An important read before completing the quiz below
Learning friendly classroom cultures
‘Culture’ concerns the details of the micro-climate that you create in your classroom. What you do and say, what you notice and commend and what you don’t, what kind of role model of a learner you offer, how you design and present activities.
Learning-friendly cultures systematically cultivate habits and attitudes that enable young people to face difficulty calmly, confidently and creatively. To do this involves moving the focus from what teachers do to a focus on what learners do. Moving from a focus on learning as a product or performance to a focus on learning as a process.
There are four shifts that make classroom cultures more learner friendly.
- How you relate to your students; gradually sharing more of the responsibility for learning with them
- How you talk about learning; the sort of language content and style you use to enhance and explain learning
- How you construct learning activities; the tasks and classroom routines you use to build positive learning habits
- What you celebrate about learning; what you prize, recognise, display; the outward signs of beliefs about learning.
The following Culture Questions help you to gauge how learning friendly your classroom culture appears to be now in these four areas. The results can be used to springboard your future action.
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