Creating a positive learning environment
How time is used?
Kinds of Curricula
Classroom organization
What is taught in schools?
100
Satisfaction, formality, competition
What is dimensions of classroom environments
100
The time teachers have allocated for instruction in various areas of curriculum.
What is allocated time
100
Implicit curriculum
What is hidden curriculum
100
A critical factor in creating a positive learning environment.
What is classroom organization
100
Reading, Spelling, and History
What is curriculum students experience
200
The caring classroom, the physical classroom environment, and classroom organization.
What is three important dimensions of positive learning environments.
200
Amount of time a student spends working on academic tasks with a high level of success.
What is academic learning-time
200
This program is more extensive at the secondary level.
What is extracurricular/co-curricular activities
200
Enables students to see the connection between classroom learning and the world beyond the classroom.
What is authentic learning tasks
200
Information or knowledge that students are to learn
What is course content
300
Demonstrating care through your efforts to help all students learn to their fullest potential will help you establish.
What is a caring classroom.
300
Amount of time students are actively engaged in learning activities.
What is time on-task.
300
Represents the publicly announced expectations the school has for its students.
What is explicit curriculum
300
Assigning students to classes on the basis of ability or achievements
What is between-class ability grouping
300
Explicit, hidden, null, extracurricular/co-curricular
What is four curricula all students will experience
400
Fresh air; painted walls; and a few prints or posters will help you create.
What is a positive learning environment.
400
Many high schools have implemented this to increase time for active learning.
What is block scheduling
400
Curriculum that cannot be observed directly
What is null curriculum
400
Type of grouping used widely in elementary classrooms
What is within-class ability grouping
400
Noted educational researcher who said "schools teach much more and much less than they intend to teach".
Who is Elliot Eisner
500
The middle front-row seats and seats on the middle aisle
What is the action zone
500
OTL
What is Opportunity to learn
500
Teachers, parents, students, and Fortune 1000 executives consider this to be the most important when a student is preparing for college or a career.
What is problem solving and critical thinking skills.
500
Small group assignments require that students help one another while working on a group project, group may compete, group members contribute to goals
What is key elements of cooperative learning
500
The kind of thinking that schools foster among students is largely based on
What is manipulations of words and numbers
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