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Responsive Classroom
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In 2006 Galtier began using the Responsive Classroom approach to schoolwide discipline and classroom management.  About half of the Galtier staff was trained in this approach during the summer of 2006 and the rest should be trained by the begining of the 07-08 school year.  A brief summary of the beliefs and guiding principles of the RC approach is listed below.

Guiding Principles

The Responsive Classroom approach is informed by the work of many great educational theorists as well as the experiences of exemplary classroom teachers. Seven basic principles underlie this approach:






The
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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 set of social skills children need in order to be successful academically and socially: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
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Knowing the children we teach individually, culturally, and developmentally is as important as knowing the content we teach.

Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children's education.

How the adults at school work together is as important as individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community.
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Responsive Classroom Approach Linked to Academic and Social Gains for Children!
In a major study, researchers at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education found that children at schools using the Responsive Classroom approach showed greater increases in reading and math test scores. Read about this and five other key findings from the study. Click on the link below to see the full report.


 18 page report on RC effectiveness!   Here is the most comprehensive study to date on the results of using the Responsive Classroom method.
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