Chapter 4 gives examples for educators on how to create a classroom culture of success. Successful classrooms can be created by making criteria clear, encouraging efforts, and not favoring students who you think will do best, to name a few. Successful classrooms will drive student performance, and create a desire to learn. Its important to give students the steps on how to be successful in the classroom so they can model a hard work ethic for society as well.
It’s to be expected that “teenagers care about what people think of them, and so they feel intimidated”(65) but teachers can do many things to make their students feel comfortable in their class. When I was in high school, I often did not participate during class because I was convinced I had the wrong answer, and would fear judgement from peers. If a teacher had gone as far as simply stating, there are no wrong answers, or this is a judgmental free-zone, I would have been likely to share my ideas. When I am an educator I want my students to feel comfortable in my class, and feel as though it is okay to speak freely, because those are the ideas that further content knowledge and enhance everyone’s learning.
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