SCARF Classroom Environment Planning

SCARF Classroom Environment Planning

How to structure classroom environment to support domains of Human Social experience.

FIVE DOMAINS:

• status
• certainty
• autonomy
• relatedness
• fairness

Community and relationship building practices

Classroom environment.

Classroom routines

Examples of Classroom Routines

● Community circle ● Think-Pair-Share ● Turn and talk ● Talk to the text ● Connect-Extend-Challenge ● Gallery walk/Carousel ● Exit ticket

Examples of Classroom Environment

● Flexible seating arrangements ● Student thinking displayed on walls ● Stars ● Alternative reading places ● Student classroom roles board ● Group roles chart

Examples of Community and relationship building practices

● Share out of Do Now ● Creating norms as a class ● Community circle ● Think-Pair-Share

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