Aligned to CLASS domains
LARGE GROUP
SMALL GROUP
INDEPENDENT CENTERS
Circle Time Story Time
• Conversation between teacher and children
• Shared
• Children cooperate and share • Teacher positively communicates with each child • Open-ended questions invite children’s individual perspectives
• Fosters
interactions • Teacher calls children by name
peer-to-peer conversation sets positive expectations
Maximize Positive Classroom Interactions Teachers can assess and optimize their interactions with students through CLASS, which gives teachers with the knowledge they need to deliver the best learning experience possible for each and every child.
Positive Climate
• Teacher
• Talk together about children’s experiences and perspectives • Welcome opinions
• Open-ended questions encourage children to
• Children direct their own learning
Regard for Student Perspectives
share their ideas about the book
• Actively engage children using
• Guiding question helps focus children’s attention toward learning objectives • Open-ended questions encourage higher level thinking
• Every child participates in hands-on learning
• Varied materials support multi- modal learning
Instructional Learning Formats
a variety of modalities
• Build
• “Connect to Large Group” reminds children of prior learning and prepares them to apply it in hands-on activity move through the hands-on activity, teacher asks them to explain their thinking • During activity, teacher uses language to describe what children are doing • As children
• Conversation prompts encourage children to Apply, Investigate, Evaluate, and Extend feedback that encourages children to persist in their purposeful play • Teachers and children talk to each other about what they are doing • Teacher provides
background knowledge related to Weekly Concept
Concept Development
Comments
• Teacher provides
• Differentiated support for read-aloud discussion
guidance and scaffolding during Background Building • Teacher uses scripted instruction to introduce new vocabulary to children
Quality of Feedback
based on children’s individual responses
• Teacher asks open-ended questions about the text
Language Modeling
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