Transforming Your Middle School and High School Classroom Culture into a Great Classroom Culture to Promote High School Readiness, College and/or Career Readiness, and Life Skills

This chapter describes the Great Classroom Culture (GCC), which is built on the 11 Great Teacher Language (GTL) Word Categories. In this chapter, you will find the GCC Framework for High School Readiness, College and/or Career Readiness, and Life Skills, which describes the transformational outcomes that middle school students, high school students, and their parents can experience when a teacher promotes the 11 GTL Word Categories in their classroom. Also provided are the descriptions of the 11 GTL Word Categories and how they help middle school students be prepared for high school and life and how they help high school students be prepared for college and/or career and life.