Assess the backgrounds of your children, their families and past experiences in schools. Upon admission, request student history reports and progress reports from former teachers. This information is valuable in that it can help teachers and administrators solve challenges with children who are struggling in school.
Find out what children are interested in. Children learn in many different ways. For instance, some children are more tactile and enjoy hands-on activities, and others prefer reading books and sitting quietly by themselves. Knowing this information can help teachers zero in on what interests a child and how a child might respond to a particular learning environment. Children who are engaged inside the classroom will be motivated to come to school and stay.
Offer a variety of learning experiences for children. Create learning activities that engage all of the senses -- visual, auditory and tactile. Observe which activities engage the children, hold their interest and inspire them. Plan to reuse materials and activities that are well liked by the students in a class. Discontinue using materials that the students don't seem to respond to.
Record how the children interact with other children in the classroom and how they respond to their teachers. Some children may respond well to certain teachers and not to others. Through observations and working together with parents, teachers can determine what behavioral techniques work and don't work with a certain child. If two teachers have problems with a child, the child may respond to the teacher is firmer instead of the one who is softer.