Psychosocial Environment

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Psychosocial Environment

• EDEL 413 Classroom Learning Theory Management
• CSUB
• Winter, 2002
• B. Gibbons, M.A.
• M.Meade Mattias, M.A.

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Psychosocial Environment

• Emotional tone of the classroom
• Warm, supportive, pleasant anxiety-free
• is conducive for learning

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Psychosocial Environment

• Low affective filter, non-threatening
• General human relations skills
• Friendliness
• Positive outlook
• Ability to listen
• Ability to compliment genuinely

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Teacher Responsibilities

• Communicate the desired environment
• Set the conditions that initiate and sustain
• Show enthusiasm
• Stress the importance of each individual student
• Ensure a sense of belonging
• Ensure fairness
• Stress responsibility

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Assigning Classroom Responsibilities

• A simple and effective way to build a supportive,
  inclusive classroom community is to have students
  assist with daily operations of your classroom.

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Teacher Responsibilities, Cont.

• Show consistency with discipline plan and
  assigning student classroom responsibilities
• Exhibit friendliness and be approachable

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Teacher Responsibilities, Cont.

• Ensure success for all
• students through
• accommodations and
• support of learning

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Teacher Responsibilities, Cont.

• Show understanding and empathy when appropriate
• Be helpful and accessible throughout the day
• Have a sense of humor and be willing to laugh at
  yourself

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Student Responsibilities
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Relations with Students

• Give regular attention to all Ss
• Provide reinforcement to all Ss
• Show helpfulness and consideration to all Ss
• Set a good example by modeling the 7 ethical
  principles to establish a dynamic trusting
  environment

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Relations With Colleagues

• Be supportive to all colleagues
• Share the work load at your school site

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Relations With Colleagues

• Be willing to compromise and negotiate.
• Lead or follow as appropriate in a professional
  manner.

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Relations With Parents

• Communicate on a regular basis (weekly)

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Relations With Parents

• Describe your program and expectations

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Relations With Parents

• Emphasize their childs
• progress and
• achievements

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Relations With Parents

• Welcome parent volunteers
• who have proceeded to go
• through the parent volunteer
• process in the school/district
• office

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Relations With Parents

• Create a caring, positive and
• supportive learning community
• to promote life long learning

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Relations With Parents

• Get involved in community
• service projects with your
• students and parent
• volunteers

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Relations With Parents
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Relations With Parents

• Give future plans for their childs instruction

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Relations With Parents

• Conduct productive parent/teacher conferences
  always working
• In the best interest of each
• And every student

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Relations With Parents

• Be willing to work with parents
• on establishing home study skills

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Relations With Parents

• Brainstorm additional ideas with a partner
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• ___________
• ___________
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Teachers Should

• Model the desired behavior
• Provide verbal reinforcement as well as nonverbal
  support
• Hold classroom meetings to discuss solutions and
  rules and procedures
• Hold private discussions when needed outside the
  hearing range of others

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And , Remember the Golden Rule!

• Appreciate all the talents and differences that
  members of the school community possess

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Happy Valentines Day !!!

• Create classroom active participation activities
  that include all children and are
  developmentally appropriate practices which honor
  and respect all cultures and diversities