Responsive Classroom

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Responsive Classroom

• The Seven Guiding Principles

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The Responsive Classroom approach is research
based.

• In schools using the Responsive Classroom
  approach
• 1. Children showed greater increases in
  reading and math test scores.
• 2. Teachers felt more effective and more
  positive about teaching.
• 3. Children had better social skills.
• 4. Teachers offered more high-quality
  instruction.
• 5. Children felt more positive about school.
• 6. Teachers collaborated with each other more.
• Dr. Sara Rimm-Kaufman, Curry School of Education,
  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• www.responsiveclassroom.org

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1. The social curriculum is as important as the
academic curriculum.
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2. How children learn is as important as what
they learn process and content go hand in hand.
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3. The greatest cognitive growth occurs through
social interaction.
21st Century skill collaboration
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4. 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).Assume nothingteach
everything!
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5. Knowing the children we teach-individually,
culturally, and developmentally-is as important
as knowing the content we teach.
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6. Knowing the families of the children we teach
is as important as knowing the children we teach .
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7. How we, the adults at school, work together is
as important as our individual competence
lasting change begins with the adult community.