## 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 |
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| 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. |