Regard for Child Perspective
This CLASS indicator includes giving children choices and classroom jobs.
What is Support for Autonomy and Leadership?
This indicator encourages creativity, brainstorming, and planning.
What is Creativity (Creating)?
This indicator occurs when teachers help children think deeper by asking follow-up questions.
What is Scaffolding?
This indicator encourages children to use language to explain ideas and actions.
What is Narration (Self- and Parallel Talk)?
Children share ideas, answer open-ended questions, and express opinions during activities.
What is Student Expression?
This indicator encourages children to think, predict, solve problems, and generate ideas.
What is Analysis and Reasoning?
This indicator provides children with specific information to expand their understanding.
What is Providing Information?
A child says, “I made a house,” and the teacher responds, “You made a big blue house with windows.”
What is Communication Extensions (Repetition and Extension)?
This behavioral marker refers to allowing children movement and active participation rather than long waiting times.
What is Allows Movement (Restriction of Movement)?
Children discuss how counting apples during the lesson is like counting fruit while grocery shopping with their family.
What is Connections to Everyday Lives (Connections to the Real World)?
This indicator helps children think about and explain their own learning process.
What is Prompting Thought Processes?
Children and teachers engage in a long conversation during snack about favorite foods.
What are Frequent Conversations?
Children become interested in worms outside, and the teacher extends the lesson to discuss them.
What is Child-centered (Flexibility and Child Focus)?
Children discuss how making tortillas with family is similar to cooking in the dramatic play area.
What is Integrating Connections?
The teacher tells a child, “You worked really hard to write your name.”
What is Encouragement and Affirmation?
The teacher introduces words like predict, enormous, and investigate during a science activity.
What is Advanced Language?
In this indicator, educators and children want to learn what others think and make room for a variety of ideas.
What is Child Expression (Student Expression)?
The teacher asks children to design their own bridge using classroom materials.
What is Creativity?
A teacher continues a conversation by asking questions and encouraging children to explain their ideas.
What are Feedback Loops?
The teacher asks, “How could we make the tower taller?”
What are Open-Ended Prompts (Open-Ended Questions)?