Responsive Classroom

In 2019, ERCS shifted our classroom pedagogy to follow the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching. This program focuses not only on the academic progress of students but also on their development of social-emotional competencies.

The four Responsive Classroom domains are:

  • Engaging Academics (lessons are challenging and promote wonder and curiosity),

  • Positive Community (building a classroom and school community where students feel they belong and are significant),

  • Effective Management (a calm learning environment that encourages autonomy and personal responsibility) and

  • Developmentally Responsive Teaching (teaching and discipline is based on knowledge of student’s emotional and physical development).

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ERCS has incorporated many of the Responsive Classroom practices and strategies into our classrooms including:

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  • Daily Morning Meeting, Quiet, and Closing Circle times to allow students to connect with each other and their teacher

  • Interactive Modelling to teach new skills

  • Teacher language that helps to engage students in their learning

  • Logical Consequences as a non-punitive response to misbehaviour that allows students to fix and learn from their mistakes

Learn more about Four Domains of Responsive Classroom and how this translates into Classroom practices.