This professional service provides positive classroom design strategies that support the learning environment, promote psychological well-being, and increase students’ intrinsic motivation to maximize instructional time. Some areas of classroom management include establishing rules, procedures, and expectations and incorporating social and emotional learning lessons to foster a community where students can engage in the learning process while enhancing skills in responsible decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, and relationship skills.
- Introducing and implementing procedures
- Creating and introducing positively crafted rules
- Using reinforcing, reminding, and redirecting as first levels of consequences to promote positive self-awareness and self-control in students
- Planning, facilitating, and debriefing social and emotional learning lessons, such as morning meetings in the classroom
- Focusing on positive interventions and consequences that improve SEL skills and avoiding punitive measures while disciplining children
- Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivators and how both can go hand in hand