Creating High Performance Learning Environments
Roller coaster physics (STEM) (Teaching Channel, 2017) From watching this video we can see a teacher who has mastered the idea of good quality engagement. She has high academic and behavior expectations and has established norms and procedures that help lead to high student performance. In her class everyone (teacher included) is expected to participate and the teacher asserts that her students get smarter from communicating and working with each other. The video showed good quality of interactions and good affective tone (Marzano, 2007). The teacher gave prompt feedback, lots of equal interactions and was in close proximity to students (ie. sits on ground with them). She also had a good affective tone too (i,.e many warm smiles). I could see immediately that the teacher was using the strategy “I do” (direct instruction), “we do” (chimer activity), “you do together” (group sketch, computer game and design challenge), “you do alone” (individual sketch with labels). By involving al...