Manage Classroom With Flexibility & Composure

Clear expectations for student behavior and careful work on the teacher’s part to teach productive behavior to students, reward it, and strategically redirect off-task behavior help create classrooms that are productive learning environments for all. This practice includes not only skills for laying out classroom rules and managing truly disruptive behavior, but for recognizing the many ways that children might act when they actually are engaged and for teaching students how to interact with each other and the teacher while in class.  To do this, teachers believe that every content area has norms and practices for how people construct and share knowledge.  As such, teachers believe that teaching students these norms and practices, showing why they are important, and providing opportunities to use them is crucial for building understanding and capability in a given subject.  (Adapted from TeachingWorks High Leverage Practices) 

RANDA Connections: IIA, IIB; IIC; IIIC; IIID; IIIE; IIIF