Scheduling
This refers to the time allocated during the school day for each activity that must occur.
What is a schedule?
This refers to the overall atmosphere of the classroom environment
What is climate?
New content is delivered to the entire class in this type of instructional arrangement
What is whole-group or large-group instruction?
Explicit, teacher-led instruction is often referred to as this
What is direct instruction?
Diagrams that help organize information and show hierarchical, sequential, or comparative relationships
What are graphic organizers?
Just as procedures tell us how to do basic classroom activities, _________, tells us when those activities will occur.
What are routines?
This type of psychology focuses on strengths and virtues of an individual.
This type of instruction divides a class into two or more small groups
This is the process of joining discrete behaviors to form a longer more complex behavior.
What is chaining?
Commonly referred to as OTR's, this practice is beneficial in acquisition phase of learning
What are opportunities to respond?
This type of time refers to the amount of time that the teacher delegates for each instructional activity.
What is allocated time?
These are at the core of positive classroom climate
What are positive student-teacher interactions?
Small group instruction should be used as the primary form of instruction for students with these
What are learning and behavioral difficulties?
In the context of chaining, this process refers to gradually providing less and less assistance.
What is fading?
A teacher who continuously monitors the classroom by moving throughout the room is an example of this
What is active supervision?
This type of time is significantly positively correlated with academic achievement and appropriate behavior
Communicating these help set the stage for students to understand proper behavior
What are expectations?
A teacher works individually with a student to deliver instruction
What is one-on-one instruction?
In this practice activity, students work in pairs in order to practice basic skills.
What is peer tutoring?
Preference assessments can be used to help inform this type of practice.
Roughly, what percent of the day is spent in academic learning
This practice is one small way in which teachers can achieve positive classroom climate. Teachers are encouraged to provide four of these for every reprimand they give.
What is praise?
One-one-One instruction is beneficial for this
What is reteaching?
This practice activity with questionable research support refers to having students practice previously learned work outside of the instructional environment
Time adjustments, length adjustments, and input mode as well as response mode adjustments are all strategies that can help with this issue