Domains
This domain focuses on teachers developing positive relationships with students, enjoyment of learning and comfort in the classroom.
What is Emotional Support?
This number range is used to score dimensions.
What is 1 to 7?
Indicators in this dimension include awareness, responsiveness, addressing student problems and student comfort.
What is Teacher Sensitivity?
The University the VDOE has partnered with to assess and support the quality of the Virginia Pre-School Initiative program.
What is UVA?
These are the three largest "buckets" for CLASS and include Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support
What are Domains?
This domain focuses on helping children get the most learning out of the school day, developing skills to regulate their own behavior and maintaining interest in their learning.
What is Classroom Organization?
Dimensions are subgroups for these.
What are domains?
Indicators in this Dimension include flexibility and student focus, Support for student autonomy and leadership, and student expression.
What is regard for student perspectives?
The UVA office that is specifically working with VDOE on VPI.
What is CASTL?
What are dimensions?
This domain focuses on promoting children's thinking and problem solving, using feedback to develop understanding of concepts and helping children develop more complex language skills.
What is Instructional Support?
This dimension reflects the emotional connection between teachers and students and reflects enjoyment communicated through verbal and non-verbal interactions.
What is positive climate?
True or false: All indicators are assessed holistically at the same time during the 15 to 20 minute observation cycle.
What is True?
The percent of VPI classrooms that will be observed by the end of 2020.
What is 100%?
These are observations conducted by outside contractors; every VPI classroom in Virginia will engage in this over two years.
What are external observations?
The indicators for this domain include positive climate, negative climate, teacher sensitivity, regard for student perspective.
What is Emotional Support?
This dimension includes teachers' awareness and responsiveness to students' academic and social-emotional needs.
What is Positive Climate?
Indicators of this dimension include clear behavior expectations, redirection of misbehavior and student behavior.
What is Behavior Management?
The reason why the VDOE is focused on VPI programs so strongly.
What is to improve student outcomes?
These are observations conducted by school employees; divisions are encouraged to grow local capacity for conducting them.
What are local observations?
The indicators for this domain include behavior management, productivity and instructional learning formats.
What is Classroom Organization?
In this dimension teachers maximize learning time, establish clear and efficient routines and make transitions brief and engaging.
What is productivity?
This dimension has bullying, sarcasm, and punitive control of students.
What is Negative Climate?
True or False: anyone can conduct a CLASS observation, regardless of training.
What is False?
This observational tool measures teacher and child interactions with a goal of increasing the quality of those interactions.
What is CLASS?