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

My presentation (full details)

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