Engaging students: creating classrooms that improve learning

• Provide all teachers with regular opportunities to collaborate with their colleagues and to give and receive feedback on how to Promote the use of evidence in classrooms improve the classroom climate for learning. [...] Get it wrong, and the classroom can become a place of stress, infecting the teacher and the students. [...] The climate that emerges in each class- Empirical studies consistently show that engaging and well-managed 5 room in the first few weeks can persist for the rest of the year.2 classrooms enhance student behaviour and achievement. [...] Grattan Institute 2017 11 Engaging students: creating classrooms that improve learning to the higher proportion of early career teachers in these schools.22 The uneven distribution of experienced teachers across the system can make the job harder for those in low-SES schools. [...] Students are not passive spectators in their classroom, so the teacher’s response to one misbehaving student can ‘ripple’ through the room.32 The teacher may be able to defuse the situation quickly, refocus the class and move on.