Classroom Culture has two parts.
Part one is an online course, which is centered around the Five Principles of Classroom Culture:
1. Calm, Consistent Behavior
2. Sustainable Routines
3. First Attention to Best Conduct
4. Scripted Interventions
5. Restorative Approaches
Part two involves classroom instruction which may be delivered as individual modules or in a single session.
During this instruction, participants will experience a deeper understanding of the Five Principles of Classroom Culture and have the opportunity to discuss, plan, and reflect upon implementation strategies.
1. Analyze how stereotypes, judgments, assumptions, and expectations influence your student relationships and responses to student behavior.
2. Reflect on how adult behavior and expectations impact student behavior, how students learn acceptable behavior from adults, and how adult self-awareness and role modeling affect student behavior, referencing the applicable research.
3. Devise a behavior and response plan to build, protect, and actively improve relationships with students, regardless of their individual needs, contextualized within your school’s own research-based frameworks. The plan should include teaching behaviors you want to see, such as:
- Choosing responses that model to students that you are in control of your own behavior,
- Acknowledging mistakes
- Apologizing as necessary and
- Modeling routines
4. Apply skills to build and sustain a positive classroom culture and learning environment, including one in which students:
- Are set up for success with clear expectations,
- Feel listened to
- Self-regulate their behavior
- Are internally motivated to follow rules, routines, and appropriate behavior,
- Take responsibility for their actions,
- Recognize the impact of their behavior, and
- Think reflectively.
5. Implement strategies to earn emotional currency, build and earn the trust of students, and/or create a safe space for them in which they know what to expect
6. Create clear and consistent procedures, rules, and routines for improving your own student’s behavior; a repertoire of elements of consistent practice for you to follow (such as language, response, follow up, and consequences); and a plan that is fair, respectful, and predictable for when students do not behavior appropriately, striving for a respectful compliance rather than forced compliance.
7. Develop habits that allow you to respond calmly and consistently to student behaviors that elicit negative emotional responses in you, such as exercising emotional control and recognizing and disguising your negative emotions.
8. Establish techniques that support a cycle of reinforcing appropriate behavior positively, such as:
- Having a recognition system,
- Catching students doing the right thing,
- Ensuring that appropriate behavior gets the first and most attention, and
- Using caring habits
9. Develop approaches for intervening with a student’s negative behavior at allow all parties to leave the conversation with their dignity intact, such as:
- Use of assertive language and tone while still showing compassion,
- Active listening,
- Appropriate body language,
- Scripted interventions, and
- An effective restorative approach.
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