Checkpoint 1 Flashcards
(11 cards)
Six features of the classroom setting that contribute to its complexity
- Multidimensionality
- Simultaneity
- Immediacy
- Unpredictability
- Lack of privacy
- History
3 themes: why kids behave in some classes and misbehave in others
- Importance of relating to students w/ caring and respect
- Need for teachers to set limits and enforce them
- Importance of teaching in a way that is motivating and interesting.
Wubbels: student perceptions of good teachers
- Dominance: purpose and guidance
- Cooperation: concern for students, community sense
Attending and acknowledging vs. active listening
Active listening requires reflecting back what you think you heard in order to convey understanding, attending and acknowledging involve verbal and nonverbal behaviors that convey interest
Which students benefit most from personal caring? Academic caring?
Personal caring is most important for low SES/achieving students
Tenets of SWPBIS
(Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports)
- Clearly defined expectations
- Actively teaching expectations
- Tangible reinforcement system
- Established, consistent consequences
- Additional support for students who need it
- Data collection
Teaching behaviors proposed by Slavin for all students, but especially those who are low-achieving (SPF for students and teachers everywhere)
- Supportive setting
- Parameters in place
- Feedback that is meaningful
- Success within reach
- Time used efficiently
- Engagement levels are high
Reasons for parent reluctance to cooperate with teachers
- Cultural differences
- Work
- Bad personal experiences at school
- Guilt
- Intimidation
- Feel it isn’t their role
Reasons for teacher reluctance to cooperate with parents
- Lack of time/energy
- perceptions of families
- Concern that parents don’t understand their role
Epstein and Griffith on communication and collaboration w/ parents
- Teacher attitudes and practices determine whether families become involved
- Not education level, marital status, or workplace of parents
Communicating w/ concerned parents (MAPS)
- Mainly listen
- Acknowledge they have a legitimate concern
- Plan together for
- Student success
