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Responsive Classroom is a philosophy that we use in our class. "The Responsive Classroom
approach to teaching and learning fosters safe, challenging, and joyful classrooms and schools."
This philosophy is built on seven basic principles.
Seven Guiding Principles For Responsive Classroom
The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand.
The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
There is a set of social skills children need in order to be successful academically and
socially: It uses the acronym C.A.R.E.S. and stands for cooperation, assertion, responsibility,
empathy, and self-control.
Knowing the children we teach—individually, culturally, and developmentally—is as important as
knowing the content we teach.
Knowing the families of the children we teach and inviting their participation is essential to
children's education.
How the adults at school work together is as important as individual competence: lasting change
begins with the adult community.
Class Rules
Our class rules will be established by our class during the first two weeks of school. We will
identify our Hopes and Dreams for the school year. Using this as our guide of how we want our
class to "be", students will help design our "guidelines" or rules for the year. I will post
them as soon as they are designed.
Consequences
We will not have a standard "consequence system" with listed consequences. As part of Responsive
Classrooms philosophy, we will use consequences logical to the behavior. Students will keep a
reflective journal to keep you informed. In the journal your child will tell you what they are
learning, how their day is going, their behavior and whatever else they choose. If the need
arises I will write to you in the journal. Feel free to write to me or respond to your child in
the journal. This also helps the children take ownership of their actions, their choices and
their day.
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