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Responsive Classroom
The Responsive Classroom is an approach to teaching and learning that seeks to balance teaching of academic skills with the teaching of social skills as an integral part of everyday school life. It is an approach to curriculum, classroom organization and management, and parental involvement grounded in the rich theory of child development, learning theory and developmental psychology. It is research-based and highly practical.
7 Principles of The Responsive Classroom
1. The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
2. How a child learns is as important as what they learn.
3. The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
4. There is a specific set of social skills that children need in orfer to be successful academically and socially:
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Assertion |
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Responsibility |
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Empathy |
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5. Knowing the children we teach individually, culturally, and developmentally is as important as knowing the content we teach.
6. Knowing the parents of the children we teach is important to knowing the children.
7. How the adults at school work together to accomplish their mission is as important as individual competence.
The components of classroom practice that teach these skills are:
:: Morning Meeting
which provides studentsdaily opportunities to practice greetings, conversation and activities, and motivates them for academic challenges of the day.
:: Rules & Logical Consequences
which are generated, modeled and role-played with students, and become the cornerstone of classroom life.
:: Guided Discovery
of learning materials, areas of the room and routines - a technique that moves students through a deliberate and careful introduction to new experiences. There is no assumption tht students already know how to do something before they begin.
:: Classroom Organization
that procides active interest areas for students, space for student-created displays of work, and an appropriate mix of whole-calss, group and individual interaction.
:: Academic Choice
for all students every day, in which they must take control of their own learning in a meaningful way, both individually and cooperatively.
:: Family Communication
a range of ideas for involving families as partners in their children's education.
These components can be implemented independently or together to enhance the social and academic curriculum. The Responsive Classrom is not a packaged program.
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