Competencies for this Session

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• Discuss the strategies/best practices for creating and communicating classroom guidelines.

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• Identify effective principles for creating classroom guidelines.

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• Discuss guidelines for your classroom/lab.

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• Demonstrate “change of state” strategies

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Reflection

• Your classroom is your house.
• Each day you will be hammering a nail, placing a board or erecting a wall.
• What energy and commitment will you give to your house daily?
• What will your house look like at the end of the year?

Classroom

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Culture

What is Classroom Culture?

• Refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes, and written and unwritten rules that shape and influence every aspect of how a classroom functions.

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• YOUR expectations that students understand and follow

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• Your expections of yourself

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Formal Written Rules Class starts

at 8:00

Unwritten Rules

Students consistently show up at 8:05-8:10

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So, the unwritten rule is that class starts at 8:10

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Formal Rule Accepted Practice

In TWO words …

Instructor Expectations

Two words …

Have you considered?

How will the class start daily?

What will be the seating arrangement, and will it change from time to time?

Are students required to wear a uniform and, if so, how will you enforce it?

Allowing or not allowing food in the classroom.

Allowing or not allowing cell phones.

How will you handle students who are tardy?

How will you handle make up work for students who were absence?

What will be your method of questioning students?

What is your expectation for when students answer questions?

How often will you check for understanding?

How often and what type of assessments will you use?

Classroom Culture

Components of Classroom Culture

• Classroom Norms
• How you provide feedback
• Handling student behavior with respect and fairness
• Expectations
• Cooperative Work procedures
• HOLDING STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE
• Attendance, food, late work, actions in the shop, wearing uniforms
• Example – Cell Phones (Rule)
• Example - Asking questions (Strategy)

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Rules

• Rules are important but ...
• Rules, policies and procedures can help set up a successful classroom.
• Don’t spend the first days drilling down on your rules.
• Only essential – cover rest later.
• But don’t be a dictator.

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Consider your industry

• What will students' employers expect when they hire them.
• Consider building your rules, policies and expectations around the employer needs.
• Avoid rules that are your personal preference – (no hats, long hair, etc.)

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• Consider enforcing or reinforcing by using the way employers would handle a situation.

Let’s Take a Moment

• What do your employers want?
• Reflect and write (individually)

• What do your employers want?

THINK TIME

Write

Informing the Student

• Your rules, procedures, guidelines, and consequences need to be in writing.
• Make sure they are in line with College/Department
• Use your syllabus
• Consider a handout signed by students for your records
• Consider posters

If there is time

• _{At your table I will assign you a situation to discuss.}

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• _{Someone at that table will share your answer.}

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• _{When you are done with your answer – please sit.}

Change of State

Consider these situations and what you will do?

• Poor Attendance
• Poor Grade (consider situation)
• Poor Attitude (consider situation)
• Doesn’t talk with other students – sits alone
• Refuses to follow policies and procedures
• Creates a problem with another student or instructor
• Student gets injured
• Late assignments
• Tardy students
• Cell phones - inattentiveness
• Talking (disruptive) in class
• How to handle make up work?

Numbered Head Together

• Great to change the state
• Provides feedback to the instructor
• Groups who are struggling
• For today, number off 1-2-3-4-5
• Relocate to four corners and center

BE CONSISTENT

One last comment on Culture

Classroom Climate

The relationship between instructor & student/student and student

Students need to feel they are treated fairly

Need to build a positive relationship.

Reflect on these questions

How will you build relationships with your students?

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What will you do to make students feel welcome?

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How can you make students feel valued?

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What will you do to make students feel safe?

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How will you handled students who feel they aren’t being treated fairly?

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INSTRUCTOR

Competencies

Teaching Strategies

Lesson Planning

Manipulative Skills

Blooms

Assessments

TOOLKIT

KCWE

Summary

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• We defined classroom culture and climate

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• Discussed the strategies/best practices for creating and communicating classroom guidelines.

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• Identified effective principles for creating classroom guidelines.

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• Discussed guidelines for your classroom/lab.

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• Used “change of state” strategies

BE CONSISTENT