Creating a Welcoming Environment
Creating a Welcoming Environment
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In order to create an inclusive environment for your students to feel welcome and safe, build trust with real conversations and caring supportive actions. Promote engagement by providing intelligent, challenging content, with adaptive resources, tools and scaffolds to promote interaction and creativity. Teachers who provide and demonstrate effective learning habits will help students gain trust and confidence for their future endeavors.
In order to create an inclusive environment for your students to feel welcome and safe, build trust with real conversations and caring supportive actions. Promote engagement by providing intelligent, challenging content, with adaptive resources, tools and scaffolds to promote interaction and creativity. Teachers who provide and demonstrate effective learning habits will help students gain trust and confidence for their future endeavors.
Setting up your classroom.
Setting up your classroom.
* Create ways to recognize culture and self identity (languages in the classroom, display students' names and things about them, create a space for community to know and trust one another
* Create ways to recognize culture and self identity (languages in the classroom, display students' names and things about them, create a space for community to know and trust one another
* Provide calming spaces and moments-give breaks and escapes, yoga, self reflection, self care, play
* Provide calming spaces and moments-give breaks and escapes, yoga, self reflection, self care, play
* Organize spaces in the room for a variety of individual and group activities - where instruction, discussion, and quiet work are possible
* Organize spaces in the room for a variety of individual and group activities - where instruction, discussion, and quiet work are possible
* Post some of these visual schedules and classroom built expectations.
* Post some of these visual schedules and classroom built expectations.
* Use PECS to design individual menus of activity for students to see and understand.
* Use PECS to design individual menus of activity for students to see and understand.
Creating goals.
Creating goals.
One of the most important things you can do as an English Language teacher is to identify each child as a special and unique gift to your class. They will provide enrichment for cultural awareness, individuality, language and beliefs that you will not easily find elsewhere.
One of the most important things you can do as an English Language teacher is to identify each child as a special and unique gift to your class. They will provide enrichment for cultural awareness, individuality, language and beliefs that you will not easily find elsewhere.
- Reflect on what your own cultural beliefs and possible biases are. How do they affect the way you teach, what you teach, and how others perceive you.
Acquire Background Knowledge
Acquire Background Knowledge
* Reach out to the family to see if an early visit is possible. Alleviate fears and uncertainty for the student by introducing yourself and showing them around the school.
* Reach out to the family to see if an early visit is possible. Alleviate fears and uncertainty for the student by introducing yourself and showing them around the school.
* Find out information about where the student is from, what educational background they have had, who they are living with, what supports they have at home and in the community
* Find out information about where the student is from, what educational background they have had, who they are living with, what supports they have at home and in the community
* Decide what your goals for each child will be as you get to know them, and what they need.
* Decide what your goals for each child will be as you get to know them, and what they need.
When they arrive to class
When they arrive to class
* Find ways to build trust and mutual respect, welcome them when they arrive, provide a space that is theirs, talk about family and how they belong to the school community.
* Find ways to build trust and mutual respect, welcome them when they arrive, provide a space that is theirs, talk about family and how they belong to the school community.
* Provide access to multimedia, such as audio and visual resources
* Provide access to multimedia, such as audio and visual resources
* Collect realia (real 3D objects) to teach words, concepts and themes
* Collect realia (real 3D objects) to teach words, concepts and themes
* Create a diverse classroom library with cultural and linguistic variety
* Create a diverse classroom library with cultural and linguistic variety
* Show a few examples of student projects to help students anticipate what they will learn
* Show a few examples of student projects to help students anticipate what they will learn
* Discuss and create expectations as a class for individual and whole group behaviors
* Discuss and create expectations as a class for individual and whole group behaviors
* Display anchor texts and visuals to support student learning and activities
* Display anchor texts and visuals to support student learning and activities
* Acquire bilingual materials for student use
* Acquire bilingual materials for student use
* Have a welcome package of survival words and phrases available in their home language if possible, or visuals with basic ideas.
* Have a welcome package of survival words and phrases available in their home language if possible, or visuals with basic ideas.
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