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Part of the emotional support domain that reflects the overall level of negativity in the classroom.
What is Negative Climate?
Typically includes: table washer, meal helper, line leader.
What is a job chart?
Includes 4-6 weeks of detailed daily plans on specific topics.
What is a Teaching Guide?
A place where children, design, and experiment using different kinds of blocks and other related items. It promotes math, science, creativity, and social skills through hands-on exploration.
What is the Block Area?
Engages in conversations.
What is 10a?
Part of the emotional support domain that encompasses the teacher's awareness of and responsivity to student's academic and emotional needs.
What is Teacher Sensitivity?
A place where the whole group can meet and talk about what's going to happen that day, introduce new materials, have discussions, etc.
What is the large group area?
The first teaching guide that is used in a school year to familiarize children with people they encounter, materials in the classroom and creating classroom rules.
What is The First Six Weeks Building your Classroom Community?
A place where children engage in pretend play through role-playing. They create real-life scenarios. This play builds social, language, and problem-solving skills.
What is the Dramatic Play Area?
What is solves social problems?
What is 3a?
Part of classroom organization domain that focuses on the ways in which the teacher maximizes student's interest, engagement, and ability to learn from lessons and activities.
What is Instructional Learning Format?
Areas devoted to literacy activities, art activties, toys and games, block-building, dramatic play, discovery, and sand and water.
What are the interest areas?
Short, playful, teacher-led activities designed to build important early learning skills during transitions or brief moments during the day.
What are Mighty Minutes?
A place that focuses on the process of creating not the product. It has a variety of materials to develop fine motor skills and build creativity.
What is the Art Area?
Measures time and money.
What is 22b?
Part of the instructional support domain that measures the teacher's use of instructional discussions and activities to promote student's high-order thinking skills.
What is Concept Development?
A time when new concepts or materials are introduced or teach a specific skill for documenting children's skills and abilities.
What is small group time?
A planned, guided activity that focuses on a specific learning objective or skill, with the teacher playing an active role in supporting children's learning.
What is an Intentional Teaching Experience?
A cozy place where children explore books, listen to books, and develop early literacy skills in a relaxed environment. It's designed to encourage a love of reading and support language, vocabulary, and writing skills.
What is the Library Area?
Notices and discriminates discrete units of sound.
What is 15c?
Part of the instructional support domain that assesses the degree to which the teacher provides feedback that expands learning and understanding and encourages continued participation.
What is Quality of Feedback?
A part of the day that is long enough to give children a chance to select materials and activities, plan what they want to do, explore freely, and clean up afterward.
What is free choice /choice time or work time?
A tool that is designed to help teachers guide meaningful conversations with children about a specific book in the curriculum.
What is a Book Discussion Card?
A place where children can experience early math and literacy concepts through hands-on play with a variety of manipulatives and small games. It builds fine motor skills, problem-solving abilities and social interaction.
What is the Toys and Games area?
Retells stories and recounts details from informational texts.
What is 18c?