Overall psychological atmosphere of the classroom.
What is Classroom Climate?
100
Shared belief that all faculty and studnets within a school are working together to help everyone learn and succeed.
What is Sense of School Community?
100
Action that disrupts learning and planned classroom activities, puts students' physical safety or psychological well-being in jeopardy, or violates basic moral standards.
What is Misbehavior?
100
Activity that promotes learning and development through participation in a meaningful community service project.
What is Service Learning?
100
Approach to instruction in which students learn one topic thoroughly before moving to a subsequent one.
What is Mastery Learning?
200
General sense that oone is an important and valued member of the classroom.
What is Belongingness?
200
Classroom management strategy in which a teacher gives the impression of knowing what all students are doing at all times.
What is Withitness?
200
Loss either of a previously earned reinforcer or of an opportunity to obtain reinforcement.
What is Response Cost?
200
Practice of individualizing instructional methods - and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional goals- to align with each student's existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
200
Introduction of a lesson that provides an overall organizational scheme for the lesson.
What is Advance Organizer?
300
Establishment and maintenance of a classroom environment conducive to learning and achievement.
What is Classroom Management?
300
Parents who are uninterested in their child(ren) education.
What are Reluctant Parents?
300
Unpleasant consequence that follows naturally or logically from a student's misbehavior.
What is Logical Consequence?
300
Approach to instruction in which one student provides instruction to help another student master a classroom topic.
What is Peer Tutoring?
300
Approach to instruction that uses a variety of techniques (e.g., explanations, questions, guided and independent practice) in a fairly structured manner to promote learning of basic skills.
What is Direct Instruction?
400
Shared belief that teacher and students have common goals, are mutually respectful and supportive, and all make important contributions to classroom learning.
What is Sense of Community?
400
Schools that encourage not only students but also family members to participate in school activities.
What is Welcoming Schools?
400
Consequence for misbehavior in which a student is placed in a dull, boring situation with no opportunity for reinforcement or social interaction.
What is Time-Out?
400
Knowledge and skills that help a learner find, use, evaluate, organize, and effectively present information about a particular topic.
What is Information Literacy?
400
Situation or event (often unplanned) in which students might be especially predisposed to acquire particular knowledge or skills.
What is a Teachable Moment?
500
Basic need to feel socially connected to others and to secure others' love and respect.
What is Need for Relatedness?
500
When teachers work together to create a sense of school community.
What is Collaborating?
500
Consequence for misbehavior in which a student is placed in a quiet, boring room within the school building, typically to do school work under close adult supervision.
What is In-School Suspension?
500
Approach to instruction in which students work with a small group of peers to achieve a common goal and help one another learn.
What is Cooperative Learning?
500
Taxonomy of six cognitive processes, varying in complexity, that lessons might be designed to foster.