Creating Class Norms
Management in the Active Classroom
Tapping into the hopes and dreams of your class provides guidance for the norms you'll live by all year.
Transcript
- [Narrator] Classroom norms for respect and communication can make all students feel more safe and focused.
- Would you read aloud the debate question and norms please?
- Listen and respond to each other rather than just--
- [Narrator] When students are involved in building the norms themselves, with their own ideas and language.
- Think about situations where you learn best.
- [Narrator] The norms are more meaningful and effective.
- [Teacher] What makes it that way? What are you doing? What are the qualities and characteristics?
- [Narrator] Norms are not a list of rules or bad behaviors to avoid.
- Encouraging others.
- Give and receive good, helpful feedback.
- [Narrator] They are a list that describes the positive environment they want to live in.
- We’re gonna open the floor for apologies and acknowledgements and remembering that this is a time to acknowledge--
- [Narrator] For norms to work, they must be considered and discussed almost every day.
- Maybe things didn’t go so well for you as they could have today.
- I apologize to Anthony because I got him mad in fitness.
- I acknowledge David and McDowlett for letting me sit at their table at lunch.
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