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E16S4: Positive Classroom Climate Set Up: A Guide (Part 1)



     A positive classroom climate is critical to student success. This episode takes a deep dive into the elements that go into creating such a climate. Here I share information from scholarly literature, as well as my own active research, on how to create a postive climate in your own classroom. You don't want to miss this!

0:00 Intro
4:33 Classroom Climate as a passion
6:50 Education as a way to make a difference
8:00 Our impact on students
10:55 Backstory on how I became interested in establishing a positive classroom climate
14:06 Positive Classroom Climate defined
15:00 Curricula separate from Climate
18:12 Why Classroom Climate Matters
18:49 Mutual respect
21:40 Academic efficacy
23:15 A higher sense of class belonging
24:00 Building relationships
28:44 Refrain from engaging in arguments
30:06 Encourage students
31:24 Sorry, my dog Basil starts barking in the background here
31:39 Deliberate, trusting relationships
38:36 Perception of teacher as supportive as predictor of decreased disruptive behavior
41:12 Conclusion
41:30 outro
References
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