Positive Framing / Joy Factor
Instead of saying, "Stop looking out the window," the teacher says this.
What is, "I need your eyes forward"?
What is meeting your students at the door?
What is Threshold?
End each class with an explicit assessment of your objective that you can use to evaluate your (and your students') success.
What is Exit Ticket?
The sign language t stands for this.
What is the bathroom signal?
Name this..."Ms. Evans briefly pauses her circulation and says, "I'm waiting on five students in the back corner to start tracking their own annotations right now."
What is Anonymous Group Correction?
Approaching behavior with a positive assumption.
What is "Assume the Best"?
What are the TLaC tranistion cues?
What is show me 1, 2, 3?
It is the first step in a great lesson - a short activity that you have written on the board that is waiting for students when they enter the classroom.
What is DO NOW?
Focuses on accumulating facts, rules, and fundamental knowledge across subjects, utilizing memory, songs, and observation.
What is the grammar stage?
Name it - a technique for managing classroom behavior by employing a calm, confident, and authoritative tone and posture, rather than loudness.
What is strong voice?
The technique of intentionally building joy, enthusiasm, and a sense of belonging into the daily learning process to make education engaging, not just a task.
What is joy factor?
Give students more practice when they are not doing the routine at 100%.
What is Do It Again?
Champion teachers help their students learn complex skills by breaking them down to be managable.
What is Name the Steps?
C A R E S
What is cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self control?
Name it - technique designed to normalize errors and promote a "culture of error" in the classroom.
What is my favorite wrong answer?
Describing the desired world and drawing attention to the good things happening, such as "I see five, six, seven hands. Now ten hands are ready to start reading".
What is "Narrating the positive" (or "Building momentum")?
Teach students the simplest and fastest procedure to executing key classroom tasks.
What is Tight Transitions"?
Students will learn more autonomy as they do this during class.
What is Board=Paper?
O-off tasks, B-blurt, L-language, P-physical
What is the schoolwide behavior tracker?
Name it - Sit up, Listen, Ask and Answer Questions, Nod your head, and Track the speaker.
What is SLANT?
True or False: When using joy factor students will want to achieve more and become more involved in the classroom.
What is TRUE?
Rolling out a new system or reintroductin or modifying old systems.
What is Better Late Than Never?
To do this you must: keep durations unpredictable, short, and reduce tranisition cost
What is Control the Game?
When students look in the direction of the person talking and may even turn their body to look at the person speaking.
What is track the speaker?
Name it - a classroom management strategy designed to gain students' attention quickly and quietly without yelling
What is above, pause, whisper?