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Re: The responsive Classroom
Posted by Chris on 7/12/08
On 6/27/08, sm wrote:
> On 6/19/08, Jennie wrote:
>> Is anyone familiar with this? I know that class meetings
>> are an important component. If you are familiar with it,
>> please let me know what you do in your classroom and if it
>> works.
>> Yes it works but you need to guide it, channel it, foster
> it and be comfortable with it. I actually find the
> responsive classroom to be a lot of common sense if we think
> of children as future citizens of a democracy. I'm sure I'd
> also find schools out there where responsive classroom
> wouldn't work but it works great in our school and in my
> classroom.
>
> You are still the guide - the children are learning how to
> self-monitor, be leaders, and some children are NOT
> comfortable with it. In fact, you'll find some kids trying
> to deliberately sabotage it. There are kids who don't want
> other kids to take any leadership, have any seeming power and
> those are the kids who will try to sabotage it.
>
> Remind those kids and all the others that school is supposed
> to be preparation for life and there's no time like the
> present to try to learn how to be a citizen, how to take
> charge, how to discuss differences, how to work toward
> compromise and consensus.
>
> In fact, are there more important skills than those? And yet
> most curriculums really don't include such things in any real
> way.
>
>
>> thanks
My son goes to a charter school where all teachers and staff
are trained in Responsive Classroom. I highly recommend any
teacher to investigate it. I have been in my son's classroom
many times in the past three years and the techniques seem
effective with all children. It helps naturally well-behaved or
orderly students maintain their comfort zone so that they can
continue to learn and develop (instead of feeling like they are
unusual for enjoying learning while the rest of the class runs
amok). It also helps highly distractable students (like my son)
because it gives them a firm set of expectations that follow
them through all classes, on the bus, in the cafeteria, etc. It
seems to be good for students and teachers. JMHO.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- The responsive Classroom, 6/19/08, by Jennie.
- Re: The responsive Classroom, 6/27/08, by sm.
- Re: The responsive Classroom, 7/12/08, by Chris.
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