Training Day

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Training Day

• What makes effective classroom climate?

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Prepare

• Job to do
• Think about what makes an effective classroom
  climate and write down one thing you think it
• Looks like
• Sounds like
• Feels like

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Objectives

1. Identify what makes an effective classroom
   climate.
2. Analyse elements of effective classroom climate.
3. Evaluate your own contribution towards creating
   an effective classroom climate.

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• Classroom climate is quite a wide-ranging
  concept, encompassing the mood or atmosphere that
  is created in the teachers classroom through the
  rules set out, the way the teacher interacts with
  pupils, and the way the physical environment is
  set out
• (Freiberg Stein, 1999, Creemers Reezigt,
  1999)

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Positive Teacher / Student relationship
Cheerful and inviting classroom
What makes an effective classroom climate?
Valuing Students Work
Enthusiasm
High Expectations
Pupil Interaction
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Teacher / student Relationships

• Supportive and consistent / No put down zone.
• Emotional and social needs, not just academic.
• Mutual respect
• Distinguishes between behaviour and person.

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A teacher who has personal enthusiasm

• Is passionate about their subject.
• Enjoys teaching Uses a variety of approaches to
  make their lessons more interesting for their
  students.
• Motivates inspires in students the willingness
  to be fully involved in their own learning.

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High Expectations

• Pays close attention to the progress of all
  students.
• Expects and gets high quality work.
• Gives positive, constructive and specific
  feedback, regularly.
• Asks Higher Order open ended questions to all
  students.
• Gives thinking time.

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Pupil Interaction

• Interaction is between teacher / students but
  also student / student.
• Effective questioning.
• Valuing contributions to group work.
• Gives consistent timely feedback.
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• Student clips

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Valuing Student work

• Sharing good examples.
• Praising high quality work.
• Displaying examples of good work.

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Cheerful and Inviting classroom

• Welcoming meet and greet.
• Organised.
• Bright and colourful.
• Comfortable.

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Construct

• 1) In 4s agree on some specific observable
  behaviours for an element of effective classroom
  climate that you have been issued.

5 minutes
2) Watch and analyse the clip of an
outstanding French lesson and record your
observations.
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Demonstrate

• In your colour coded groups you have 1 minute
  to feedback your main observations in the
  following order
• Positive Teacher Student relationships
• Enthusiasm
• High Expectations
• Cheerful and Inviting Classroom
• Valuing Students Work
• Pupils Interaction

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Demonstrate 2

• What would be your top 3 tips to develop an
  effective classroom climate?

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Review
1 question I have
2 areas to develop
3 strengths