Creating the Dynamic Classroom, 5 Must-Haves for Teachers, 4th Edition: BOOK 1: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Environment

BOOK 1: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Atmosphere is the first in the series, CREATING THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM, 5 Must-Haves for Teachers, 4th Edition, in which dynamic teaching is effective, engaging, and motivating teaching and learning, whether in the face-to-face or online virtual environment.

BOOK 1: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Atmosphere

• Includes a focus on self-regulation, mental health, and wellness, with an emphasis on providing practical strategies and resources for helping teachers deal with anxiety in their students’ lives. This includes ideas about yoga, mindfulness, meditation, stress, and happiness
• Emphasizes strategies for being proactive in creating an inclusive classroom atmosphere as a way of instilling respect and cooperation and of valuing all learners’ contributions and diverse backgrounds
• Reinforces knowing your learners, and provides practical strategies for working with English Language Learners, students of differing backgrounds and religions, Indigenous Peoples, and students with special needs
• Provides strategies and resources for working with students who might be struggling with gender identity or transgender issues
• Addresses bullying and cyberbullying and how to deal with this as an educator
• Provides many practical strategies for a responsive approach to behaviours
• Includes practical and visual ideas about the design and organization of the classroom environment as an instructional strategy that plays a major role in the learning that occurs in the classroom
• Features important information on how to ensure clear and consistent communication with parents.

Specifically, the chapters include:
1. Building Inclusion - Practical Strategies for a Proactive Approach
2. Ensuring Inclusion - Practical Strategies for a Responsive Approach
3. Designing and Organizing the Classroom Environment
4. Partnering with Parents - Establishing Good Communication

Readers can access the Accompanying Downloadable Free Resources (Line Masters, PowerPoints, sample assignments) by going to BOOK 1 on the authors' website (at: creatingthedynamicclassroom.com) with a password found on page 90 in this book.

The 5 books in the series include:
BOOK 1: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Atmosphere
BOOK 2: Planning an Engaging, Dynamic, and Inclusive Curriculum
BOOK 3: Creating Effective Assessing, Evaluating, and Reporting Practices
BOOK 4: Creating a Student-Centred Literacy Classroom
BOOK 5: Lifelong Learning - Your Career in Education

This series is a comprehensive, practical, and important support for pre-service, in-service, and graduate teacher education courses as well as for new and experienced teachers and teacher leaders, consultants, mentors, and school administrators. Parents will also find these resources useful in providing them with a clearer understanding and appreciation of today's classrooms and how they can help their children at home.