CREATING POSITIVE CLASSROOMS & SCHOOL SERIES

The classroom environment should facilitate learning for all students. The workshop
is based on three key assumptions: (1) that every student needs to succeed, (2) that
students must learn to take responsibility for their actions, and (3) that dignity and
respect characterize all successful classroom management approaches. Participants will
learn how to teach students positive social skills and responses, and create structures and
procedures that help students to understand what is expected and to accept responsibility
for their actions. The workshop will also demonstrate specific strategies that teachers can
use to deal with difficult students and to respond to their parents. The workshop can be
tailored to meet the needs of preservice, beginning, elementary or secondary teachers

Jaci Smith