Standard 2: 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:

• Promotes empathy, compassion, and mutual respect among students.
  
  
• Uses effective classroom management techniques that foster self-control, self-discipline and responsibility to others.
  
  
• Models a caring attitude and promotes positive interpersonal relationships.
  
  
• Promotes students’ intrinsic motivation by providing meaningful and progressively challenging developmentally appropriate learning experiences that enable student success.
  
  
• Provides learning experiences which actively engage students as individuals and as member of collaborative groups.
  
  
• Manages a classroom where students are encourages to reflect, express interests, make choices, set goals, plan and organize, self-evaluate and produce quality work.