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Classroom rules

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

nounCore term

In education & teaching, classroom rules means: A short list of clear expectations about how students should behave in a class, often agreed together and displayed on the wall.

In Turkish: sınıf kuralları

How it is used

Teachers set, establish, agree on and enforce classroom rules, usually in the first days of the school year. Rules are best written positively ('Listen when others speak') rather than as a list of don'ts.

Example sentences

  1. On the first day, we agreed on five classroom rules and everyone signed the poster.

  2. Classroom rules only work if you apply them consistently.

Common collocations

  • set classroom rules
  • agree on classroom rules
  • enforce the rules
  • break a rule
  • follow the rules
  • classroom managementThe ways a teacher organizes the class, time, space and student behavior so that everyone can learn in a calm, focused and safe environment.
  • classroom routineA fixed way of doing a regular task in class, such as entering the room, collecting homework or moving into groups, that students learn and repeat until it becomes automatic.
  • disruptive behaviorActions by a student that interrupt teaching or stop other students from learning, such as shouting out, talking constantly or refusing to follow instructions.
  • positive reinforcementGiving something pleasant, such as praise, a reward or privileges, right after a desired behavior so that the behavior is more likely to happen again.

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