The master teacher focuses on creating this before focusing on academics.
What is a positive classroom climate?
100
Productive student work areas, furniture placement and access to commonly used materials are all governed by this essential element of organization.
What is a functional floor plan?
100
The place where effective teachers are able to handle the majority of disciplinary situations that arise.
What is the classroom?
100
Instead of seeing students as “poor students” or “minority students”, effective teachers see them as these.
What are individuals?
100
This is an essential skill for all teachers, especially those with high-ability students prone to pursuing many diverse academic projects at once.
What is multi-tasking?
200
In addition to establishing and teaching them at the beginning of the year, effective teachers also do this with rules and procedures.
What is rehearse them?
200
Ensuring these between activities increases the amount of time spent on academic tasks.
What are smooth transitions?
200
Setting high expectations for this is just as important to learning as setting high expectations for academics performance.
What is behavior?
200
Teachers of at-risk students do not sit on the sidelines. They stay after school or come in early to provide assistance, help students set goals, and they do this as well.
What is provides support to achieve those goals?
200
As with an student, teachers of gifted students must take into account these two types of needs when addressing behavioral issues.
What are social and emotional?
300
When it comes to classroom management, this is the primary ingredient for teacher effectiveness.
What is readiness/preparation?
300
Effective teachers emphasize this in both student and lesson management.
What is structure?
300
A key component to trust are these two characteristics that a teacher shows in rule application.
What is fairness and consistency?
300
Effective teachers use this to diffuse difficult situations.
What is humor?
300
Effective teachers of gifted students must be especially comfortable in this role rather than as givers of knowledge.
What is facilitator of learning?
400
Good classroom managers are effective monitors and sometimes seem to have these additional body parts.
What are "eyes in the back of their heads"?
400
Teachers in effective schools reported higher priority and more instructional time devoted to ___________ than in less effective schools.
What is reading?
400
Learned helplessness can unfortunately result when a teacher fails to link ___________ to ____________.
What are consequences to actions?
400
This has a stronger impact on low-achieving students than high-achieving.
What is the teacher’s belief that they could make a difference? (Teacher Efficacy)
400
The constant activity in an effective classroom for high-ability learners should be of this nature.
What is divergent?
500
Effective teachers and classroom managers strike a balance between _____________ and _____________ in student activities.
What is variety and challenge?
500
Organization allows effective teachers to see this fundamental law of physics play out in their classroom in respect to learning.
What is the Conservation of Momentum?
500
Without trust, students' energy is diverted toward _________ and away from ___________.
What is self-protection and learning?
500
Seeking to understand these three things is the hallmark of caring teachers.
What are the needs, hopes, and aspirations of their students?
500
Effective teachers of gifted students recognize that inappropriate behaviors may reflect this.