Maintaining a comfortable classroom temperature, usually between 68°F and 74°F, also promotes increased student engagement and learning.
These methods help educators reflect on their own implicit bias, and build trusting relationships with their students, especially when students are from historically and systematically excluded groups and/or whose backgrounds are different from that of their teacher.
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Teachers can create a quiet classroom by reducing background noise, which supports increased Attention towards learning.
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Our Identities are what makes us who we are, and educators can help students recognize and celebrate their unique identities.
Teachers can create a quiet classroom by reducing background noise, which supports increased Attention towards learning.