Creating a community in the classroom
Key Points.
- Building classroom communities increase students' engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning.
- Common ground activities, sharing circles and working towards a common objective promote a sence of community in the classroom.
Practical Recommendations.
Recommendation 1: Sharing Circles
- Ask students to form a circle
- Play a funny game (wink crime for example)
- Introduce the topic of the sharing session: Gratitude, Forgiveness, Failure
- Make it clear that not everyone has to share. Make it clear that the objective is not to hear from everyone but to build a positive energy together as a group: one can contribute by sharing or by attentively listening
Experiment on Gratitude and Happiness
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Experiment on Forgiveness and Happiness
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ROSE BLANCHE (par José Marti)
Je cultive une rose blanche En juillet comme en janvier pour le grand ami vrai qui me donne sa main franche. Et pour le cruel qui m'arrache Le coeur par lequel je vis Chardon ni ortie je ne cultive je cultive une rose blanche. |
LA ROSA BLANCA
Cultivo una rosa blanca En julio como en enero Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazón con que vivo Cardo ni ortiga cultivo cultivo una rosa blanca. |
picture by Ben Earwicker, Garrison Photography, Boise, ID
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Recommendation 2: Using 'I' messages
- Rather than blaming/accusing the other person, use 'I' messages to explain to the other person how some types behaviour provoke your anger and frustration.
- I feel (Insert feeling)
- When (Insert Behaviour)
- Because (Insert explanation of how the behaviour triggers the feeling)
Recommendation 3: Be mindful of what you communicate nonverbally, through your behaviour and your attitude
"Face to face with my students, only one resource is at my immediate command: my identity, my selfhood, my sense of this “I” who teaches" (Parker palmer, The Courage to Teach)
"Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher" (Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach)
"Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher" (Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach)
Slides.
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