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Creating caring & enabling learning environment

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Creating caring & enabling learning environment

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1. Rotating the groupings of students regularly (so as to extend the level of interactions between different students).
2. Keep the parents' in the loop of the child's behavior (through Class Dojo or other suitable platforms).
3. Be intentional to pair up certain Peer Supporters in the class to these small group of students. Can get feedback regularly from them on how the class is doing.

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TLG Pri Pg 57 to 58: Ideas to Establish A Caring and Enabling School Environment

Building A Positive Class Community: A Guide for Form Teacher

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Please provide specific examples / ideas on the post if possible.

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1. May need to educate class if there are students with special needs
2. Class dynamics/ student profiles/ peer relationships and support
As a class are they doing something collectively to reach out to Siva --> strengthening peer relationships
3. Parents not reachable/ never present --> create f2f meeting instead of communicating over phone

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How to create a caring and enabling learning environment

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How to create a caring and enabling learning environment

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1. Sociogram/ Social matrix (e.g. who would you go for help/support in the class, who do you think needs help/support) --> can be used to generate a pattern/web of relationships amongst students in the class
[Teacher could retain confidentiality to identify class dynamics, students who can be tapped on to provide peer support, students who may be lacking in relationships. Teacher could invite students to provide some elaboration too.]
2. Teachers would need to be familiar with the (accurate) personalities of their students, and/or the reasons behind their behaviour (e.g. introversion due to personality or past experiences).
3. Seating arrangements can be intentional to help address certain peer relationships/ engineer active interactions (e.g. split up quieter students). Buddy system.
4. Include collaborative aspects in T&L - allow opportunities for students to interact.
5. Weekly check-in - can consolidate class progress (e.g. in discipline, cleanliness). Need to build good TSR

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1) Relationship of the class (P5) is not strong - Cliques of friends from P4

2) Class is grappling with the academic challenge of a higher level

3) Peter is not so popular with the class

4) New student Celeste - concerns with integrating her to the new class

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1. A small group of students in the form class does not interact well with the rest.
2. Everything seems okay in front of the teacher, but there seems to be some underlying issues (especially for Siva).
3. Students may have issues in using the appropriate choices of words when interacting with one another.
4. Family support (for Siva) not strong? Class support for the boy may not be strong as well.

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How to work with Ms Aishah to create a caring and enabling learning environment for your class

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How to work with Ms Aishah to create a caring and enabling learning environment for your class

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1) To improve class bonding and r/s: Rearrange seating plan termly/semestral, class party.

2) Academic pressure -  Share strategies to cope with higher demands and also share them with parents; keep a look out for signs of stress in students and intervene early

3) To help students like Peter -  Intentionally plan his grouping with friends who could support him; Draw up class norms for social interactions; Teach Peter to manage his anger and social skills.

4) To help new student Celeste -  Create a welcome environment for celeste e.g. assign buddy, hold welcome party, use info from celeste mother to work with celeste on her strengths (e.g. her passions) and weakness (e.g. bullying history). Follow up periodically with Celeste mother on how she has been doing in class and adjusting to the school, and provide her advice or help (e.g. school counsellor or external help from FSC)

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Areas of Concern:
1) Lack of cohesion in the class (separate groups)
2) The need to include new student (who was previously bullied)
3) Higher academic demands in P5
4) One high needs student in class
5) Potential issue? (parent of new student)

How would you work with Ms Aishah to create a caring and enabling learning environment for your class?

1) Bonding activities in the beginning and get new student to introduce herself
2) Co-construct class rules, etc
3) Introduce mixed groups for interaction - identify PSLs to support both academic and emotional aspects
4) Class buddy system (especially important for new student)
5) Find out more about HNS (previous FTs, SDT, etc) - share learning points on how to handle this student with other subject teachers - important to have a fixed set of routines amongst all subject teachers
6) Find out account from new student on what is bullying as students might not know the term "bullying" and use it loosely.
7) Establish rules of communication (online) - to prevent cyberbullying
8) Work with subject teachers (maybe a google sheet to collate any issues in subject classes and FTs to surface issues to parents)
9) Subject teachers to be included in class dojo to work closely and communicate with parents
10) Check-in with parents of new students too
11) Teach the students how to manage the increased workload, how and where to seek help.

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1) Peer relationships  - new classmates, cliquish, new transfer student, a student with disruptive behaviour

2) Increase in academic load from P4 to P5

3) Concerned parents - over children's ability to cope with increased academic load; Celeste's parent who is concerned about her assimiliating to the new sch, prev being bullied

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1) Students feel hurt because of negative comments
2) Some students are left out from online activities
3) Siva may lack social skills to interact with his classmates
4) Parents of Siva are not contacted earlier on him not handing in homework (parents should be alerted within a few days if homework has not been submitted)

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Overall:
1) how teacher can create a positive and inclusive class culture / structure where everyone has a voice, understand its important for turn taking
2) Build positive peer support and relationship
3) be intentional about grouping for more mixing of students

On Siva:
1) Triangulate info from other subject teachers
2) when engaging Siva's parents, instead of diving straight, give the context and seek to understand from his parents how Siva has been doing at home. (may be able to find out deeper issues)

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How to work with Ms Aisah to create a caring and enabling learning env?

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How to work with Ms Aisah to create a caring and enabling learning env?

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1) Peer relationships
- Tone setting for the class learning environment, especially for new classes coming together
- Inculcate positive class culture (use kind and positive words etc)
- provide opportunities for students to get to know each other better (check-ins, class activities etc)

2) Increase in academic load from P4 to P5
- having a session with parents and students to set expectations and assure the parents and students that drop in grades is expected and common
- FTs to teach students some strategies to manage their time, stress levels, emotions etc; FTs can also help to give parents some tips
- Identify the low progress learners and provide support and intervention early.

3) Concerned parents