Occurs when students feel known, valued, and understood when:
learning environments are safe and supportive and focus on positive relationships
there are high expectations that are consistent across the school
teaching strategies provide students with a sense of agency
From arriving to getting stuck into the learning
Bringing students together to look, listen and discuss
Sustaining students' effort and attention
Creating havens of silence for focused work
Switching activities and refocusing attention
Ending lessons in a productive and orderly manner
Blending warmth, kindness and assertiveness
Creating a positive atmosphere through affirmative language
The ideal positive, confident teacher demeanour
Affirming good behaviour; keeping poor behaviour in perspective
Developing a range of teacher-voices
Teachers modelling key attitudes and mindsets
Eduardo Brinceno's model for framing attitudes to learning
Five key elements in fostering student motivation
Six key ideas for supporting student learning
Key elements in teaching learners how to think about thinking
Five key concepts to support habit-forming
A summary of Nuthall's seminal book
Five ways to implement ideas from An Ethic of Excellence
A summary of Rosenshine's 10 famous principles
A highly popular framework for teaching and learning
Building a curriculum with Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric
Appreciating the wonder in our curriculum content
