Domains
Dimensions
Indicators
Bahavioral Markers
Other
100
Positive Climate is a dimension under this domain?
What is Emotional Support
100
Encompasses the teacher's ability to provide clear expectations and use effective methods to prevent and redirect misbehavior.
What is Behavior Management
100
Why or How questions are found under this indicator?
What is Analysis and Reasoning.
100
a small piece of information that helps you guess an answer or do something more easily.
What is a Hint.
100
This dimension is not just about the development of a specific concept but about teacher's use of strategies to encourage understanding and thinking skills.
What is Concept Development.
200
The teacher often uses discussions and activities that encourage analysis and reasoning under this domain.
What is Instructional support.
200
Maximizing Learning time and routines are just two indicators of this dimension.
What is Productivity
200
Eye Contact, Cooperation and/or sharing are found under this indicator.
What is Respect.
200
These 3 behavior markers can be found under the proactive indicator.
What is Anticipates problem behavior or escalation, low reactivity, and monitors.
200
A minimum of this should be obtained before scoring a teacher.
What is 4 cycles.
300
Measures, Assesses and Captures the children are all defined in this Domain.
What is Instructional Support.
300
Relationships and respect are part of this Dimension.
What is Positive Climate
300
Active participation, Listening and Focused attention are found under this indicator.
What is Student interest.
300
There are frequent positive communications, verbal or physical, among teachers and students when referring to these indicators.
What is Verbal affection, physical affection and positive expectations.
300
When scoring an observation, the dimension descriptions for the CLASS tool are on this scale range.
What is Low range, Middle range, and High range.
400
When obtaining Domain Scores, once all of the average dimension scores are obtained, the composite domain scores can be calculated by these.
What are Emotional Support, Classroom Organization and Instructional Support.
400
Assesses the degree to which the teacher expands learning and understanding and encourages continued participation.
What is Quality of Feedback
400
Hints or assistance are found under this indicator.
What is Scaffolding.
400
These three behavior markers can be found when a teacher is being creative.
What is Brainstorming, planning and producing.
400
Because of the highly inferential nature of the CLASS, scores should never be given without referring to this.
What is the manual.
500
Focusing on the ways in which the teacher maximize students' interest, engagement and ability to learn from lessons and activities are demonstrated under this Domain.
What is Classroom Organization.
500
Self and Parallel talk, advanced language and Repetition and extension are all part of this.
What is Language Modeling
500
Recognition, reinforcement, and student persistence are found under this indicator.
What is Encouragement and affirmation.
500
When the teacher consistently relates concepts to the students actual lives it could also be known as this.
What is real-world applications.
500
If a teacher is unresponsive to or dismisses students and provides the same level of assistance to all students, regardless of their individual needs, she would fall in this low range.
What is Teacher Sensitivity.