Positive environment for learning - Correct Answer is a place where students are
engaged and learning. Involves using preventive, proactive strategies rather than
becoming immersed in reactive disciplinary tactics.
Effective classroom management - Correct Answer maximizes children's learning
opportunities: the most effective approach to classroom management is to create a
happy and productive learning environment and to minimize behavior problems and
other disruptions
Goals of effective classroom management - Correct Answer 1. Maximize instructional
time and students' learning time and minimize non-goal-directed activity 2. Prevent
students from developing problems. Keeping students busy with active, appropriately
challenging tasks, having activities in which students become absorbed and motivated
to learn, and establishing clear rules and regulations leads to fewer academic and
emotional problems. In poorly managed classrooms, students' academic and emotional
problems are more likely to fester.
Assessment - Correct Answer The purposeful gathering and analysis of information
about student learning
Evaluation - Correct Answer The process of making judgements about the quality of
something
Assessment literacy - Correct Answer Knowledge and skills for collecting, analysing and
interpreting assessment data and evidence of learning, and for applying this
information.
Assesment for learning - Correct Answer Assessment with the goal of improving
learning
Classroom management - Correct Answer The actions of teachers to create a planned
and organised classroom environment that supports student learning and
socioemotional needs
Interventionist philosophy - Correct Answer A belief that children´s learning and
behavior is an outcome of external factors
Interactionalist philosophy - Correct Answer A belief that children´s learning and
behavior results from an interaction between internal and external factors
Non-interventionist philosophy - Correct Answer A belief that allows for children´s
learning and behavior to accur naturally.
Differential teacher-student interactions - Correct Answer Qualities of the interaction
between teacher and student that lead to different types of relationships.
Sustaining expectation effect - Correct Answer Expectations that teachers have for their
students, which may influence student´s achievement or wellbeing in the classroom.
Ecological perspective - Correct Answer A view of the classroom as an environment
with unique purposes, dimensions, features and processes that have consequences for
the behavior of people in that environment
, Self-monitoring strategies - Correct Answer A self-regulatory strategy in which a student
pays attention to their own thinking or behavior and can take steps to change or correct
that behavior
Self-talk strategies - Correct Answer A self-regulatory strategy in which students can
use internal dialogue in their own mind to send themselves messages about their
behavior or performance.
Assertive discipline - Correct Answer A high level of teacher control, with firm limit
setting and supportive feedback
Whole-school approach - Correct Answer An approach that recognises that commitment
and cooperation is needed from all members of the school community - teachers,
students and parents - to prevent and address bullying
Punitive approach - Correct Answer Based on the belief that the bully must be
punished, and this punishment will stop them from bullying again.
Zero tolarence approach - Correct Answer A response to bullying or other misbehavior
that reflects extreme intolarance for antisocial behaviors of any kind, allowing no
compromise and usually resulting in strict punishment, such as school expulsion
The Authoritarian classroom management style - Correct Answer is restrictive and
punitive. The focus is mainly on keeping order in the classroom rather than on learning.
The teachers place firm limits and controls on students and have little verbal exchange
with them. Students tend to be passive learners, fail to initiate activities, express anxiety
about social comparison, and have poor communication skills. The teachers engage
students in considerable verbal exchanges and show a caring attitude. However, they
declare limits when necessary, clarify rules and regulations, establishing these
standards with input from students.
The Permissive classroom management style - Correct Answer offers students
considerable autonomy but provides them with little support for developing learning
skills or managing their behavior. Students in these classrooms tend to have inadequate
academic skills and low self-control. This style encourages students to be independent
thinkers, active, self-regulated learners, but still involves effective monitoring.
Time management - Correct Answer The organization and use of time in the classroom
is under the direct control of the teacher. Many quite different factors reduce the time
available for instruction. Allocated time refers to the opportunity for the entire class to
engage in learning activities. Engaged time is the number of minutes actually spent
learning, may be different for each student, depending on individual attentiveness and
willingness to work.
Classroom noise - Correct Answer Average volume of a teacher's voice is 65-70dB.
Typical background noise is often between 55-75dB. A teacher's voice is only around
equal volume - not surprisingly teachers have difficulty making themselves heard. 54%
of teachers stated that background noise in the classroom caused communication
problems most of the time. Background noise is detrimental for cognitive performance,
in particular for certain students. Individual differences matters too extroverted
participants had fewer concentration problems and less fatigue than introverts when
completing a mental arithmetic task under noisy conditions
Lighting - Correct Answer Young children may rely on facial expressions of teachers
and body language from teachers to give them cues about language so they should be
clearly visible in a well lit area. Daylight as the only light source in the classroom may