Psych Chapter 13 Creating a Productive Learning Environment

involves creating and maintaining a classroom environment conducive to students' learning and achievement

the general psychological environment that permeates classroom interactions

a sense that we and our students have shared goals, are mutually respectful and supportive of one another's efforts, and believe that everyone makes an important contribution to classroom learning

students see themselves as important and valued members of the classroom

they know-and their students know that they know- what students are doing at all times (scanning room, making eye contact, know who the perpetrators are)

school faculty members jointly and explicitly define, teach, and reinforce appropriate behaviors and provide varying levels of support tailored to students' needs

a shared belief that all teachers and students within a school are working together to help everyone learn and succeed.

any action that can potentially disrupt learning and planned classroom activities, puts one or more students' physical safety or psychological well-being in jeopardy, or violates basic moral and ethical standards

brief signal- a stern look or a verbal directive- to communicate that the misbehavior has been noticed and should stop

describe the effects of the problem behavior, including your personal reactions to it, in a calm, relatively non accusatory manner

combining behaviorist principles with other, more cognitively oriented techniques