The Class as a Living Environment

Flashcards about classroom environments, teaching approaches, and learner characteristics, based on lecture notes.

What are two important elements of a classroom environment?

A positive learning and living environment and a stimulating and workable living, working, and learning space.

According to Kelchtermans, what role does the teacher play?

The teacher develops a professional identity.

What constitutes a teacher's subjective educational theory?

Knowledge and opinions about education, formed lifelong, and based on knowledge and experiences; also known as the 'technical know-how' of the teacher.

What are some of the characteristics of a class group?

A group of young people, not always together by choice, participating in activities they might not choose themselves, and in full development (from puberty to adolescence).

According to Doyle (1986), what are the six characteristics that summarize the living situation in a classroom?

Multidimensionality, simultaneity, immediacy, unpredictability, publicity, and history.

Who is primarily responsible for the learning climate in the classroom?

The teacher.

What actions can a teacher take to promote a positive classroom environment?

Accepting attitude, providing guidance and space, serving as a model, and self-knowledge in the profession.

What constitutes the 'initial situation' (beginsituatie) in a learning environment?

The entirety of characteristics referring to the student, the class group, the teacher, the teaching team, the school, the home environment, and the broader environment.

What are the three components of the initial situation?

Student characteristics, teaching characteristics, and environmental characteristics.

What are some key aspects of 'student characteristics' within the initial situation?

Prior knowledge, cognitive skills, affective skills, and metacognitive skills.

List some cognitive strategies students use.

Analyzing, structuring, selecting, memorizing, comparing, concretizing, critically processing, and applying.

Name some affective skills students utilize.

Self-image, self-confidence, attributions, and motivation.

What metacognitive skills are important for students to develop?

Task orientation, goal setting, planning, systematic working, monitoring during execution, evaluating, and reflecting.

What are the 'teaching characteristics' that influence the initial situation?

Personality characteristics; characteristics of the education (e.g., thematic/project-based); characteristics of the class group (e.g., grouping, composition, climate).

What are 'environmental characteristics' in the context of a learning environment?

All external factors influencing the initial situation, such as socioeconomic status (SES), local events, current affairs, and the time of day for the lesson.

What are the three pillars of language-developing teaching?

Context, interaction, and language support.