How can you develop positive interactions with students?
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Talk to the students - open the lines of communication between teacher and the students. (Talk with each student)
Observe how the students interact with each other.
Look at their past school records or IEP.
Ask students about themselves.
Activities o games to share (First weeks).
and their needs...
We work as a community.
+ Students collaborate with others.
+ Many times students work together.
+ Daily meetings.
+ Have fun together.
+ Use the word community to refer to the class.
Each student is important in our community.
+ Students knows the names of the other students.
+ Each student is welcoming everyday.
+ Photograph and works of students are posted in the classroom.
+ Teacher promote the participation of each student.
+ Each student have a daily responsibility in the community.
1. Know your Student.
The more you know your students better your relationship with them.
+ Students learn how interact with other when they observed how teachers interact with other adults or students.
Their interests...
Their games...
Their families...
+ Every time in the classroom is a opportunity to teach how to interact with others.
Their cultures...
Their movies...
Their places...
Their artists...
6. Model positive interaction.
2. Build a sense of community.
How can you develop positive interactions with Kindergarten students?
By Jaime Solano
I am a Kindergarten teacher in a bilingual school in Washington DC
"Arguably the quality of the relationships teachers have with students is the keystone of effective management and perhaps even the entirety of teaching."
(Manzano, 2007)
3. Student interests are part of the class.
5. Establish clear expectations and consequences.
+ Books about student interest (Read aloud and independent reading).
+ Projects/Tasks to select.
+ Centers/stations with different activities.
+ Groups of interest to work together.
4. Use a positive teacher language.
+ Create with students norms of their class at the beginning of the year.
+ Explain in each lesson the expectations.
+ Use a clear vocabulary/words to explain expectation.
Teacher Language Describing Student Work
Teacher language help students learning.
+ Use direct language.
+ Reinforce students' positive behaviors.
+ Use a warm but professional tone.
+ Find positives to name in all students.
You are a good listener...
I can see this table very quiet and focused...
You are doing a good job in the line...