Classroom Management and Culture Plan Resources
MUST SEE: The Culture Chronicles (username: tal // password: talrubric)
Artifact / Key TakeawaysBuilding Relationships:
Campbell Glenn Clip
Student to family relationships / -You need to employ multiple strategies to build meaningful relationships with students and it can help to think outside the box at times. Ms. Glenn found a lot of success by leveraging her personality and getting comfortable sharing about who she is as a person.
Meg Stewart Clip:
Student-teacher relationships focus / -Meg does an amazing job of helping students feel heard and truly cared about in her class. She listens intently to when they share about who they are, and follows up (i.e. with written notes or extra support when students are having a bad day) so that they know she is there for there- no matter what.
Jeff Li clip:
[Focus on minutes :00-4:55]
Student-teacher relationships / -For some students, it may be harder to develop strong relationships right off the bat. It is even MORE important with those students to go above and beyond to get to know them outside of the classroom- just a conversation during independent practice won’t be enough. You need to push to spend time with students outside the walls of your classroom and even outside the school environment sometimes to build meaningful relationships with every student.
Setting Purpose: Investing students in things that matter- college, content and choices in life
Marquis Harrison / Strengths:
-Transparently sharing information with students to help fire them
-Clearly makes the point that their numeric bar is the floor- not the ceiling, which helps set high expectations
Areas for growth:
-The teacher doesn’t take the time to explain why 80% or allow enough opportunity for students to play a role in determining the goal itself
-We aren’t sure what steps Marquis took in advance of this conversation to get to know student and ensure a safe environment for tackling the issues of the achievement gap.
Oscar Perez / Strengths:
-Models how to share difficult information with students in a way that values both transparency and support to students as they grapple with this information
-Provides students an opportunity to develop their own goals so that it doesn’t feel only teacher generated
-Pushes students to set high expectations for themselves during one on one conversations
Areas for growth:
-could provide students with more rationale for how they could use this information, outside of the goal setting activity
Athena Turner:
[Memphis, ‘06]
Start of the year Investment Project / -This is an example of how teachers can build broader purpose so that students can get excited about college and career.
-As a bonus this opportunity also offers teachers a chance to get to know their students better in the first weeks of school.
-A key strength of this project is that it is a strategy that CMs could leverage throughout the school year. Individual goal lessons are helpful, but they alone will not do the job.