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Responsive Classroom teacher language is the professional use of words, phrases, tone, and pace to enable students to engage in active, interested learning; be contributing members of a positive learning community; and develop positive behaviors. It includes reinforcing, reminding, redirecting, and envisioning language. These types of language rest on a deep and abiding faith in the goodness in children, a belief in their desire and ability to learn. It also rests on faith in teachers’ ability to teach and bring out the best in children.

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Classroom Management & Discipline Discipline Special Times in the Year

Five Steps for Responding to Midyear Misbehavior

It’s January, and you notice that over the break your students seem to have forgotten all the routines they had been practicing since the start of the school year. Students ...

Families

Five Steps for Having Difficult Conversations With Parents

It’s midway through the school year and you notice one of your students has fallen into a pattern of missing work and struggling on tests and quizzes. You know it’s ...

Child & Adolescent Development Child Development

Midyear Child Development Review: Adapting to Students

At the start of the school year, as new classroom communities are forming, teachers begin planning ways to connect and form relationships with new students. By the middle of the ...