Fostering positive classrooms

This unit focuses on developing and maintaining learning environments that scaffold positive practices and manage learner behaviours. There will be opportunities to draw on your placement experience as you engage critically with the theoretical and practical content of this unit. You will explore and critique a range of teaching strategies, models and theories that will enable you to create structured, safe and positive classrooms, that respond to diverse whole school behaviour frameworks using consistent, rules and routines. You will examine practical examples and scenarios that frame how to build positive relationships in both physical and virtual learning environments. In the unit you will investigate, design and evaluate teaching spaces that enhance learning through personalised goal setting. Additionally, you will interrogate and analyse diverse approaches to responding to student behaviours in ways that prioritise learning and developing strong teacher-student relationships. Throughout the unit, you will be supported in reflecting on your role in influencing student behaviour and in developing the skills necessary to foster and maintain a positive, engaging learning environment.