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Erin Gruwell's Example of  Creating Classroom Climate

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Erin Gruwell's Example of  Creating Classroom Climate

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State Ground Rules

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Cornell University Class Climate Definition

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Cornell University Class Climate Definition

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https://www.cte.cornell.edu/teaching-ideas/building-inclusive-classrooms/classroom-climate.html

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Aspects of Class Climate

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Creating a Healthy Classroom Environment Tips

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Creating a Healthy Classroom Environment Tips

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https://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-emotionally-healthy-classroom-environment-mark-phillips

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Development of the classroom climate measurement model

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Development of the classroom climate measurement model

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http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042815002839/1-s2.0-S1877042815002839-main.pdf?_tid=83281eb2-1a5d-11e7-8844-00000aacb360&acdnat=1491437639_c023981c85f08fbf4a62b96e2119f50e

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https://www.cte.cornell.edu/teaching-ideas/building-inclusive-classrooms/classroom-climate.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcQjnpmFns

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A Place for Learning: The Physical Environment of Classrooms

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A Place for Learning: The Physical Environment of Classrooms

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https://www.edutopia.org/blog/the-physical-environment-of-classrooms-mark-phillips

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Edutopia is a free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education. We are published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

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Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Advice | Intervention Central

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Get to know your students from the beginning. Students are less likely to misbehave or act disrespectfully toward the teacher if they have a positive relationship with him or her. Teachers can get a jumpstart on getting to know their class as individuals by making up a simple survey for students to complete at the start of the school year.

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The classroom. environment can either improve or impede a student's ability to learn and feel safe and comfortable as. a member of the class. Classrooms that encourage emotional well-being create an atmosphere for both. learning and emotional development.

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The classroom. environment can either improve or impede a student's ability to learn and feel safe and comfortable as. a member of the class. Classrooms that encourage emotional well-being create an atmosphere for both. learning and emotional development.

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teacher has handshake for each of his students

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teacher has handshake for each of his students

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Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning

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Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning

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Improving students' relationships with teachers has important, positive and long-lasting implications for both students' academic and social development. Solely improving students' relationships with their teachers will not produce gains in achievement. However, those students who have close, positive and supportive relationships with their teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflict in their relationships.

Picture a student who feels a strong personal connection to her teacher, talks with her teacher frequently, and receives more constructive guidance and praise rather than just criticism from her teacher. The student is likely to trust her teacher more, show more engagement in learning, behave better in class and achieve at higher levels academically. Positive teacher-student relationships draw students into the process of learning and promote their desire to learn (assuming that the content material of the class is engaging, age-appropriate and well matched to the student's skills).

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Invite students to think and reflect on the learning process. Classroom Climate helps you see how mood affects the lesson on an ongoing basis. Pre-lesson, students can reflect on their own mood. Post-lesson, students can reflect on how they thought the lesson went.

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Tips for creating a warm and non- threatening School Environment

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Tips for creating a warm and non- threatening School Environment

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https://www.thoughtco.com/non-threatening-welcome-classroom-environment-3111328

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KzjP8O9ec

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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1015237.pdf

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Tapping into the power of school climate to prevent bullying_one applicatoin of schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports

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Research has shown that young people who feel connected to their school are less likely to engage in many risk behaviors, including early sexual initiation, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, and violence and gang involvement.

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https://ramblingsofagiftedteacher.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/mentoring-gifted-children/

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http://edglossary.org/school-culture/

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Education World_ Bullying Intervention Strategies That Work

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student success built on a positive school climate

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School connectedness is the belief by students that adults in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals. So states the Wingspread Declaration, a set of school climate-related best practices compiled by experts from schools, universities and government.

The Declaration's authors identified three key conditions that must exist in order for students to feel connected to school: (1) interpersonal connectedness with staff and peers, (2) an engaging environment that is physically and emotionally safe; and (3) academic engagement (support to reach their personal best with flexible, relevant instruction).

Expanding upon this foundation, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute guide Best Practices for Effective Schools identifies numerous practical, everyday strategies that can immediately begin building students' feelings of connection to school.

A sampling of these strategies follows. The good news is that aside from a little time and staff motivation, none of these ideas will cost a thing.

Student-Teacher Connectedness

Arrange a regular time each day or week to share thoughts and concerns. (In the upper grades, schools often call these "advisory" groups or sessions.) These discussions can be completely informal or more structured--for example, covering various self-care, health-promotion or risk-prevention topics.

Elicit and act on students' recommendations for activities and lessons.

Set a goal to highlight positive student contributions daily so that young people know you appreciate and value them as individuals.

School-Student Connectedness

Have an adult personally greet students each day at the entrances to the building, and during class passing times, have teachers stand in the hallways to help maintain a positive presence and environment.

Ensure that every student has a relationship with at least one caring adult (either inside the building or from the community) who initiates personal contact at least a few times a week.

Break up large schools into smaller learning communities.

Physical and Emotional Safety

Offer regular opportunities for students to talk with adults about their feelings of physical and emotional safety.

Ensure that all staff demonstrate respect toward students and each other.

Design a discipline system that is flexible and compassionate, with an emphasis on encouraging positive behavior rather than simply punishing negative behavior.

Cultivate peaceful spaces and times (e.g., a garden, 10-minute yoga breaks, etc.).

Academic Engagement and Flexible Teaching Methods

Teach students the value of learning from their mistakes (encourage revisions to assignments and tests; meet with students to help them reflect upon their performance, etc.).

Encourage teachers to address varied learning styles through instruction and assessment.

Make space in teachers' schedules for them to observe, share and practice innovative instructional strategies.

Relate instruction to students' lives.

Use project- and problem-based instruction to give students control over their own learning.

Related resources

Is Your School Doing Real Youth Mentoring?
Understanding Adult Bullying
Beyond Icebreakers: Building Student Connectedness
School Adopts Yoga for Wellness, Behavior Management
Offering Choices to Students
Positive Consequences: A New Spin on Discipline
Multiple Intelligences: Practical Classroom Ideas
Teachers Teaching Teachers: PD That Works
Essential Elements of Project-Based Learning

Article by Celine Provini, EducationWorld Editor
Education World®
Copyright © 2013 Education World

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Quick Tips: School Connectedness | Education World

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Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning

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Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning

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http://www.apa.org/education/k12/relationships.aspx

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http://www.elixirpublishers.com/articles/1351260412_49%20(2012)%2010162-10165.pdf

Reference
Khan, P., & Iqbal, M. (2012). Overcrowded classroom: a serious problem for teachers. Educational Technology, 49, 10162-10165.

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