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STRATEGY
Your Goal: A Positive Classroom Culture
The goal of classroom management is to create a culture so positive that all of your students can achieve their fullest potential. The encouraging atmosphere in such a class is what makes it so different from classrooms where teachers and students engage in scholastic warfare. How will you know when you have reached your goal of having a positive class culture? Here are some of the traits that your management policies should be geared to produce:
- Students are on task throughout class.
- Student work is on display.
- The business of the class is everyone's business.
- There is a clear expectation of success.
- Lessons are well planned and engaging.
- Routines and procedures provide a structure for behavior.
- Classroom rules are posted, enforced, and observed.
- Students are aware of the objectives for the day's lesson.
- The pace of class work is appropriate for all students.
- Mutual respect is evident.
- Disruptions and interruptions are managed with a minimal loss of instructional
time.
- Students work on real-life assignments.
- The conversational tone is positive.
- Students collaborate with each other and with their teacher.
- Students and teacher exhibit courtesy.
- Students and teacher enjoy their work and each other's company.
- Everyone works with a purpose.
Excerpted from Section Fourteen, "Manage Your Classroom Through Early Intervention," of The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide, by Julia G. Thompson. Copyright © 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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