Teacher-Student Interactions: The Key to Quality Classrooms

Every day, teachers make countless real-time decisions and encourage dozens of interactions with students. They share commonalities, but educators nationwide often speak differently about these decisions and interactions. A class rating grading system (CLASS) developed by the University of Virginia Education and Learning Center helps educators to use common languages ​​for discussion and viewing classrooms from a common point of view. Learning

The class describes ten educational dimensions related to student achievement and social development. Each of the 10 dimensions is divided into one of three categories: emotional support, classroom organization, and leadership support.

Emotional support is a way for teachers to find ways to help children develop warm and supportive relationships, experience the joy and excitement of learning, feel comfortable in the classroom, and experience appropriate autonomy or independence I will point it. This includes:

Positive atmosphere - Joy and emotional connection between teacher and student, and essence of exchange with peers.

Negative climate - The degree of anger, hostility, or attack expressed by a classroom teacher or student.

Focus on the student's perspective - the level of interaction between the teacher and students and the classroom activities highlight the students' interests, motivations and perspectives

A classroom organization is a teacher who helps children to acquire skills to regulate their behavior, gain maximum learning from the day of each school, and maintain interest in learning activities . This includes:

Productivity - the performance of the course in everyday life, the level of understanding of the students' daily work, and the extent to which teachers provide activities and guidance to maximize learning activities.

Form of education and learning - how teachers can engage students and promote activities to maximize learning opportunities

Educational support is a way for teachers to effectively support students' cognitive development and language development. This includes:

Concept development - Do you use teaching arguments and activities to improve students' advanced thought skills and cognitive skills rather than how the teachers concentrate on their studies?

Quality of feedback - how teachers can increase participation and learning through feedback

Language modeling - Teacher motivation to promote and promote student language usage

Students are most influenced by the quality of teachers. They not only interact with teachers every day in the classroom, but the quality of that exchange is very important to the future of the students. In fact, Economists at Stanford University, Eric Hanushek, point out that the difference between an excellent teacher and a poor teacher can achieve student achievement in the first grade. However, students rarely asks to think that they can be good teachers. The most common response is that excellent teachers build relationships with students. The research literature agrees that teachers need to be able to build relationships of trust with students in order to create a safe, prospective and productive learning environment. For example, a Boston student says to us, a good teacher says "I want to hear the student's story when there is a problem."

It covers the quality of interaction between teacher and student, and teacher's expectations. Necessity to make a classroom to recognize student self-worth while always asking more. It also includes the student 's success due to effort, not the ability or ability to concentrate on failure or gravel. Effective use of teacher's lesson time, adjustment of classroom resources and spaces, and the ability to manage student behavior using consistent execution rules are all related to maximizing learning ability. These environmental factors are not direct raw materials, but are necessary for good learning.