RULES AND PROCEDURES TO CREATE A POSITIVE CLASSROOM

ENVIRONMENT

Rules and procedures in the classroom are set cope and harmonize with the needs

of every member of the class. Rules and procedures are also useful for students’ growth in

positive behaviors. Rules and procedures cultivate respect and one’s knowledge of

themselves and the surroundings. Rules and procedures are applied with the aim of setting

limits and controlling the attitudes of students who to achieve the conducive teaching and

learning process at school. Discipline has a significant relationship with learning

achievement. Rules and procedures  comfort and positive learning environment 

learning outcomes. Establishing rules and procedures should be one of the first things

teachers do so that expectations for the rest of the year are set (Wong, Wong, Rogers, &

Brooks, 2012).

Certain rules and procedures can significantly promote or hinder a positive

classroom environment. Which ones? There are types of rules and procedures should be

encouraged and discouraged. Meaningful lessons are the best thing to nurture positive

behaviors (Parton, 2009). This implies that the rules have to be supportive toward the

learnings activities. Learning activities involves all members of the classroom which means

all the students have the right to express themselves and describe their dream learning

environment. The educational environment is the best society and society is a democratic

spectrum, because every opportunity to work is in it (Dewey, 1916). A school is a place

for students to learn to live in a democratic atmosphere, while the teacher is a participant

who participates in guiding the teaching and learning process, and not as someone who has

full authority to decide everything. Students and teachers together must be free to set and
arrange the classroom rules and settings in agreement or actively sharing ideas in the

discussion. The democratic rules are surely to be encouraged, and the undemocratic rules

should be minimized, modified as needed.

How to see if a teacher has created a positive classroom environment by

implementing rules and procedures is by defining the criteria and indicators of a positive

classroom based of the purpose of the rules and procedures, and then teacher and students

do a regular reflection and evaluation together. Here are 3 aspects of assessment:

1. Learning outcomes

When a classroom is managed well with rules and procedures, the learning

will be productive (Wong, Wong, Rogers, & Brooks, 2012). The school year

will be full of positive progress with the teacher and the students experiencing

learning success.

2. Positive behavior development

When there is learning outcomes, there must be an effective teaching and

learning process. When there is effective teaching and learning process, there

must be a well-managed behavior that creates a positive interactions between

students, and students with teachers.

3. Teacher’s joy

Through a personal reflection, a teacher can describe what they feel about

the academic year: what to improve, what to change, and what to be grateful

for!
 References

Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education. Teddington: Echo Library. Teddington:

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Parton, L. (2009). Classroom teacher’s survival guide: Practical strategies, management
techniques and reproducibles for new and experienced teachers. John Wiley &
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Wong, H., Wong, R., Rogers, K., & Brooks, A. (2012). Managing your classroom for
success: Organization in the first week is the foundation for a successful school
year. Science and Children, 49 (9), 60.