Positive Classroom climates.

The feelings and beliefs that students have and the cumulative patterns of behavior that result from those feelings and beliefs regarding community and mutual support, risk taking and confidence, influence and control.

• Community and mutual support:

            - Students must know each others and know the teacher.
            - Greeting, listening, responding, acknowledging and affecting students.
            - Group identity, Responsibility and interdependence.
            - Social skills and group dynamics.
            - Problem solving and conflict resolution.

• Risk taking and confidence:

         - Errors.
         - Speed
         - getting help and confidence.
         - Effort and ability.

• Influence and control:

         - Stop the teachers watching
         - Negotiating the rules of the classroom.
         - Teaching students to use principles of learning.
         - Learning styles and choices.
         - using students and their communities as source o knowledge.