When teachers are involved in mealtime with questioning that expands children involvement, this actually does contribute to this indicator…
What is modalities of learning?
100
Asking open ended questions and encouraging complex thinking is an example of this indicator…
What is analysis and reasoning?
100
The teacher helps the child in understanding why there is no zero tile. Teacher: Why do you think there’s no zero? Child: Zero? Teacher: Would you be able to show zero? Child: No zero. Teacher: You don’t have to show zero. Why? Because zero is how many? Child:Nothing.
What is Assistance?
100
Using words children don't typically hear...
What is Advanced Language? or What is Variety of words?
100
At Last he became so angry that he pulled off his own cap, threw it on the ground, and began to walk away….
What is Caps For Sale?
200
If a child is able to demonstrate either through modeling or voicing what they just did, the teacher has accomplished this indicator…
What is clarity of learning objectives?
200
The teacher is not focused on getting students to provide a correct answer but rather on getting them to generate their own ideas is an example of this indicator…
What is creating?
200
This teacher notices a child stacking numbered tiles and asks him questions about what he is doing. Teacher: Oh, you’re putting them in order….I didn’t even look. Are mine in order? Child: Number 10. Teacher: Should 10 be on the top or on the bottom? Child: Bottom. Teacher: So what comes before 10? The teacher asks additional follow-up questions, such as “Is 10 on the top?” and “Zero is how many?”
What is Feedback Loops?
200
Describing what you are doing as you are doing it...
What is Mapping your own actions with language?
200
Sad Dad Bad Had Dad is sad. Very, very sad. He had a bad day. What a day Dad had.
What is Hop on Pop?
300
The teacher moves around the room asking students questions, playing with them, participation in their activities, and so forth are examples of this indicator in the high range…
What is effective facilitation?
300
The one thing a teacher can give children while focusing on this dimension is....
What is time to answer?
300
The teacher often queries the students or prompts students to explain their thinking and rationale for responses and actions.
What is High Quality of Feedback?
300
Teacher: What is this bumblebee eating?
Children: Flowers.
Teacher: Does it actually really eat the flowers?
Child: No, it eats the honey inside.
Teacher: They don't eat the honey inside; they make the honey. They drink the nectar inside. It’s like flower juice.
Child: What do they drink with?
What is Back-and-Forth Exchanges?
300
Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat…
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
400
To fully explore and be fully engaged in an area or activity is an example of this indicator…
What is student interest?
400
Teacher makes an active effort to link together different concepts that the students have been studying or ties together multiple concepts within a single lesson is an example of this indicator…
What is integration?
400
Take the time to listen and respond in a thoughtful way to what children have to say during group lessons.
What is Giving Specific feedback?
400
I’m going to give each of you two graham crackers. I’m opening the box, and now I am handing them out to each of you”.
What is self-talk?
400
He swung his achy legs out of bed, curled them back again and said, “Ugh. I don’t think I’ll be going to work today.”
What is A Sick Day for Amos McGee?
500
To act purposefully, with a goal in mind and a plan for accomplishing it is this…
What is intentional?
500
A teacher makes a consistent effort to make learning meaningful by helping students apply their thinking to everyday experiences is an example of this indicator…
What is connections to the real world?
500
When a teacher ask a series of follow up questions to elicit a deeper understanding from children. After a child responds, ask another question of that child or of the whole class. Keep this conversation going until you are sure children really understand what you are trying to teach.