Goal 6: Teachers create and manage a stimulating, inclusive and safe learning community, where students take intellectual risks and collaborate.

6a Investigate and use a variety of classroom management techniques to establish and maintain a responsive environment in which all students are able to learn.

• Refer to my paper on classroom management in which I discuss how my classroom is maintained for optimal learning. In this paper I also discuss various other methods of classroom management that I have seen and explain what I have taken from them as well as what I have graciously left behind. By showing that I am conscious of different forms of classroom management and integrating them into how I teach my class it shows that I am maintaining a responsive environment that enables student success.
  

6b Establish and maintain a positive classroom climate in which students develop self-direction and collaborative skills.

• Refer to my evaluation made by my mentor teacher and supervisor. In this evaluation both master teachers show that I am above average in the environment I created. They have ranked me exceptionally high in this catagory for a first year teacher because of my ability to create a climate where all students are able to learn. Their high rating is evidence of this climate through their observations and time in my room.
  
• Refer to my paper on maintaining a climate in Tohatchi New Mexico where I taught freshman English on the Navajo Reservation. In this paper I write about how I entered the community as an un-trusted outsider that students did not want to talk with and was able to create an environment where discussion and collaboration occurred successfully. My time on the reservation is proof that I have been in difficult situations and worked hard to create a positive environment for all students.
  

6c Commit to ensuring student well being and development of self-regulation and group interaction skills.

• Refer to my evaluation by my mentor teacher and supervisor where they prove that I was able to maintain group interaction skills. The high rating on this evaluation, again, shows that I am able to create a group that interacts well with one another and creates optimal student learning.
  
• Refer to my paper on working as an instructor for Outward Bound Colorado as well as Outward Bound Australia where I show how I was able to help students work together for a common goal and facilitate success. Working for Outward Bound was my first experience as an educator, and pulling from these group experiences I am able to apply them to a successful classroom. My experience working with getting youth to become self-regulating goes back to this beginning of my educational career and the 6 years since have helped me refine and master the technique.