O’Ferrall, M.E., Green, A., & Hanna, F. (2010). Classroom management strategies for difficult students: promoting change through relationships. Middle School Journal, 41(4), 4-11.
https://brightspace.uri.edu/content/enforced/307618-2252_224351_0002_0000_OL2/Classroom%20Management%20Strategies%20for%20Difficult%20Students.pdf?ou=307618
Jones, S. M. Bailey, R., & Jacob, R. (2014). Social-emotional learning is essential to classroom management. Phi Delta Kappan, 96(19) 19-24.
https://brightspace.uri.edu/content/enforced/171280-2222_224351_0001_0000_OL2/SEL%20is%20essential%20to%20classroom%20management.pdf?ou=307618
Kaplowitz, J.R. (2012). Transforming information literacy instruction using learner-centered teaching. Neal-Schumann.