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Strategies and Tips to Improve a Classroom Climate

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Strategies and Tips to Improve a Classroom Climate

The need for acceptance and respect is overlooked in many classrooms. It is sometimes difficult to accept the behavior of a given student, but the teacher should never communicate a lack of acceptance of the learner as an individual.

In fact, lack of respect by the teacher is often cited by learners as a reason for misbehavior. (Savage, 47) The best way to improve any classroom climate is to relate to students with dignity and maturity – that is, treat students with acceptance.

Here are some ways to demonstrate acceptance in a classroom:

Featured Author: Dorit Sasson
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Dorit Sasson is a New York City native and freelance writer. She teaches ESL (English as a Second Language) reading and writing courses at CCAC Allegheny Community College, and is the creator of the New Teacher Resource Center.

Dorit Sasson has written articles for a variety of journals, magazines, newsletters, and ezines like Reading Today, Essential Teacher, Teacher and Principal Quarterly, the Internet TESL Journal, WAHM Online, and many others.

Dorit holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees in English literature from the University of Haifa. She has taught English language learners in various schools in Israel for the last eleven years and returned to live back in the States in the summer of 2007.

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