Classroom Communities
A successful classroom community promotes positive social skills and academic achievement. Children learn best when they feel they are part of a community, where everyone feels accepted and where individuality is encouraged. Creating a classroom community requires planning and practice. Foster a sense of belonging where children learn how to participate in class meetings, work collaboratively, and resolve conflicts peacefully with some of these resources.
Trying to build strong communities in your classroom? Here are some useful websites to implement classroom communities since day one.
Building communities in the classroom
Teacher of color building classroom communities
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Ten ways to build community in your classroom
Here are some helpful books that will help you find more tips to for your classroom
Creating Classroom Communities of Learning: International Case Studies and Perspectives
A Learning Community in the Primary Classroom
Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Superior Learning
Here is an example of how to build communities in your classroom using technology.
| MayforCIS (2012). Communities In Schools Empowering Students, Building Community [Video file] [Video file]. Retrieved march 13, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c82vgBQ6i4Q |
This video shows a simple tip of how students should be involved in establishing a classroom where communities are important.
| Crabtree, A. (2013). Building communities in more ways than one [Video file] [Video file]. Retrieved march 13, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGk1tjAa1uY |
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