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What you do on the first days of school will determine your success or failure for the rest of the school year.’ Comforting words? Probably not. Yet the sentiment is sound and comes from a source with extremely useful and effective suggestions on how to build an educationally productive classroom environment.* You’ve probably already recognised that your best lessons will have less influence on your students’ learning if your norms and consequences aren’t effective. This scaffold will help you solidify them.
When should we implement these norms and consequences? The first days of school would be ideal; however, even in the last weeks of school, teachers who were desperate to find solutions for the classroom disruptions that impeded learning daily, through determination and effort, effected dramatic changes that caused the learning to rise exponentially in their classes. We include here some of the factors that helped them effectuate these changes.
This scaffold includes sound educational practices that are elucidated through the 5Cs (the structure touted by the CLIL approach), movement, interaction, and team building. The example here is inspired by a compilation of norms and consequences delineated by Primary teachers around the world. The most successful lists are concise and clear, and we share such a list with you that might be useful. You’ll see how the activity will enable you to take what you need, adapt the rest for your circumstances, and begin (or continue) the year with a strong sense of community and willingness from all, putting the focus on learning and not on constant disciplining.
*(Wong, 2009)
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