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This is the foundation of any classroom-based and school-wide approach to positive behaviour supports.
What is positive relationships?
Taking time in class and in the hallways or on the school ground to talk with students about their lives outside of school is an example of this strategy.
What is demonstrate a personal interest in students?
Building and fostering relationships among students creates a feeling of this, which can make a difference in the behaviour and learning of each and every student in the class
What is community?
Many schools are replacing parent–teacher interviews with this conference format that more actively involves both students and parents.
What is parents and student learning conferences
(or student led conferences)?
To be engaged members of the school community, students need to see the school—both the physical building and the community of people inside—as what?
What is safe and welcoming?
Teachers who move around the classroom and teach from various areas and near different students use this strategy.
What is proximity?
Teachers can use this strategy to informally engage students individually, ask how they are doing, gauge their emotional state, have a brief conversation, and/or generally make them feel welcome.
What is greet students at the door?
This approach fosters a climate of acceptance and openness to the varied strengths, interests, and challenges among students in the class and ensures students have opportunities to work independently, with different partners, in small groups, and in larger groups throughout the school day.
What is flexible groupings?
This strategy uses leader boards, email, blogs, wikis, websites, school newsletters, or student agendas.
What is utilize media/technology to communicate with parents?
Fostering a relationship between students and their learning is also a critical element of this.
What is successful school bonding?
Using a quiet voice and giving students at least 10 seconds to respond before repeating a request or adding a new request are two examples of this.
What is effective communication?
This simple action lets students know they matter and are valued as individuals within the school community
What is use students’ names positively?
Most students with behaviour and social difficulties find this type of group work challenging.
What is cooperative group work?
According to Brownlie and King, teachers who welcome parents into their classroom for purposeful and meaningful reasons extend this.
What is feeling of belonging?
This strategy involves rotating the displays frequently and ensure that at some point during the month each student has at least one piece of well-done work completed and displayed.
What is display samples of student work?
I messages and prompting with a questioning intonation are two forms of this.
What is verbal limits?
This has been identified in many studies as the most significant characteristic of an effective teacher (Di Guiulio).
What is enthusiasm?
Students need specific instruction about roles, responsibilities, and the expected outcomes of group tasks so we must teach what skills.
What is skills for cooperative learning?
This strategy recommends we communicate with parents about what is going well and the positive things the student shows an interest in.
What is share good news with parents?
This strategy involves creating opportunities for responsibility and leadership where?
What is the classroom?
Stephen Covey describes this as being like deposits in another person's emotional bank account.
What is noncontingent positive reinforcement?
When it is sensitive and good natured, it can defuse difficult situations, and brings people closer together.
What is humor?
This strategy requires us to explicitly discuss, demonstrate, and model how to give positive feedback to other students and how to graciously accept compliments and positive comments.
What is teach a vocabulary of appreciation?
This is considered an especially powerful method of communicating with parents.
What is a phone call?
Often called a PLC, this offers opportunities for colleagues to network and work collaboratively to improve teaching and learning
What is a professional learning community?