Use planning to create specific learning goals for students and also to
discuss classroom norms and strategies for sharing leadership and responding to students.
Not exact matches
The schools and
classrooms where I've seen the strongest relationship - based cultures are ones where students have input on establishing
norms and processes, where team building happens throughout the year so that students and teachers know each other well, and, on the teacher level, where teachers have regular opportunities to collaborate to design meaningful PBL experiences for students and
discuss student supports.
That should involve the creation of
classroom norms to guide conversation and provide guardrails for
discussing contentious topics.
The authors
discuss the development of
classroom norms and rules from a constructivist point of view.
In previous articles in this series, we've
discussed some of the conditions which lead to teachers making the painstaking decision to leave the
classroom: feeling unheard and undervalued, having little to no agency in school decisions and feeling frustrated by systemic
norms that prevent them from becoming the teachers they so deeply desire to be.
What this may look like is an initial meeting with administrators to
discuss the goals and
norms of the PLC and expectations in terms of how what participants are learning might be enacted in
classrooms.
Readers learn about
norms and building a safe environment to
discuss difficult topics like personal practice in the
classroom.
Recommended Strategies: Supportive Provide opportunities for students to
discuss concerns with teachers and counselors Address issues of motivation, self - perception and self - efficacy Accommodate learning styles Modify teaching styles (e.g., abstract, concrete, visual, auditory) Use mastery learning Decrease competitive,
norm - referenced environments Use cooperative learning and group work Use positive reinforcement and praise Seek affective and student - centered
classrooms Set high expectations of students Use multicultural education and counseling techniques and strategies Involve mentors and role models Involve family members in substantive ways