Most teachers cover three crucial areas: the right to feel
safe, not just physically but
psychologically safe, and what that means; the right to fundamental respect and fair treatment of one another; and obviously the right to
learn without undue and unreasonable distraction from other students, so what a
learning community ought to feel like.
And if we understand how this works — if you think about it, if you're in a classroom where you feel
psychologically and physically
safe and secure because your teacher is doing a great job of leading and developing a space that you feel like you're prepared to have a go and participate, take risks, because we need that to occur in
learning.