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Positive Interactions to Promote Your Classroom Community with Families and Students

Carisa Alvarado, Marian Moore-Rounds and Kira Smith. Positive Interactions to Promote Your Classroom Community with Families and Students. Promoting Positive Communication . Among children Can help children in creating important social skills that will help in making and maintaining friends.

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Positive Interactions to Promote Your Classroom Community with Families and Students

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  1. Carisa Alvarado, Marian Moore-Rounds and Kira Smith Positive Interactions to Promote Your Classroom Community with Families and Students

  2. Promoting Positive Communication

  3. Among children • Can help children in creating important social skills that will help in making and maintaining friends. • Among Adults • According to the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning, children who had secure relationships with their teachers demonstrated lower levels of challenging behaviors and higher levels of competence in school. Promoting Positive Communication

  4. Clean Up Time • Sharing in responsibilities • Classroom Jobs • Friend Helper • Solving Social Conflicts • Using Positive Communication • Voting on Activities • Shared Reading Activities that Can Promote Positive Communication (Among Students)

  5. Communicating to the Family How Important They are to the Classroom Community

  6. Many families are not aware that the support that they provide to their children in school is essential for their child’s success (National Education Association, 2002-2012). Communicating to the Family How Important They are to the Classroom Community

  7. Positive Communication • Daily Greetings • Birthday cards • Modeling positive behavior • Focus on the positive • Parent as a partner with the teacher • Family conferences • Family Surveys • Classroom Orientations Activities that Can Promote Communicating to Families

  8. Engaging Families with Their Children in a Positive Interaction in the Classroom Community

  9. According to research that was done on student achievement (A New Wave of Evidence), “When school staff engage in caring and trusting relationships with parents that recognize parents as partners in the educational development of children, these relationships enhance parents’ desire to be involved and influence how they participate in their children’s educational development”(Henderson & Mapp, 2002) Engaging Families with Their Children in a Positive Interaction in the Classroom Community

  10. Including students & families in lessons • Picture books • Making classroom/family books • Home Activities • Including students & families in School Events • Field Trips • Classroom Parties/Dances Activities that Can Help Families to Become Part of the Classroom Community

  11. Discussion

  12. We Share Everything by Robert Munsch • Mine, Mine, Mine by Shelly Becker • The Little Rose by Sheri Fink • Coley and the Big Storm: Together We Can by Lisl Fair & IsmedyPrasetya • The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister • Swimmy by Leo Lionni • Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt by Lisa Campbell Ernst • Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor • The Name Jar by YangsookChoi • The Sandwich Swap by Kelly DiPucchio • Those Shoes by MaribethBoelts Children’s Books Related to Promoting Positive Interactions/Community Between Children in the Classroom

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