Research School Network: How do we make classrooms joyful? Part of the Big Question series: exploring what makes classrooms joyful.

The Big Question Series

Teaching involves making hundreds of decisions every day. Many of those decisions are shaped by bigger questions about how pupils learn, what motivates them and how schools can help them succeed. Each webinar in The Big Question Series starts with one of those questions and explores what the evidence can tell us about it. Along the way, we will examine different perspectives, consider the implications for practice and reflect on what this might mean for our own classrooms.

How do we make classrooms joyful?

In this session, we will explore what the evidence can tell us about joy in the classroom. We will reflect on the role of belonging, relationships, motivation, success and challenge, and how teachers can create classrooms in which pupils thrive.