Guiding Principals of Responsive Classroom
*The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
*How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go
hand in hand.
*The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
*There is a specific set of social skills that children need to learn and
practice in order to be successful academically and socially: Cooperation,
Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-control (CARES).
*Knowing the children we teach individually, culturally, and developmentally-
is as important as knowing the content we teach.
*Knowing the families of the children that we teach is as important as knowing
the children we teach.
*How we, the adults at school, work together is as important as our individual
competence: lasting change begins with the adult community.
To learn more about this approach, go to
http://www.reponsiveclassroom.org
If you want to attend a morning meeting to see for your self what we do in
room 12, just write int he book the day you want to come!