EMPLOYING INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM

ACTIVITIES IN PROMOTING FAIRNESS AND

POSITIVE CLASSROOM CLIMATE

TLE DEPARTMENT
LEARNING ACTION CELL
February 12, 2024

SPEAKER: DOROTHY D. MAGONCIA, MAEM

MASTER TEACHER I
 SESSION OBJECTIVES

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 POSITIVE
CLASSROOM
CLIMATE
 WHAT’S A POSITIVE
CLASSROOM CLIMATE
A positive classroom climate is one in which
students feel comfortable sharing their thoughts,
taking risks, asking questions and confronting
challenges in their learning. An educator can
create this type of environment by presenting
clear classroom expectations, providing
opportunities to improve social skills, building
relationships with their students and offering
relevant content.

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 WAYS TO CREATE A POSITIVE
CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
1. Build positive relationships - helps them feel as though they can come to
you with questions on assignments or when they're facing a challenge.
2. Arrange the physical environment - The physical environment of a
classroom provides a structure for students, which can decrease stress
levels and help them feel more comfortable in class.
3. Set high academic expectations - It's important to set high academic
expectations for your students early in the school year. Explain your
expectations by letting them know you're going to do your best to help
them learn and are always available if they need assistance, but in return,
you expect them to do their best on their work.
 WAYS TO CREATE A POSITIVE
CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
4. Provide positive reinforcement - helps to promote a strong classroom culture.
One method of positive reinforcement is through providing extrinsic motivators.
5. Encourage collaboration- students can lead to a more engaged class of students.
6. Be there for them- A simple, yet effective component of creating a positive
classroom environment is to provide support for your students when they need it.
7. Give students a voice and a choice - When students feel their opinion matters,
they're more likely to share during class discussions. Promoting student
empowerment begins with providing opportunities for students to share their
opinions, take risks and decide how they learn best.
 WAYS TO CREATE A POSITIVE
CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
8. Establish a routine- allows students to know what to expect each day when they
enter your classroom.
9. Create rules and expectations - helps maintain the daily structure of your
classroom and can aid significantly with classroom management.
10. Review classroom procedures- can be a beneficial way to create a routine and help
establish a pattern of predictability for your students. Procedures can be academic,
such as how you collect student work or grade their assignments.
11. Provide flexibility - beneficial to provide students with routines and procedures, it's
important to know when to be flexible with your expectations. Adjusting your
expectations to each situation that arises gives students the opportunity to see that
you can encounter challenging situations and provide them and yourself with
flexibility if needed.
 ICEBREAKERS – HUMAN BINGO

IN YOUR GROUP, ASK YOUR

GROUPMATES CERTAIN QUESTIONS ON
YOUR SQUARES. IF THE ANSWER IS YES,
HAVE THEM WRITE THEIR NAME ON
THAT SQUARE. you’ll need to have all of the
lines in a vertical or horizontal line filled out,
OR a diagonal line that passes through the
center. For either bingo, yell out “BINGO”
when you get it.
TIPS PROMOTING FAIRNESS AND
POSITIVE CLASSROOM CLIMATE
1. Evaluate Classroom Climate
2. Be Consistent
3. Are You Being Unfair?
• Steps to Treat Students Fairly
Know yourself and when you are having a bad day. Correct it right away, or
let the students know what is happening, if appropriate
Promote gender (and racial) equality in all subjects. Give equal praise and
expectations in math and science for girls and reading and writing for boys
Apologize when you make a mistake or have a misunderstanding. You will be
a great role model.
TIPS PROMOTING FAIRNESS AND
POSITIVE CLASSROOM CLIMATE
Create well-developed lesson plans, an organized classroom and
clear expectations for all students. Be prepared every day. Make
sure that all of your materials are gathered ahead of time.
Collaborate with students on projects and let them help to make
classroom decisions.
When selecting students to either participate in question and
answer or to help out in the classroom, always do it by random
draw, and keep track of whom you have called upon. Help a
struggling student individually.
Keep accurate assessment records. In addition to telling parents, let
students know their grades and where they need improvement.
 WHY INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES
IMPORTANT IN THE CLASSROOM
There are many benefits to interactive learning,
including improved academic performance, increased
engagement, and enhanced social skills through
increased public speaking opportunities.
Other benefits are:
• Student attentiveness
• Increases motivation
• Engage in different learning styles
• Cultivate critical thinking skills
• Provides flexible learning
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• Foster connections
 INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES IDEAS
Free Writing/Minute Paper/Question of the Day
Exercise

These are activities that prompt students to write a

response to an open question and can be done at any
time during a class. Writing activities are usually 1-
2 minutes and can focus on key questions and ideas
or ask students to make predictions. These activities
give students the opportunity to organize their own
thoughts or can be collected by the teacher to gain
feedback from the students. Advantages include
developing students’ abilities to think holistically
and critically and improving their writing skills.
 INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES IDEAS
Ice Breakers
Ice Breakers are low-stakes activities that get
students to interact and talk to each other and
encourage subsequent classroom interactions. They
can be useful at the beginning of the semester: for
example, asking students to introduce themselves to
each other and what they would like to learn in the
course. Advantages of icebreakers include:
participation of each student, the creation of a sense
of community and focusing students’ attention on
material that will be covered during the class
period.
 INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES IDEAS
Think–Pair–Share
This type of activity first asks students to
consider a question on their own, and then
provides an opportunity for students to discuss
it in pairs, and finally together with the whole
class. The success of these activities depends
on the nature of the questions posed. This
activity works ideally with questions to
encourage deeper thinking, problem-solving,
and/or critical analysis. The group discussions
are critical as they allow students to articulate
their thought processes.
 INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES IDEAS
The procedure is as follows:

1. Pose a question, usually by writing it on the board

or projecting it.
2. Have students consider the question on their own
(1 – 2 min).
3. Then allow the students form groups of 2-3 people.
4. Next, have students discuss the question with their
partner and share their ideas and/or contrasting
opinions (3 min).
5. Re-group as a whole class and solicit responses
from some or all of the pairs (3 min).
 INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES IDEAS
Debate

Engaging in collaborative discourse and

argumentation enhances student’s conceptual
understandings and refines their reasoning
abilities. Stage a debate exploiting an arguable
divide in the day’s materials. Give teams time to
prepare, and then put them into argument with a
team focused on representing an opposing
viewpoint. Advantages include practice in using
the language of the discipline and crafting
evidence-based reasoning in their arguments.
 INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES IDEAS
Interview or Role Play
Members of the class take the part or perspective of
historical figures, authors, or other characters and must
interact from their perspective. Breakdown the role
play into specific tasks to keep students organized and
to structure them so that the content you want to cover
is addressed. Preparation work can be assigned for
outside of class, so clearly communicating your
expectations is essential. Advantages include
motivation to solve a problem or to resolve a conflict
for the character, providing a new perspective through
which students can explore or understand an issue and
the development of skills, such as writing, leadership,
coordination, collaboration and research.
 INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES IDEAS
Jigsaw
A Jigsaw is a cooperative active learning exercise where students are grouped into teams to
solve a problem or analyze a reading. These can be done in one of two ways – either each
team works on completing a different portion of the assignment and then contributes their
knowledge to the class as a whole, or within each group, one student is assigned to a
portion of the assignment (the jigsaw comes from the bringing together the various ideas at
the end of the activity to produce a solution to the problem). In a jigsaw the activity must be
divided into several equal parts, each of which is necessary to solving a problem, or
answering a question. Example activities include implementing experiments, small research
projects, analyzing and comparing datasets, and working with professional literature. The
advantages of the jigsaw include the ability to explore substantive problems or readings, the
engagement of all students with the material and in the process of working together,
learning from each other, and sharing and critical analyzing a diversity of ideas.