BP-14 (Grades K-12)
Knowing and Enjoying Your Students: Building Positive Classroom Learning Communities
Bill Jabs, Education Consultant, Sun Prairie, WI
wejabs@charter.net                              
  

Having difficulty incorporating energizers, group building activities and learning communities into your classroom? This workshop will give you practical tools to create a positive learning community that inspires the stages of inclusion, influence, and community in your room. Participants will experience, through participation, many practical strategies that will help build a sense of community and enhance all students’ success. Learn individual, small group and whole group activities that will
improve your overall classroom
management.

Participants will:

• Demonstrate creation of a positive learning environment in the classroom by teaching specific collaborative skills and creating classroom agreements for all students.

• Apply knowledge of the stages of group development to select appropriate cooperative learning activities

• Design active group learning experiences that develop student-centered classrooms.

• Understand the need for, and power of, reflective practice.

• Create activities from current lesson plans that incorporate collaborative skills, reflective practices, and authentic assessments.