Welcome back to the Sustainable Teacher Podcast for episode 56, the Top 5 Attributes of a Sustainable Classroom Culture, and here’s the very first thing I want to say.
I think there should be an entire college course on classroom culture. I don’t say that about many things. I teach Intro to Educational Technology, and I think a course on classroom culture should come first. And here’s why… because it’s one of the top, if not THE top factor that will determine your sustainability and impact in your career.
It’s this awesome mix of knowing what you believe as an educator and making sure you always act from that space, helping you to recognize that your impact is greater than any mastered standard or test score.
So, I’ve got five of them for you today, and they each have a message of sorts that you could be sending to your students. And they are a part of a sustainable classroom culture because they compromise the messages, systems, beliefs and actions of your classroom that determine how your students will leave it feeling.
What these attributes look like in your classroom is what is unique about the culture you develop. This episode will give you the attributes and the resounding messages, but how those live out and present themselves in your classroom is up to you. And that’s a really cool part of what we do… that is, teacher autonomy… one of my favorite things about what we do as educators.
The attributes are in no particular order, nor is any one of them dependent upon or more significant than any other.
But here’s my goal for you… that after listening to this episode you’ll feel a certain level of teacher-bad-ass :). Truly. I want you to feel gung-ho and confident in your influence and impact with students through each of these messages you send through your classroom culture, all knowing that these messages are ones that will last the longest, longer than any amount of content.
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Alright, let’s get to it.
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