HCDE | K - 12 Literacy
  • Home
    • About Us
  • Framework
    • Classroom Culture
    • Teacher Content Knowledge
    • Curriculum
    • Instruction
    • Habits of Interaction
    • Habits of Mind for Literacy
  • Balanced Literacy Components
    • Guided Reading
    • Independent Reading
    • Purposeful Practice
    • Reader's Workshop
    • Shared Reading
    • Word Study
    • Writer's Workshop
  • Curriculum Maps
  • Assessment
  • Professional Learning
    • Literacy Network
    • After School Support Sessions
    • Resources for Self Guided Learning
  • Resources
  • Middle School (6-8)
  • High School (9-12)

Classroom Culture

The teacher will create and maintain a classroom culture to ensure that students can engage in all aspects of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking in order to continually grow as literate citizens.

Content Knowledge

Characteristics of Effective Classroom Culture

  • Teacher and student interactions are respectful and conducive to learning.

  • Teachers provide clearly-stated high expectations and opportunities are provided for students to engage in a rigorous and challenging curriculum.

  • The Literacy Habits of Mind are the established norms for students’ and teachers’ approach to literacy in the literacy classroom.

  • The Literacy Habits of Interaction are established norms for how students and teachers communicate and engage in the literacy classroom.

  • Teachers explicitly teach and model classroom procedures and routines that are conducive to learning.

  • Teachers and students are individually and collectively accountable for the learning process.

  • Teachers plan and create opportunities for students to collaborate in the purposeful tasks to gain understanding.

  • Teachers create an environment that is print and text-rich. Classrooms contain libraries with an assortment of resources.

  • Teachers use flexible seating and scheduling in order to provide opportunities for best practices such as Socratic Seminars, partner work, small group, etc.

  • Teachers are reading/writing role models for students by reading/writing with students and discussing their personal reading/writing habits and passions.
Proudly powered by Weebly
✕