Establishing a Classroom Climate

A safe and inclusive classroom is a part of the essential needs for students' well being and performance. The social, physical and emotional aspect of a learning environment well defines its climate. The interaction between students and teacher, how she managed their students behavior, the giving of instruction tasks, and the arrangement of the classroom, these are factors that help to create a positive classroom climate. So teacher can cultivate and create a classroom and a businesslike climate that encourage on-task and engage the student behaviors by:

Enhance true dialogues instead of IRE cycles in the classroom: True dialogue  and discussions are valuable strategies for inquiry lessons that provide opportunities for students to share their own thoughts and experiences and speak from their own perspectives and help them to reason and think, rather than to simply parrot what they think teachers will judge as correct. Teacher can manage true dialogue in the classroom by: 

• Thinking about her/his questions. 
• Using tactical body language. 
• Using active learning strategies. 
• Creating a student led forum. 
• Creating a safe environment.

Minimizing transition times: Some amount of transition time is necessary in the classroom, but should decrease the overall wait time between activities, times when children are moving in the class, times when they are waiting for instructions or materials,..

Being demonstratively prepared, organized and with-it: Maintaining a well-organized classroom will help the teacher to manage the learning environment, and save much energy and wasted time. It's an important step to have organizational strategies in the classroom, for example: teach the students the routine of the classroom, be prompt to school or appointment,..

Using communication styles to create a comfortable, non threatening atmosphere: Teachers should create a friendly, non threatening classroom environment for their students, by using positive compliments, a welcome environment, where students feel comfortable and encouraged for learning, build activities and small group work that support students to work together and create prosocial behaviors.

Clearly establishing expectations for conduct: Set  clear classroom expectations that are taught with students to encourage positive behaviors, to provide students with a sense of safety and security, and to address students how to treat each other, and how they operate in the classroom to create a positive environment suitable for the learning process.