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Creating a Positive Atmosphere

Actions that contribute positive energy
Students with disabilities sit among their peer group lunch and in the classroom.
Classroom teacher interacts with and teaches the student with disabilities.
Paraprofessional provides support and assistance to students in the classroom under the direction of the teacher.
Teachers and paraprofessionals greet each student or she enters the classroom.
Adults always speak with students in kind and respectful ways, never yelling or being unkind.
Adults confer and plan with individual students to improve their behaviors.
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	Actions that contribute negative energy
at	Students with disabilities sit with adults and are physically separate from their peers.
-	Paraprofessional delivers instruction to the student with disabilities. The special educator delivers instruction in a separate class.
all	Paraprofessional provides support exclusively to the student with disabilities.
as he	Paraprofessional interacts exclusively with the student with disabilities. The teacher does not greet or acknowledge the student.
fectful	Adults raise their voices and yell at students.
	Adults use humiliation, power, and control to change behaviors.