Standard II: Creates and Maintains A Safe and Positive Learning Environment

STANDARD STATEMENT II: The effective teacher consistently creates a safe and positive learning environment that encourages social interaction, civic responsibility, active engagement in learning and self-motivation.

Performance Criteria for Standard II: The extent to which the teacher:

1. Promotes empathy, compassion, and mutual respect among students.


2. Uses effective classroom management techniques that foster self-control, self-discipline and responsibility to others.


3. Models a caring attitude and promotes positive interpersonal relationships.


4. Promotes students’ intrinsic motivation by providing meaningful and progressively challenging developmentally appropriate learning experiences that enable student success.


5. Provides learning experiences which actively engage students as individuals and as member of collaborative groups.


6. Manages a classroom where students are encourages to reflect, express interests, make choices, set goals, plan and organize, self-evaluate and produce quality work.