Lesson 3: Creating a Safe Classroom
Lesson 3 - Creating a Safe Classroom
When creating a safe classroom environment for your students to work and learn in, there are many things to take note of and make sure you are doing as their educator. According to www.stopbullying.gov here are a list of things to do to make sure you have built as safe as an environment as possible.
Teachers can consider these ways to promote the respect, positive relations, and order that helps prevent bullying in the classroom:
Create ground rules.
Develop rules with students so they set their own climate of respect and responsibility.
Use positive terms, like what to do, rather than what not to do.
Support school-wide rules.
Reinforce the rules.
Be a role model and follow the rules yourself.
Show students respect and encourage them to be successful.
Make expectations clear.
Keep your requests simple, direct, and specific.
Reward good behavior.
Try to affirm good behavior four to five times for every one criticism of bad behavior.
Use one-on-one feedback, and do not publicly reprimand.
Help students correct their behaviors.
Help them understand violating the rules results in consequences: “I know you can stop [negative action] and go back to [positive action]. If you choose to continue, then [consequence].”
Many of these things are implemented by teachers each and every day in the classroom. However, as time goes by in the school year, some children forget the rules and need to be reminded of them. Perhaps have a weekly or monthly lesson on classroom behavior, each time addressing something different. Have students work together to solve potential problems that may arise in the classroom, or act out different scenarios so that they know what could happen, but also how to solve their problems in a practice and positive way.
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Final Task: Using the knowledge and information taken in from this wiki, create a power point presentation that is 8-10 slides long that you would show to your students about bullying, and what you could do to prevent it in a classroom.
Some things to think about including:
Examples of bullying scenarios they may have seen happen - including discussions on how they could take a stand to make them stop
What to look for when pin pointing a bully in the classroom or school environment
What they can do to help take a stand on bullying
The power point can include video clips to enhance the learning for students. Be creative, be resourceful, and help your students learn about bullying!
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