C. Each member of the community respects and is accountable to the others to behave in a way that is conducive to the learning and well-being of all.
1. Teachers help children develop responsibility and self-regulation.
Recognizing that such abilities and behaviors develop with experience and time, teachers consider how to foster such development in their interactions with each child and in their curriculum planning.
2. Teachers are responsible at all times for all children under their
supervision, monitoring, anticipating, preventing, and redirecting behaviors not conducive to learning or disrespectful of the com- munity, as well as teaching prosocial behaviors.
3. Teachers set clear and reasonable limits on children’s behavior and
apply those limits consistently. Teachers help children be accountable to themselves and to others for their behavior. In the case of preschool and older children, teachers engage children in developing their own community rules for behavior.
4. Teachers listen to and acknowledge children’s feelings and frustrations,
respond with respect in ways that children can understand, guide children to resolve conflicts, and model skills that help children to solve their own problems.
5. Teachers themselves demonstrate high levels of responsibility and self-
regulation in their interactions with other adults (colleagues, family members) and with children.