Culturally Responsive Teaching/What to look for in a classroom

 Reflection: Even though the Alfie Kohn chart is not that long of a read I still found it very interesting. In this piece is goes over various aspects of classroom decoration and atmosphere and talks about the good and the bad. When reading it I found myself thinking back to a lot of my classrooms that I had during my time in school and saw a lot of similarities in what the author described as good or bad classrooms and the relation to my own teacher's experience. When I began to start thinking back on my favorite teachers, I was able to see many of these classroom decorations coming into play. I originally only thought about my elementary school teachers because I thought that was where you see more decorations but as i thought more I realized my favorite High School teachers had many aspects of these factors too. One of my favorite teachers in high school was a law teacher. His class always had all these worksheets and other activities done by students decorating the wall. Photos of past students and current students were on the walls Even though his class was in a lecture hall he was always moving around and interacting with students, which added to his classroom presence. Even though it was a larger classroom there was stuff relating to the subject all over. I can see this piece connect directly to my own learning as I found my favorite teachers had these types of learning environments. When it comes to learning the environment that you learn in can play a drastic role in your education and I think its very good to understand that and be able to cater to the students.  

Here is another article which gives its own take on the perfect classroom.