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Edmonds outlined six characteristics essential to effective schools, including: Strong administrative leadership. High expectations. An orderly atmosphere. Basic skills acquisition as the school’s primary purpose. Capacity to divert school energy and resources from other activities to advance the school’s basic purpose.
Positive education is an approach to education that draws on positive psychology's emphasis of individual strengths and personal motivation to promote learning.Unlike traditional school approaches, positive schooling teachers use techniques that focus on the well-being of individual students. [1]
Positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) is a set of ideas and tools used in schools to improve students' behavior.PBIS uses evidence and data-based programs, practices, and strategies to frame behavioral improvement relating to student growth in academic performance, safety, behavior, and establishing and maintaining positive school culture.
Positive behavior support is increasingly being recognized as a strategy that is feasible, desirable, and effective. For example, teachers and parents need strategies they are able and willing to use and that affect the child's ability to participate in community and school activities.
For students who are feeling unwanted or unaccepted, a positive relationship needs to develop between the teacher and student before any form of discipline will work. Sanctions would be less needed if students have a strong connection with the adult in charge and knew that the teacher respected them.
A good example of this would be an adult reading a children's book. They would not feel challenged enough to be engaged or motivated in the reading. Csikszentmihalyi explained this using various combinations of challenge and skills to predict psychological states. These four states included the following: [67] Apathy low challenge and low skill(s)
Altercasting (positive): A person with "good" qualities would comply. For example, you tell Dick that because he is a mature and intelligent person he naturally will want to study more and get good grades. Altercasting (negative): Only a person with "bad" qualities would not comply. For example, you tell Dick that he should study because only ...
Teachers affect the self-confidence of their students depending on how they treat them. [65] Students who perform better receive more positive evaluation reports and have greater self-confidence. [66] Characteristically low-achieving students report less confidence, while characteristically high-performing students report higher self-confidence ...