• Responsive Classroom Principles
    Seven basic principles underlie this approach:
    • The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
    • How children learn is as important as what they learn: Process and content go hand in hand.
    • The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
    • To be successful academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
    • Knowing the children we teach–individually, culturally, and developmentally–is as important as knowing the content we teach.
    • Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children's education.
    • How the adults at school work together is as important as individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community.

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