Reinforcing Kindness

in the Classroom

In my classroom, I believe the most important thing is to emphasize care and

kindness. My students will learn better from me if they know I care about
them, and they will learn better from one another if they apply the same
principle for their own relationships with others. With this in mind, it is
immensely valuable to find ways to reinforce kindness amongst students.
One of the ways this can be done is to have a classroom Bucket to keep full.
With my students, I read How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids by Tom Rath
and Mary Reckmeyer. After a class discussion, we filled our classroom bucket
with drops (kind things we did, or that others did for us) and made sure to
keep filling our bucket every week.