Circle Time
During circle time, children are allowed to do quiet activities such as puzzles or read books if they are disinterested in the story the teacher is reading.
What is Respect for Student Perspectives?
When handing out snack, a teacher states, “I am giving Keith two carrots. One…two.”
What is Language Modeling?
A teacher tells a small group she is working with, “Last week we talked about the ice on the ground”. She asks children, “What would we need to make ice of our own?”
What is Concept Development?
A teacher raises her voice, “If you don’t clean up we will not go outside”.
What is Negative Climate?
Katherine is searching for the letter "K" in a bin of magnetic letters. The teacher notices she is struggling to identify the "K". She gives a hint that "K" is the first letter of her name.
What is Teacher Sensitivity?
Leila is poking at other children near her during circle time. The teacher notices and redirects her attention to their activity by asking her to come up and retell the story the teacher drew on the easel.
What is Behavior Management?
At breakfast, Elaine shares a story about their trip to grandma’s house over the weekend. The teacher asks, “What was your favorite part of the trip?” When Elaine says going to Chuck E. Cheese was her favorite. The teacher asks, “Why?” to keep the conversation going.
What is Quality of Feedback?
The teacher smiles and laughs with children as they play an alphabet bingo game.
Jordan tells the teacher the story she is holding to read is going to be about bears. The teacher asks, “Why do you think it is going to be about bears?”
What is Quality of Feedback?
A teacher gets down on the child’s level and makes eye contact to greet him at arrival to school.
What is Positive Climate?
During circle time, the teacher plays a song called Listen and Move. The teacher explains that the song is to help them learn to follow directions. Children listen to the song and participate in the movements described.
What is Instructional Learning Formats?
While eating snack, a teacher peels a mandarin orange and discusses the pieces of the orange. She uses the word “segment” and explains that the word describes the pieces that she pulls from the whole orange.
What is Language Modeling?
A teacher joins children in the dramatic play area where they are pretending to have a restaurant. One child appears to disengage and just sit there. The teacher hands the child a menu and asks him what he would like to eat.
What is Instructional Learning Formats?
When a child throws a block at another child, the teacher sighs loudly and says “How many times do I have to tell you not to throw things?”
What is Negative Climate?
While waiting for children to all get their coats on before heading outside, the teacher engages the children who are ready in a game of Simon Says.
What is Productivity?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
A teacher notices Apollo is having a hard time retelling the story with the felt board pieces. She pulls out the book and helps review the story with him to support his memory.
What is Teacher Sensitivity?
During an apple tasting activity, the teacher asks, “Which apple do you think you will like the best? Why?”
What is Concept Development?
The teacher sits with children for a small group activity. They will be tasting apples and the teacher has 3 different kinds of apples cut up as well as a graph for them to chart their findings. Everything is ready for the activity to begin.
What is Productivity?
Before heading outside to the play, the teacher reminds her students that to be safe everyone needs to use walking feet on the path to the playground.
What is Behavior Management?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Julio is the line leader today. When the children line up to come back inside, the teacher calls Julio to the front to lead everyone in.
What is Respect for Child Perspectives?