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Creating Positive Classroom Climate: 30 Practical Teaching Strategies for All School Contexts is designed for all K-12 educators, pre-service teachers, and teacher preparation faculty. We wrote this book to provide readers with accessible tools that can help them create and maintain an optimal classroom climate.
Reading this book is like being in the room with 30 teacher mentors from different grade-levels and school settings who are sharing strategies for building and maintaining a positive classroom climate. Discover step-by-step breakdowns of how to implement each strategy as well as professional reflections from contributors representing two different grade-levels and a range of suburban and urban settings from all over the globe.
Education students and novice teachers will learn from the in-depth descriptions of how to implement each strategy. Veteran teachers will be inspired by contributing teachers' professional reflection regarding why and how they utilize each strategy.
Readers in ALL school contexts will benefit from narrative descriptions of each strategy in action, which bring to life the ways that the strategies have made an impact on student learning and teacher development. The adaptations modeled throughout the book, based on students' and schools' assets and needs, help readers to think about how to make each strategy a good fit for their unique classroom. If you are looking for practical ideas from the field, look no further - this is a book designed to build your teaching toolbox with classroom climate strategies that you will use for years to come.
List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Highlights from Adaptable Teaching
Strategy 1: Group Agreements
Strategy 2: Establishing Routines
Strategy 3: Positive Affirmations
Strategy 4: Failing Forward
Strategy 5: Critical Feedback Surveys
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Strategy 6: Room Setup
Strategy 7: Getting to Know Students
Strategy 8: Team Building Games
Chapter 3: Routines
Strategy 9: Classroom Jobs
Strategy 10: Check-Ins
Strategy 11: Student Voice to Start Class
Strategy 12: Working the Room
Strategy 13: Brain and Body Breaks
Strategy 14: Mindfulness
Strategy 15: Spotlighting Students
Chapter 4: Supporting a Positive, Productive Climate
Strategy 16: Building Positive Teacher-Student Relationships and Trust
Strategy 17: Building Positive Peer-to-Peer Relationships and Trust
Strategy 18: Guiding Students to Share Their Thinking and Feelings
Strategy 19: Connecting Through Current Events
Strategy 20: Supporting Student-Led Learning
Chapter 5: 10 Bonus Strategies
Conclusion
About the author
Jonathan Ryan Davis is an associate professor at The College of New Jersey where he coordinates the urban secondary education program. Jonathan is a former high school social studies teacher, cooperating teacher, and instructional coach who taught in northern Kentucky and New York City.
Maureen Connolly is an associate professor at The College of New Jersey where she coordinates the secondary education program. Maureen is a former service learning coordinator and high school English teacher who taught for 15 years at Mineola High School.
Summary
In this book, you will learn how practicing teachers in diverse school and classroom contexts have implemented successful strategies to create and maintain a positive classroom climate that enables ALL students to thrive.
