Create a Classroom Culture of High Expectations

With rigorous content standards in academic and career/technical classrooms, each teacher must establish and maintain a learning environment that supports and motivates students to do their best. This online publication explores the complexity of classroom management and how it is much more than a mere set of rules and consequences.

Implementation

Create a productive clasroom culture and maximize instructional time by reading and implementing these strategies:

1. Practiceconsistent routines aimed at higher student performance levels.
2. Make best use of student engagement time by consistently developing, communicating, and implementing classroom motivation and management plans.
3. Create classroom organization and arrangement spur productivity by emphasizing the importance of communicating high expectations.
4. Re-think classroom roles and improve productivity by seeing your students as workers and implement instructional activities that actively engage students.
5. Keep students on target by creating activities that interest them and have definite value.
6. Provide frequent and relevant feedback.

 

Classroom Management

Apply these ten strategies or adapt current routines/rules to establish high classroom expectations.