Module 2 Revision Flashcards
What are the four
elements of a
positive learning
environment?
✓ The Physical environment Relates to the way in which the learning areas are organised • Includes the indoor and outdoor environments ✓Organisation – layout & design ✓Storage/Materials ✓Lighting ✓Noise ✓Safety ✓Needs of the children
✓ The Social/emotional environment Relates to the feeling and tone of the environment set by the teacher and students: • Welcoming • Feelings of approval & acceptance • Nonverbal language e.g. gestures, facial expressions, tone and volume of voice • Verbal Language • Active Listening
✓ The Intellectual environment Relates to engagement with learning • A safe space in which to take educational risks • Tasks are challenging and important • Learning is valued • Performance expectations are explicit • Destructive competition is avoided • Effort is celebrated
✓ The Temporal environment
Relates the use of time:
• Children and teachers negotiate the use of time
– However children still need predictability
• Enable children to have choice within time frames.
• Match length of activity times to children’s
concentration and developmental span
• Transitions between activities.
How we should we
create a positive
learning
environment?
- Student-centred
- Well planned – practical and stimulating with
defined spaces - Flexible and responsive to learners
- Age appropriate for learning
What is the examples of the Reggio Emilia Approach and who developed it?
The city of Reggio Emilia is in northern Italy
• Emerged after 1945
• Loris Malaguzzi – philosophical founder
• Recognises the environment as the ‘3rd teacher’ ✓ Aesthetics ✓ Active learning ✓ Relationships ✓ Collaboration ✓ Light/transparency ✓ Bring the outside world in ✓ Flexibility ✓ ‘100 Languages’
Why and how do
children
misbehave in a
classroom?
Why?
✓ Basic needs are not being met (fatigue, lack of sleep & food)
✓ Attention seeking (pencil tapping, chair swinging)
✓ Exercise power (you can’t make me do this)
✓ Exact revenge (hitting another child)
✓ Disguise inadequacy (I can’t do this)
✓ Immature self control
✓ Home issues
✓ Medical issues
✓ Learning program (too hard/easy)
✓ Ineffective teacher
How should
teachers respond
to a challenging
behaviour?
- Effective teachers have a proactive and
predictive approach in the belief that all
children will misbehave some of the time
Use the following strategies:
- Predictive Thinking
- Kounin’s Preventative Approach
- Low-Key Responses
Teachers should also:
- Deal the problems
- Prepares startegies
What is
predictive
thinking?
Managing behaviour is continuous – it is not
something that only happens after an incident.
• Be alert.
• Be proactive e.g. observing children to
identify triggers for challenging
behaviours and avoiding them.
• Develop and use a Social Contract with your class.
• Do not underestimate the importance of class
culture and relationships:
What are the 7 principles of Kounin's Preventative Approach?
- Withiness
the ability to know what is
going on in all parts of the room at all times.
✓ Act before it spreads (nip in the bud).
✓ Frequently scan the room.
✓ ‘Eyes in the back of your head’.
✓ Convey that you know what is happening.
* Momentum Good lesson pace keeps students on track. which creates ‘Momentum’. ✓Begin and conclude lessons on a strong note. ✓Keep lessons moving ahead. ✓Make transitions efficient and not time consuming.
* Smoothness • Smoothness- smooth lessons help keep children involved and engaged. ✓Move smoothly from one activity to another. ✓Avoid repetition of instructions. ✓Avoid nagging, giving lectures, pointing out misbehaviours.
* Group Alerting Group Alerting - gaining student attention and clarifying expectations. ✓Oversee the whole group. ✓Oversee all the groups when working in small group structure. ✓Non-participants are alerted that they need to go back to the task at hand.
- Keeping students attentive
and actively involved.
✓Variety is the spice of life.
✓Vary presentations, demonstrations,
participation with children, circulate among the
children.
✓Design activities based at the children’s levels
and needs.
✓Design activities based on the children’s
interests. - Overlapping
Overlapping – good teachers are able to do
two or more things at once.
• Deal with one issue while involved with
another (e.g. group work).
• Overlapping connects with “withitness”. - Over-exposure
Effective teachers avoid over exposure to a
topic.
✓Avoid boredom.
✓Have very little resistance to tasks.
✓Students are part of the learning process.
✓Make activities enjoyable and challenging.
Name 5 of the 14 Low Key Responses by Bennett and Smilanich?
- Use a signal to stop/begin – results in the
whole class becoming focused on the
teacher - Be polite – model good manners
- Use proximity – move towards or stand
near a misbehaving student - Plan Student Movement (Transitions) -
strategies that promotes moving in an orderly and
efficient manner
How do I
respond on low
key responses?
The low key responses are skills a teacher employs
when children first start to misbehave. They almost
invisibly let the student know that what he/she is
doing is having a negative impact on learning.
✓Response is short/shorter than the interruption
✓Classroom atmosphere stays positive
✓Involves ‘non-verbal’ responses (act don’t talk)
✓Do not stop the flow of the lesson
✓Do not invite escalation – low emotional content
How to connect
with students,
parents and
colleagues?
Students:
- High expectations
- Respect differences
- Monitor feedback and progress
- Provide safe envrionment
Parents
- Know each family
- Parents are informed NOT alarmed
- Involve parents in classroom
- Welcoming Environment
Colleagues
- understand other perspectives
- Prepare to negotiate
- Share knowledge and expertise
Connecting Universal needs based on Brendtro, Brokenleg and Van Brockern?
How do I become an effective teacher and connect with the students in order to develop relationships? 1. Sense of belonging & trust 2. Experience mastery to acknowledge a talent/skill 3. Opportunities to be responsible & have independence 4. Feel worthwhile in their contributions & presence so that they see a purpose in showing generosity
How to win over
and develop a
sense of
belonging?
*Maintaining dual roles – how to maintain your
professionalism as a pre-service teacher?
- Learn the names of the students – smile & acknowledge
them (greet them). - Share yourself evenly with all students.
- Build trust to develop a sense of belonging.
