Big Ideas
Skill Clusters 1 and 2
Skill Clusters 3 and 4
Skill Clusters 5 and 6
Potpourri
100
The number of skill clusters in Jones's discipline model.
What is six?
100
In this classroom structure, students' desks are set up with 2 wide aisles.
What is interior loop?
100
This term is used to describe a more student-centered approach to teaching.
What is "Say, See, Do Teaching?"
100
Things outside of the individual that prompts the individual to act.
What are incentives?
100
Name an advantage of having the desks clustered in groups as opposed to having them in rows.
Improves the flow of the classroom, allows for group work, teacher can get to each cluster easily, etc.
200
This occurs when students talk when they shouldn't, goof off, daydream, or move about the room without permission.
What is massive time wasting?
200
This term is used to describe an expectation set in the classroom that everyone has an understanding of and typically feels fair is called
What is an agreement?
200
This term/phrase is used to describe a kind of teaching that does NOT support the students of a classroom.
What is "teacher-centered" teaching?
200
This rule states that “if you first eat your vegetables, then you can have your dessert.”
What is Grandma's Rule?
200
What is an advantage of getting student input in developing the classroom expectations?
The students will feel like they have ownership of the classroom.
300
In general, most lessons go fairly well until this part of the lesson.
What is independent practice/when students are asked to work on their own?
300
Incentives should have this kind of value.
What is instructional value?
300
This practice involves making eye contact with students and smiling at them.
What is good body language?
300
This term refers to students who constantly raise their hands and ask for help, no matter what the teachers does or says.
What are helpless handraisers?
300
True or False: A good classroom management plan focuses on preventing misbehavior before it happens.
True.
400
Teachers who exert power through body posture, facial expressions, eye contact, and physical proximity are using this type of communication.
What is nonverbal communication?
400
This type of rules need to be taught and rehearsed.
What are specific rules? (ex: bathroom procedures)
400
This occurs when the teacher crosses their arms and rolls their eyes.
What is bad body language?
400
This is the first step a teacher can use to redirect students when they are raising their hands helplessly.
What is compliment the student on what they are doing well?
400
Time allotted for activities such as learning games and enrichment activities.
What is Preferred Activity Time (PAT)?
500
Most discipline problems can be prevented by maintaining ______________________ during lessons.
What is active student involvement?
500
A rule such as "respect one another" or "do not hit" would be an example of this kind of rule.
What is a general rule?
500
True or False? Teachers who are more effective tend to put students to work from the start of the lesson.
True.
500
This is the third and final step a teacher can use to redirect students when they are raising their hands helplessly.
What is end on a positive note and be gone?
500
The term for pictures and other visual prompts that teachers use to keep students on task and engaged.
What are visual instructions plans (VIPs)?
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