These strategies are particularly useful for developing a classroom contract.
Students develop rules for the teacher.
This option invites students to formulate rules or guidelines that they want their teacher to follow. There is a paradoxical relationship between sharing power and having more. By empowering others, we tend to receive more authority and respect. Students take pleasure and pride in being given the opportunity to identify teachers' imperfections. When teachers respond by making some changes, students are empowered in a very positive way.