Well, can you recall your favourite teachers? What qualities make them so special? Is it just because they taught your favorite subject? Or because they were lenient with homework???? If not, what was the reason that you specifically recall these teachers over others?? I am sure it is because these teachers didn't essentially need any teaching aids as such. Their mere presence made you feel good and positive and craving to learn more.
Expertise in teaching and usage of appropriate teaching techniques to do so is a pre-requisite of being an effective teacher. However, a positive classroom too plays an important role when teaching.
For students, positive classrooms have come to mean places where students arrive at school ready to learn; work diligently to master academic standards; go home and accurately complete homework; and return to school the next day eager to learn more. Often, teachers are so focused on ensuring that students pass all the tests that they have little or no time to address students' social and emotional needs.
Education has to work for all stakeholders. By implementing the few of the strategies, we can combine the need for positive classrooms that support the whole child with the need for accountability and improved academic performance.
The Positive Action program may thus include few points as under :
1. Make Learning Relevant
Students are more engaged in learning and retain knowledge better when they see that it is relevant and vital to their own success and happiness. By giving students a say in how the classroom operates, teachers increase students' sense of ownership in the education process.
2. Create a Classroom Code of Conduct
A positive and productive classroom requires a common understanding of positive and negative behaviors. To establish this understanding, teachers ask students to identify the ways they like to be treated. This discussion elicits lists of behaviors that are respectful, fair, kind, and empathetic. Together, teacher and students conclude that treating others the way you want to be treated is the best code of conduct, and they agree that this code will dictate the behaviors that are appropriate for their classroom.
3. Teach Positive Actions
We need to teach students positive behaviors in a thorough, consistent, systematic way; we cannot assume that students just know them.
4.Instill Intrinsic Motivation
With practice, students learn that if they have a negative thought, they can change it to a positive one that will lead to a positive action and a positive feeling about themselves—a powerful intrinsic motivator.
5.Always Be Positive
Perhaps the most important strategy, yet often the most difficult to carry out, is to be positive—from classrooms to playgrounds, during school and after. There is always a positive way to respond to a situation. A positive attitude is the change agent that will create positive classrooms and schools that produce happy and successful students.
Therefore, the keyfacts learnt from our positive classroom is
We respect each other.
We try our best
We are a team
We learn from our mistakes
We create and
We celebrate each other's success.