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I want to focus on the physical environment--specifically my classroom library/reading area. I want to cultivate a positive reading environment.

Taylor Rounds

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Keep it simple, homey, allow students to display work and organize their own supplies. Give students opportunities to serve/jobs! Safe places to gather themselves on their own!
- Andrew C.

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Instrument access, and organization

William F.

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I want to focus on giving students choice in their seating and making sure their needs are met.
-Bailey Knapp

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Keep decor on walls simple and intentional. Be aware of sensory needs and how too much visual information can effect their focus and memory
-Erin S

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Power of yet really stood out because it shows that life is a process.  You might know it all, yet, but you can with hard work. This can be put into my work by incorporating with errorless learning in speech so that they aren’t afraid to try today. The time is yet to come.

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In order to be a role model for my students, I plan to always have a positive outlook on all situations. I also plan to be more of a listener for those students who need that. Building relationships with my students is important to me and will help build trust as well.

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Talk to students during break times, especially if they seem like they're having a tough day. Also, place a container somewhere in the room with the title "I wish Mrs/Mr. knew...." . They may want to tell you something anonymously.

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As a SPED teacher, several of my students will have experienced traumas that may or may not have caused their exceptionality. It is important that I remind my students often that they are loved, safe, cared for and their success is an important goal of mine.

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Operating with a trauma lense allows me to better understand my students. By using this lense, I will be able to better support their growth and learning.

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Operating with a trau

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It is important to have clear and reasonable expectations. Procedures should be clear and practiced. Cues are extremely important to help with transitions and attention.

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Make your classroom exciting, but predictable

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Make your classroom exciting, but predictable

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Start lesson as soon as students walks in the door, for example be prepare with a bellringer activity on the first day of school. 

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Start lesson as soon as students walks in the door, for example be prepare with a bellringer activity on the first day of school. 

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Students can benefit from talking about the difference between productive and destructive struggles

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I think being consistent while managing behaviors is going to be a big focus of mine this year. Last year I would "feel bad" and give a kid a piece of candy even if I had to get on to them during the session. 

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I think being consistent while managing behaviors is going to be a big focus of mine this year. Last year I would "feel bad" and give a kid a piece of candy even if I had to get on to them during the session. 

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Basically by being more responsive and sensitive to what students might have experienced outside of the classroom

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LOVE the power of YET! Always encourage and I believe in you! Give your best. Not there YET, but you CAN get there! Think positive and NOT negative. ALL of these we can use for the children AND ourselves.

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Make sure that my students are always engaged, no matter what method I am using for my instruction

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Make sure that my students are always engaged, no matter what method I am using for my instruction

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Teachers should be able to offer emotional support to trauma sensitive students so that they feel cared for and 

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Teachers should be able to offer emotional support to trauma sensitive students so that they feel cared for and 

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It is important to keep the room homey and welcoming. Showing student work throughout the room and allowing students to help with decorating or adding work to the room. Motivating quotes throughout the room. -Kayla 

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It is important to keep the room homey and welcoming. Showing student work throughout the room and allowing students to help with decorating or adding work to the room. Motivating quotes throughout the room. -Kayla 

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My classroom will benefit so much from having a place for my students to go relax, gather their feelings, and then come back and keep working hard. Brain breaks and breaks from the stress of the typical school day for students with EBD is necessary for the longevity of student attention and engagement in my room.

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Keeping the classroom centered around the students. Making them feel at home and comfortable while in the classroom. Also, being aware of decorations on the walls so that students do not get distracted during class. 

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Keeping the classroom centered around the students. Making them feel at home and comfortable while in the classroom. Also, being aware of decorations on the walls so that students do not get distracted during class. 

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Brittany S.

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A well-rounded classroom culture comes with time. I have had to come to terms with the fact that my classroom will not be 100% the way I envision it for my students on Day 1. However, I can do my best to create the environment that is welcoming and loving for my students. I want to work on the classroom decorations,

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I hope to begin to introduce flex seating more and more throughout the year as both my students and myself become more and more accustomed to that.

Cheryl Atkins

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I am a school psychologist intern so the way I can apply physical environment will be with my office/room I will administer tests to students in. It will be important for my office to feel warm and inviting with only minimum things placed on the wall as I do not want my room to be a distraction to the student during test administration.
-Kendrea K.

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I would like to post quotes in the room.  I am going to try to do some, using only pictures, for the students who are beginning readers.
Georgia M.

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Making the reading center cozy so that students are eager to sit down and pick a good book.

-Kelsey S

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I hope that students students feel comfortable communicating with me about how they're feeling. This is a skill that not all students have or are proficient in so I hope to do social skills instruction in communicating those feelings. When students are able to do this I can better teach them. -Sarah C

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Learning is not easy and we don't always get it the first time. Tell the students you struggle with this too and talk about the feelings. Freedom to have failure!

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Honesty is important to always have with students.   I will always try to be consistent and  follow through with what I tell my students.
Georgia M.

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My overall goal of relationship building is to show the students that I care about them and that I want them to succeed.

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I aim to create a positive relationship with all students by getting to know them and allowing them to get to know me and by building trust with them.

Cheryl Atkins

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Get to know students within the first couple days of school in order to build a relationship with them. Get to know what their interests are outside of school and supporting them. Also, let the students know what your interests are so that they can understand who you are as a person.
Brittany S.

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As a school psychologist intern, it will be important for me to have a quick and fun way to introduce myself to the students I pull for assessments (i.e., photo flipbook, read about me one pager) as some of the students will not be as familiar with me since I do not have a full class of students I will see daily for a year.
-Kendrea Knight

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Making sure to constantly invest in every student. Taking the time to invest in their likes, dislikes, and home experiences. Understanding and being flexible when it comes to students.
Kelsey S

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Giving students a voice in my classroom. I want to be able to receive their feedback and use it to better inform my instruction as the year goes on. It is important to me that my students recognize and understand how much their voice matters to me. Hopefully, in recognizing this, we will be able to build mutual respects in the classroom. -Taylor McGuirt

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By building the relationships necessary to function smoothly as a "classroom family," students will be more willing to follow directions, to work hard for you, and to take ownership of their learning/meet the expectations you have set for them and that they have set for themselves.

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Rapport, preparation, and respect can go a long way in classroom management. Get to know your kids, establish routines, and respect all students.
Alex M.

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Two keys to management are clear procedures and positivity. The procedures will help with transitions, organization, and consistent student engagement. Positivity can transform everyday worries and obstacles to learning into energy sources and opportunities for achievement. 

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Two keys to management are clear procedures and positivity. The procedures will help with transitions, organization, and consistent student engagement. Positivity can transform everyday worries and obstacles to learning into energy sources and opportunities for achievement. 

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Explicitly teach expectations and routines. Create a consistent behavior management so that behaviors do not impede learning. Use strategies like high numbers opportunities to respond (verbal, writing, and with gestures) reinforce often.

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Transitions, ways to get the class's attention, build relationships, the way you set up your room, ask questions, pull sticks to call on EVERYONE and give them all a chance.

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My biggest take away here is that you absolutely have to form relationships with students in order to encourage them when you see them get to the place of "destructive struggle."

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By aligning classroom practices with my intentions, I can insure that we build a strong classroom culture in which students feel confident and in which standard procedures move smoothly for the benefit of learning.

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It is important for students to know what is expected of them in the clearest of terms in regards to every single aspect of the learning day. For SPED it is crucial for students with ASD to know the schedule and how they are expected to do things early on.

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I plan on implementing strategies in my classroom that will hopefully allow for smooth transitions and allow for routines to be established. Routines are important in the elementary setting for students to get in the habit of practicing, plus students will know what to expect and what is expected of them, if the routines are taught properly.

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In the high school classroom, I set energy and intention for my classroom. I also allow some choice with activities and personal responsibility.  Some words that stood out: Mindfulness, influence, create, transformational.

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Students need to have standard procedures for everything they do in the classroom because if they do not, they will invent their own way. I enjoyed the tour around the room slideshow and teaching students how to use each station.

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Giving explicit instructions helps students know what to do and how to meet your expectations. It is also okay to re-evaluate procedures/rules and to remind students of these throughout the year.

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Giving explicit instructions helps students know what to do and how to meet your expectations. It is also okay to re-evaluate procedures/rules and to remind students of these throughout the year.

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effective rules and expectations

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Students who experience trauma are not broken...

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Students who experience trauma are not broken...

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It is important to understand the challenges facing students. Students are coming from all backgrounds and not all are positive. Understanding students suffer from trauma can help create a positive and healthy place in the classroom.

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Different coping capacities means that there is no single profile for what "trauma" is from student to student

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Different coping capacities means that there is no single profile for what "trauma" is from student to student

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I think it is so important to make sure your students know that they are safe in your classroom, no matter how hard they have it everywhere else.

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An area of focus for my classroom will be creating a welcoming classroom for my students. I want my students to feel safe in my classroom and I believe I can establish that with my students by creating a welcoming environment for them to enter.

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I teach a pretty behavioral SPED class. It is vital that I am mindful in my decorations, to not over stimulate my students and cause negative behaviors. I need to create a welcoming environment that is calm and uplifting to encourage learning. There can be too much on the walls to cause over stimulation- something that I had never heard of before.

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An area of focus in my classroom will be organization. It is important to have colorful decor and artwork up on the walls, however, sometimes organization is more important than having a decorated classroom. 

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An area of focus in my classroom will be organization. It is important to have colorful decor and artwork up on the walls, however, sometimes organization is more important than having a decorated classroom. 

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An area of focus for me this year is flexible seating. I was fortunate to be able to explore flexible seating in my internship placements and saw the benefit of providing choice and varied options for learning spaces. I want to focus on making my classroom an open and flexible physical environment that hits on the individual learning styles of my learners.

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In my health science classroom, to help prepare students for the workforce I'd like to use my classroom as a mock "workplace". They have to clock in, scrub in (use hand sanitizer), etc.  But I also want it to be flexible by having a "lounge" for breaktime.  The teacher brings the energy they want in the classroom. Kelli B

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I will be sure that the students can hear it and see it, so they understand completely.

Georgia M.

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Creating a classroom that feels inviting yet is manageable in a lab setting where students can move around the room with materials and remain safe.

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set up the environment inductive to learning

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set up the environment inductive to learning

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school psychologist's office should include items that the children can use to break the ice- ex. jenga, puzzles.

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school psychologist's office should include items that the children can use to break the ice- ex. jenga, puzzles.

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Need to make sure to be thorough and explicit. And read and re-read to make sure steps are not missing before going live with any SOPs.
-Kendrea Knight

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Be firm and fair.  Allow students to have some sort of accountability. 

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Be firm and fair.  Allow students to have some sort of accountability. 

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Rules and consequences are the same across the board for all students.

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One area that I want to focus on in relation to relationship building is making my classroom a safe place to fail. Even though we all want to encourage students to explore and try and fail, I am interested in building the relationships that will support an environment in which students feel like they can fail productively.

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Relationships with students are important. They have to understand you to understand what you are teaching. I need to understand what my students' goals and interests are to drive my instruction and their success in my classroom. In SPED sometimes things look different.
Jodi Ann

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Talk to my students during break time when we walk to the cafe.  Give them choice in some activities. We are preparing for their careers, and they control their future so they should have some choice in the classroom. Kelli B

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Team building to help students get to know each other and collaborate/engage in conversations.

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Team building to help students get to know each other and collaborate/engage in conversations.

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Positive relationships between students and teachers with students can help create a positive classroom culture.

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Have clear and reasonable expectations while remaining open to necessary changes in order to better accommodate students.

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connect with the students on their interests

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connect with the students on their interests

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Creating relationships with students and having students create relationships is important so that there is trust built in the classroom. I plan to be a listener for my students when they need someone to just listen to them.

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Students want to know when and what is expected. Students need to be flexible as well, but as much as possible being on a schedule and allowing time for brain breaks and body movement is a must.
-GoNOODLE - tackey at times but great.
-Active stations allow movement
Tell students what you are there and what you EXPECT from them by practicing PROCEDURES! It's all about their learning and growth.

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My classroom is going to be heavy on group assignments through partner labs in science. In order for students to work together cohesively they need to understand each other and try to find a way to work efficiently and effectively. By implementing get to know you games and team building activities they can feel comfortable with a variety of students in the classroom.-Bennett Carpenter

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make the student comfortable to share their interests

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make the student comfortable to share their interests

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I want to be intentional about making positive phone call to parents. Establish clear expectations and routines
-Erin S

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I want to continue to keep the spark of being ready and prepared as much as possible. I know I can't control everything, but I can think ahead and use information I already have to continue building on the structure of my classroom.

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Set clear expectations at the beginning of the year...very first day! 

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Set clear expectations at the beginning of the year...very first day! 

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have the student write down their interests and then have them talk to you about them

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have the student write down their interests and then have them talk to you about them

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Having conversations with the students to build reasonable expectations and procedures for the classroom.

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I think sometimes we forget to remind students that when they do their best they will eventually get there. I think we often forget to include the power of yet with trying their best.

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Help students remain hopeful and productive in their struggles.

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I think it is important to give students options in the classroom or to have a voice, but still keep a classroom where students know your expectations and know their consequences if they aren't following directions.

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Use visuals so students have something to go back on when they forget procedures 

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Use visuals so students have something to go back on when they forget procedures 

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I plan on having a visual representation of the rules posted on my wall, so students can view them at all times. I think that it is also important to follow through with consequences, so students learn that you mean what you say.

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I plan on having a visual representation of the rules posted on my wall, so students can view them at all times. I think that it is also important to follow through with consequences, so students learn that you mean what you say.

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It is important to have student voice in the classroom to help develop responsibility and self management in the classroom