Build a supportive classroom community
Create a safe atmosphere for collaboration, sharing, and failure by fostering an open, kind classroom community
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State: Illinois
Are you currently teaching? : Yes
What grade do you teach?: Elementary/Primary
What subject(s) do you teach?: Elementary
Other: gifted
How many years have you been teaching?: 19
United States
"different colored pens"
I teach in an independent school for gifted children, preschool through 8th grade in suburban Chicago. I teach 4th grade, though I previously taught kindergarten. In addition to my degree in elementary education, I have two degree in music and play (French) horn. I play in several community groups including a band, an orchestra, and a horn choir. This summer I played an opera! I began doing design thinking/Creative Problem Solving with my students last year. I incorporated collaborative problem solving and improv into lessons. I blog about it at http://teachinglightning.blogspot.com/
Create a safe atmosphere for collaboration, sharing, and failure by fostering an open, kind classroom community
A positive, supportive student community is essential to successful risk-taking
I have never used Responsive Classroom, but I have heard good things about it. It would be a valuable addition to building a positive community in the school.
I completely agree! I like both having students share things about their own lives and having partners learn and then share about each other. Oftentimes one partner finds something interesting that the other partner never thought would be of interest to his/her peers.
Becky commented on Build a supportive classroom community