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School Climate Improves
When the school team explicitly teach values, routines and rules across the whole school and school building, it builds a sense of community. In individual classrooms and across the school, there is predictability, and this minimises disruptions and improves the school climate.
A positive high-expectations school sets the behaviours it expects to ensure that the entire school community is acting in the best way to achieve their school’s vision and mission. Teachers are at the core of this work, as they explicitly teach and reinforce values, routines and rules throughout the school day. Students understand that the expectations are the same in all school areas with any member of the teaching team.
The teacher/teaching assistant:
- models all values, routines and rules throughout the day at school
- explicitly teach the core values of the school every day
- celebrates student achievement in behaviour using positive reinforcement and other positive motivation techniques
- communicates positive behaviour feedback to parents to let them know how well their student is doing at school
- ensures the safety of their students by addressing and correcting behaviour that does not align with the expectations, rules and routines
- helps students feel empowered to do the right thing because they have a clear understanding of the expectations, rules and routines
- the school team creates a buoyant positive culture across the school that remains high as success drives greater success and the school team becomes motivated to constantly learn
- the school leaders identify classroom and school successes to sustain and replicate improvement, as success is a powerful motivator for achieving more success
- the school leaders evidence techniques and practices that lead to results, which guides the whole school team in replicating that success across the school and its classrooms
- the teacher/teaching assistant engages parents in their child’s learning by sharing positive outcomes and examples of student work with visitors to instil pride and further motivate student engagement.