Inclusion, Respect, and Connectedness

Table of Contents

Routines and Rituals

• Round Robin

• Setting objectives

• Greeting each student

• Making eye contact

• Acknowledging birthdays

• Setting up norms

• Celebrating success

Student to Student Interaction

• Pair/Share

• Triads

• Classroom arrangement

• Study buddies

• Cooperative learning structures

• Blogs and discussion boards

Student to Teacher Interaction

• Modeling

• Conferencing

• Writers/reader’s workshop

• Random ways to call on students

• Empathetic strategies to be more approachable

Opportunity to Learn Backgrounds

• Collages

• Interviews

• Journaling

• Teachers share information about themselves (family photos, diplomas, etc)

• Text to me/text to world connection