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What is 3 times a year
How often are CLASS observations done?
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What are Positive Climate, Negative Climate, Teacher Sensitivity, Regard for Student Perspective.
Name two dimensions under Emotional Support
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What are behavior management, productivity, and instructional learning formats.
What are the three dimensions of classroom organization?
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What are concept development, quality of feedback, and language modeling.
What are the three dimensions under Instructional Support?
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What is to focus on the effectiveness of classroom interactions among teachers and children.
What is the purpose of CLASS?
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What are relationships, positive affect, positive communication, and respect.
Positive Climate is important in order to create a secure base for learning, and to motivate children to learn. Give 1 indicator of positive climate.
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What is clear behavior expectations, proactive, redirection of misbehavior, or student behavior.
What is 1 indicator that shows high behavior management?
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What is broadening their understanding of concepts and ideas
Is concept development broadening children's understanding of concepts and ideas, or rote instruction and recall of facts?
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What is from 1 - 7 with 7 being the highest (best)
How is CLASS scored?
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What are peer aggression, harsh voice, irritability, yelling, threats, physical control, sarcasm, humiliation, etc.
Negative Climate is the only score you want to score low in (1). What are behavioral markers that would increase the negative climate in the classroom?
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What is maximizing learning time, routines, transitions, or preparation.
A productive classroom feels like a well-oiled machine where everyone knows what is expected of them and how to go about doing it. What is 1 way to increase productivity in the classroom?
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What is analysis and reasoning, creating, integration, or connecting it to their real world.
What is 1 way to broaden a child's understanding of a concept or idea?
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What is 20 minute cycles - 3 to 4 times.
How long are the observations for?
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Can be any of the behavioral markers.
Teacher Sensitivity indicators include awareness, responsiveness, addresses problems, and student comfort. What is one way to increase teacher sensitivity based on these indicators?
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What is effective facilitation, variety of modalities and materials, student interest, clarity of learning objectives.
Instructional Learning Formats measures ways in which teachers maximize children's interest, engagement, and ability to learn from lessons and activities. What is 1 way you could maximize children's ability to learn from lessons and activities?
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What is because is provides motivation for children to stay engaged in, and get the most from lessons and activities.
Quality of Feedback is is providing children with specific, expansive information, related to their work or something they said, that helps them reach a deeper understanding of concepts than they could get on their own. Why is this so important?
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What are Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, Instructional Support
Name the three DOMAINS of CLASS
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Teachers intentionally and consistently place an emphasis on children's interests, motivations, and points of view. Teachers promote children's independence by providing meaningful roles for them in the classroom, encouraging them to talk, listening to their ideas, and allowing them to make decisions for themselves.
What does Regard for Student Perspectives mean?
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What is to help children focus their attention on the learning objective.
Why is clearly stating the learning objective important before giving a lesson?
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What is frequent conversations, open-ended questions, repetition and extension, self and parallel talk, or advanced language.
What is 1 indicator of language modeling?
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