Classroom Setup
Management For Learning
Mental Wellness
Vocabulary 4 Teachers
Got Skills?
100
Most classrooms are designed around this viewpoint.
What is the teacher's viewpoint?
100
True or False--According to the authors, the most effective way to get a sense for what your students need and how they learn best is to administer the Student Learning Patterns Survey in a traditional manner.
What is false?
100
This is an important setting for the development of friendships at various levels, supporting students' social, emotional, and academic growth.
What is a school?
100
A state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people and the ability to change and cope with adversity.
What is mental health?
100
In setting up classrooms, it is important to include a variety of _________ to support developmentally appropriate teaching and learning.
What are spaces?
200
This is one easy step the teacher can take to help see their classroom from a student's perspective.
What is: sit where the students sit and evaluate?
200
Space for this and ready availability of manipulatives can support learning for all students.
What is small-group work?
200
Sudden change in academic performance, stress reactions, sudden change in typical behavior, outward signs or expressions of pain, abuse, or neglect, etc. are indicators of this.
What are indicators of a student's need for mental wellness support?
200
These help us to know what student information can or cannot be shared.
What are confidentiality regulations?
200
These are classroom elements that can be distracting to learners.
What are visual, tactile, and sensory stimuli?
300
This is one of the most useful tools in assisting teachers to assess their classroom structure and setup.
What is a colleague?
300
The authors suggest that classroom management begins at the physical, environmental, and _________ levels--with careful planning to ensure students are placed in an environment conducive to learning.
What is interpersonal?
300
These are crucial elements in students' academic success and mental wellness.
What are family, schools, and/or teachers?
300
Structuring classroom rules and procedures in equitable way that ensures equal access and participation for all students.
What is equitable practice?
300
Language differences, family relationships, socioeconomic stress, access to health and wellness care, and trauma are issues that affect this for students.
What is mental wellness?
400
This is the first step to evaluating your classroom setup.
What is sketching your classroom layout?
400
Knowledge or one's own cultural identity, awareness and familiarity with other groups, their traditions and norms, and transformative behavior change are distinct stages of this.
What is cultural competency?
400
A student's mental wellness may impacted by this when family members lack employment or affordable housing.
What is socioeconomic stress?
400
A teacher's awareness of their own preconceptions and biases so that they can consider how students' perceptions and abilities may differ from their own.
What is cultural responsiveness or cultural competency?
400
This is one way to assess the students' perspectives on the layout of the classroom.
What is observation/direct questioning?
500
A teacher must first understand this aspect of their students before establishing classroom setup and procedures.
What are cultural background and learning styles?
500
Room size, temperature, lighting, hidden or seductive hazards, location of posted rules and procedures, etc. are examples of variables contributing to classroom _________.
What is accessibility?
500
Students can each decorate a small piece of paper with an event from their own life, complete an oral history project, and create a family tree are examples of this.
What are project sharing student stories?
500
This involves placement of desks, accessibility of classroom materials, and the feeling of a welcoming climate--all important prerequisites for learning.
What is classroom management?
500
Some of the students for whom classroom setup may be a crucial factor in their ability to access learning are students with these.
What are attention difficulties, learning differences, autism spectrum disorders, hearing/vision impairments, ELL, physical/emotional/behavioral challenges, etc.?
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