Our Responsive Classroom Approach
Elora Road Christian School follows the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching, focusing not only on academic progress but also on the development of social-emotional competencies.
ERCS incorporates Responsive Classroom practices and strategies into our classrooms including:
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
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
ManagementA calm learning environment that encourages autonomy and personal responsibility
Developmentally
Responsive
TeachingTeaching and discipline is based on knowledge of student’s emotional and physical development