How to create a positive school environment
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This document provides tips for creating a positive school environment. It begins by outlining some of the challenges schools face like bullying and disengagement. It then discusses how a positive school climate can help address these issues by decreasing things like absenteeism and increasing academic achievement. Some characteristics of a positive school climate are outlined, including safety, engagement, and contribution. The document recommends that schools assess their current climate, create a shared vision by gathering personal visions, and work together to carry out the vision in a fun, ongoing process. The overall goal is for teachers to want to come to the school's campus.
How to create a positive school environment
- 1. How to Create a Positive School Environment? Career Clinic We weave your dreams… Contact at: career.clinic.cc@gmail.com Speaker: Prof. Ghufran Majeed Hashmi
- 2. Challenge: If you’re a school leader, you have problems to solve: bullying, teacher burnout, disengaged students, casual vandalism and litter, and cultural and socio-economic differences, among others. Researchers have found that a ”Positive School Climate” can help solve a lot of those problems. Studies find that it decreases absenteeism, suspensions, substance abuse, and bullying, and increases students’ academic achievement, motivation to learn, and psychological well- being.
- 3. What’s included in it?
- 4. Teacher and Principal’s impact on student’s learning…
- 5. Challenge: (Cont…) But here’s the catch: Creating a positive school climate is really, really hard to do, as any principal will tell you. People have minds of their own, and you can’t make them feel peppy and optimistic on command. Here are some research-tested tips to get you started.
- 6. What does it look like? Let’s take a moment to paint a picture of positive school climate. When you walk onto a school campus, you can immediately get a sense of the school climate by watching the interactions between people and noticing the school’s physical environment. Do the teachers, students, and school leaders seem happy to be there and are they treating each other with respect? Is the school clean and orderly? Are the bulletin board displays sending out positive messages? Are students engaged in their learning?
- 7. What does it look like? (Cont…) In 2007, the National School Climate Council spelled out specific criteria for what defines a positive school climate, including: Norms, values, and expectations that support social, emotional, and physical safety. People are engaged and respected. Students, families, and educators work together to develop and live a shared school vision. Educators’ model and nurture attitudes that emphasize the benefits gained from learning. Each person contributes to the operations of the school and the care of the physical environment.
- 8. What to do??? It starts with “TRUST”, which researchers say is an essential prerequisite to a more positive climate Here are some research-based suggestions for school leaders on how to start cultivating a positive school climate:
- 9. 1) Assess the current climate. You have to know where you’re starting from in order to know where to go. And for those on your staff who might be less-than-enthusiastic about creating a positive school climate, asking them about their current experience will help get them on board because they’ll feel like their voice is being heard. Also be sure to include everyone’s voices: teachers, other school staff, students, parents—and your own.
- 10. 2) Create a shared vision—but start with personal visions. Research suggests that bringing everyone together to create a shared vision of the kind of climate they want increases the likelihood that the vision will actually be carried out. Senge defines personal vision as “a specific destination, a picture of a desired future”. So before creating a shared vision together, ask everyone to write down his or her personal vision.
- 11. 3) Work together to carry out the shared vision—and make it fun! Creating a positive school climate is an ongoing process that never really ends, but it’s a joyful one.
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- 18. So that your staff would say… Teachers “WISH” to come in your campus.
- 19. Heartiest thanks for listening me. Any Question please???