Positive Climate
This is the term used when teachers and children enjoy warm, respectful interactions and show that they value each other.
What is Positive Climate?
This term describes when a teacher allows students to make choices about what or how they learn.
What is student autonomy?
This strategy involves giving clear, concise directions and setting expectations for student behavior.
What is proactive behavior management?
This type of activity involves the teacher guiding children through a structured learning experience, where children are active participants in their learning.
what is expanding children's involvement?
A teacher explains how a seed grows into a plant and then encourages students to ask questions and share their own experiences with gardening.
What is analysis and reasoning?
Children exhibit this behavior when they help each other, share materials, or laugh together during an activity.
What is peer warmth and respect?
When a teacher builds off a child's idea or question instead of redirecting them, they are showing this.
What is flexibility and child focus?
When a teacher consistently follows through on rules, consequences, and praise, they are demonstrating this.
What is consistency?
This instructional method focuses on keeping students engaged with varied activities and interaction types, such as whole group, small group, and one-on-one.
What is Student Interests?
A teacher asks students to come up with their own endings to a story they just read, encouraging them to think creatively about the narrative.
What is Creating?
Teachers use these kinds of statements, like "I’m really proud of you" or "You’re doing great!"
What are positive verbal communications or positive affect?
A teacher supports this when they encourage students to express their opinions, thoughts, and preferences.
What is student expression?
This term refers to the teacher’s ability to prevent minor problems from escalating into bigger ones by recognizing and addressing early signs of misbehavior.
What is being proactive?
This happens when a teacher uses visual aids, hands-on materials, and activities to engage students in learning, rather than relying solely on verbal explanations.
what is Variety of modalities and materials?
A teacher helps students connect the math skills they’ve learned about measurement to a real-world task, like measuring ingredients for a recipe.
what is connections to the real world?
A teacher shows this when they kneel down to talk at eye level, smile, and use warm tones.
What is physical and emotional connection?
A teacher shows this when they adapt their lesson based on children's interest in dinosaurs instead of sticking rigidly to the plan.
What is integrating student ideas?
Teachers who use this technique address misbehavior calmly, while still emphasizing appropriate actions, rather than focusing on the negative behavior.
What is redirecting?
When a teacher facilitates an activity where students work together, problem-solve, and reflect, supporting the development of cognitive and social skills, it’s an example of this.
What is Effective Facilitation?
A teacher helps students understand how math concepts, like patterns and symmetry, can be found in the art they’re creating.
What is Integration?
This happens when both teachers and students initiate warm interactions without prompting.
What is mutual respect and enjoyment?
This happens when the teacher encourages students to take leadership in an activity or discussion.
What is promoting student responsibility?
This approach involves praising a student's appropriate behavior immediately after it happens, reinforcing positive actions in real-time.
What is attention to the Positive?
When a teacher asks students to repeat the learning goal in their own words at the start of the lesson, they are doing this to check for understanding.
What is Clarity of learning objectives?