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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Education Development Trust
  • Year 1: First half-term: establishing a positive climate for learning

    • Intended outcomes

    The intended outcomes of this activity are for you to:

    Learn that:

    • Teachers have the ability to affect and improve the wellbeing, motivation and behaviour of their pupils.
    • Setting clear expectations can help communicate shared values that improve classroom and school culture. - Establishing and reinforcing routines, including through positive reinforcement, can help create an effective learning environment.
    • A predictable and secure environment benefits all pupils but is particularly valuable for pupils with special educational needs.

    Learn how to develop a positive, predictable and safe environment for pupils, by:

    • Establishing a supportive and inclusive environment with a predictable system of reward and sanction in the classroom.
    • Giving manageable, specific and sequential instructions.
    • Checking pupils’ understanding of instructions before a task begins.
    • Using consistent language and non-verbal signals for common classroom directions.
    • Using early and least-intrusive interventions as an initial response to low level disruption. - Responding quickly to any behaviour or bullying that threatens emotional safety.

    Learn how to establish effective routines and expectations, by:

    • Creating and explicitly teaching routines in line with the school ethos that maximise time for learning (e.g. setting and reinforcing expectations about key transition points).
    • Reinforcing routines (e.g. by articulating the link between time on task and success).