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Creating Positive Learning Environments: Classroom Rules

Developing classroom rules is a critical step toward increasing positive interactions and communicating in advance the expectations for classroom behaviour and the consequences. Rules help teachers identify which behaviours to positively reinforce and define which behaviours will elicit approval from the teacher. Therefore, rules serve as an effective antecedent control technique when developed and implemented …

Creating Positive Learning Environments: Classroom Schedule

Clear classroom expectations increase the likelihood that students will be successful in understanding what is expected of them. The classroom schedule allows the class members and teacher to anticipate what will happen during a school day. Guidelines for schedule development are as follows. 1) Teachers should seek student suggestions after ruling out nonnegotiable events and …