Title: Identify classroom management strategies that promote positive student behavior.
Course: Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow I (19151-I) > Section: Applying Professional Teaching Techniques

Identification should include

- arranging the physical space to promote learning
- adhering to accessibility requirements
- ensuring a nurturing and respectful classroom climate
- ensuring gender, racial, and cultural equity
- maintaining teacher presence and involvement
- building teacher-student relationships
- practicing positive reinforcement
- involving students in establishing and posting classroom routines, schedules, and expectations
- enforcing student discipline and behavioral consequences
- providing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- utilizing appropriate instructional transitions.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How would the classroom environment promote positive behavior?
- Why is it important for a teacher to build relationships with students?

Communication

- What nonverbal communication can a teacher use to promote positive student behavior?
- What communication strategies can teachers use to establish classroom rules and expectations?

Leadership

- How can the teacher involve the students in establishing classroom rules and expectations?
- Why is it important for the teacher to model respectful behavior?

Management

- What behavioral consequences can a teacher use to improve student behavior?
- What are effective classroom management strategies?