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If you truly wish to stand out from other teachers and be unique, first you have to find out what the vision, mission or motto of the school states. Study and understand it first because every expectations you set should incline towards the vision and mission of the school, these are what is used to define the standards.

Secondly, get acquainted with the schools policies, ground rules and regulations. These are usually created to achieve the visions of the school. Once this is done consider having some friendly chat with the class, remember you are a new teacher and some of them may not open up to you instantly, so be friendly and nice and much as you can and once you feel welcomed, you may start speaking with the children and getting there help in creating the classroom rules. It’s at this point you set up rewards and consequences for following or breaking a rule.

In summary, here are 9 tips for setting expectations for your classroom:

1. Get to know your pupils. Make the effort to memorize their names within the first day or two of class. You may want to consider a seating arrangement to help you with this. Find ways to learn about their background, likes, dislikes, etc. Check in with your students on a regular basis to find out how they’re doing in and outside of class, too.

2. Feedback is important in the classroom so feel free to ask them about their expectations for the teacher! And find out how they think you’re doing and how class is going. Just be sure to make adjustments to your expectations throughout the year, as needed.

3. Let the students know what the rules and expectations are on the first day of class. It would also be wise to communicate your expectations to the school head teacher. Send home a list of the rules for parents to review, sign off on, and return to you.

4. Be sure to model your expectations for the students. Let them see what you expect of them, and provide them with opportunities to practice them.

5. Establish your credibility by showing your enthusiasm and expertise for your subject. Let your students know how excited you are for them to learn in your class. Also, get excited for them when they succeed or grasp a new concept.

6. Your student look up to you as an expert and a genius in the subject field, it would be very embarrassing for you and a let down for them to discover that there are subject problems you can’t solve or answer. So from the first day let them know you are human and fallible (very capable of mistake just as they are ) and prepare ahead of every lesson.

7. Ensure good behavior are consistently rewarded and address negative behavior are addressed. Don’t ignore actions that go against the rules. You need to enforce the rules every day for every student. Their trust and your credibility depends on it.

8. Do not be afraid to improvise, innovate or restructure. You should identify areas that requires this and draw up contingency plans for them, you may speak with the school head if needs be. Your pupils which to come to school every day and learn something new and exciting; that means you have to find new and exciting things or ways to deliver the old ones in a new and exciting way.

9. Don’t set any cap or expectations limit to how much your pupils can achieve, create time for them to practice more if the wish to and encourage self-discovery and research.

And finally remember that faithfulness is what crowns all this effort. You must take extra steps to be faithful with your expectations, keeping to your words and classroom culture.

If you can put a check on these, you and your pupils are bound to stand out.