Circulation is a skill that supports and maintains positive student behaviour. Intentional circulation is systematically moving around the classroom and standing in key places to observe and actively interact with students.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is a weekly behavior chart that is meant to be modified for your students and their unique needs.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This practice guide will support you to respond to behaviours associated with disengagement and disruption to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment for all students, and support students to focus on their learning. Positive learning environments are created when teachers establish and maintain positive teacher–student relationships and proactively teach, model, revise and reinforce the expected behaviours, routines and rules with their students. In a positive learning environment, expected behaviours are recognised, encouraged and reinforced using acknowledgement and praise.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners provides clinicians with actionable evidence-based practices for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. This approach combines developmental psychology and ecological systems in recognition of the fact that children’s developmental challenges, tasks, and capacities intersect with the risks and protective factors of their environment. Chapters feature detailed case studies and conclude with conversations with clinicians in which they share targeted recommendations for patient evaluation, treatment approaches, and family engagement and support.
Material Type: Textbook
The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has developed a suite of foundational resources for beginning teachers, teachers working in new environments, or experienced teachers who want to refine or refresh specific elements of their classroom management practice. They can be used to individually reflect on and refine one’s own practice, or as shared resources to support mentoring and other collaborative and whole-school approaches to improving classroom management. This user guide explains the resources and provides suggestions for their use.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is a template for an inquiry project in a senior level early childhood course.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Module, Reading, Student Guide, Unit of Study
This Module, a DEC-recommended resource, offers information on how to set up effective inclusive early childhood classroom environments for young children. It also provides details about the interrelated physical, social, and temporal components of those environments, as well as adaptations to help teachers meet the needs of children with disabilities (est. completion time: 1 hour).
Material Type: Module
This practice guide will help teachers understand the ways rules and routines support learning and how to equip students with the skills to participate in routines that support their learning. This practice guide will help you reflect and take action to develop your practice with a greater understanding of: *the ways rules and routines support learning *how to equip students with the skills to participate in routines that support their learning
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Planning for classroom management is important preparation for building positive connections and modelling, teaching, revising and reinforcing the expectations, routines and rules of the classroom. Effective planning will support you in promoting positive learning behaviours, reducing disengaged and disruptive behaviours, and effectively responding when they do occur.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This practice guide provides practical suggestions to build positive connections with your students leading to positive teacher–student relationships.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is a template for an inquiry project in a senior level early childhood course.
Material Type: Module
