Classroom Climate

Explain the meaning and importance of classroom climate. Elaborate on the measures you will take to create a conducive classroom climate for first year students.

A classroom environment results in the increase of grasping power of students and they accept contents deeply. For better communication and response, a class should have healthy environment. A feeling of order in the classroom and methods of teaching gives confidence among first year students on their subjects. A teacher can enrich classroom learning by setting Managing Classrooms Climate, Tasks and Learning appropriate learning outcomes for students and tasks that will enable students to achieve those outcomes. Students should encouraged to take responsibility for their learning by determining.

Teachers and students need to discuss that rules and procedures are appropriate for the classroom. Rules and procedures should be developed in conjunction with teaching strategies that help students meet their personal and academic needs. Teachers need to ensure that students feel emotionally and psychologically safe and unthreatened. The teacher may model accepted behaviour by encouraging slow learners and adopting various techniques to present the lesson.

The physical arrangement of the classroom has a significant role to play towards establishing classroom climate conducive for learning. Towards this, I shall employ the following strategies:

1. Decide the seating arrangement according to the lesson to ensure interaction;

2. Ensure adequate lighting and ventilation in the classroom

3. Ensure availability of and access to learning aids, laboratory, blackboards, etc;

4. Frequently use activities that involve physical movement.

5. Talk directly to students rather than about them. When we do this, students are shown respect, and receive accurate information about adults' feelings.

6. Scan the class frequently in order to notice and respond to potential problems;

7. React calmly and quickly to a student's disruptive behavior in order to create a positive ripple effect;

8. Take positive initial contact with students by praising the positive behavior that competes with the negative behavior;

9. Make students clearly aware of the rules and procedures and the consequence for violations;

10. Remind students of the classroom rule or procedure they are not demonstrating;

11. Employ consistent consequences for misbehaviors;

12. Develop transition activities, implement structured activities that help students make transitions between active periods and quieter learning activities

13. Use group competition, questioning, engage student learning through cooperative group work, competitive teams, group discussions, debates, and role playing;

14. Establish routines for collecting assignments, distributing papers, etc., provide work of appropriate difficulty to complement varying ability levels, styles and interests;

15. Use praise to motivate students and reprimand to discourage undesirable behaviour in classrooms.