standard 5: the learning environment

The Learning Environment Page

Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession: Standard 5

Teachers create learning environments that promote high levels of learning and achievement for all students.

Standard 5: Element 5.1

Teachers treat all students fairly and establish an environment that is respectful, supportive and caring.

What does that look like?

Standard 5: Element 5.1Proficient Level

•Teachers demonstrate caring and respect in their interactions with all students.•Teachers develop and teach expectations for respectful interactions among students.

Standard 5: Element 5.1Proficient Level

•Teachers use strategies to promote positive relationships, cooperation and collaboration among students.

Standard 5: Element 5.1Accomplished Level

•Teachers create classrooms in which students demonstrate caring and respect for one another.•Teachers seek out and are receptive to the thoughts and opinions of all students.

Standard 5: Element 5.1Distinguished Level

•Teachers model expectations and behaviors that create a positive school and district climate of openness, respect and caring.

Teachers create an environment that is physcially and emotionally safe.

What does that look like?

Standard 5: Element 5.2

Standard 5: Element 5.2Proficient Level

•Teachers clarify standards of conduct for all students.•Teachers use a variety of effective classroom management techniques.

Standard 5: Element 5.2Proficient Level

•Teachers provide a safe learning environment that accommodates all students.

Standard 5: Element 5.2Accomplished Level

•Teachers consistently, effectively and respectfully anticipate and respond to the behavior of students.

Standard 5: Element 5.2Accomplished Level

•Teachers make decisions and adjustments that support positive behavior, enhance social behavior and increase student motivation and engagement in productive work.

Standard 5: Element 5.2Distinguished Level

•Teachers create classrooms in which students take active roles in maintaining an enriching environment that is conducive to learning.

Standard 5: Element 5.3

Teachers motivate students to work productively and assume responsibility for their own learning.

What does that look like?

Standard 5: Element 5.3Proficient Level

•Teachers foster student enthusiasm for and curiosity about the discipline.

Standard 5: Element 5.3Proficient Level

•Teachers establish methods for recognition of students and relate recognition to specific student achievement, either individually or in groups (Cotton, 1999)

Standard 5: Element 5.3Accomplished Level

•Teachers encourage self-directed learnign by teaching students to outline tasks and timelines (Cotton, 1999).

Standard 5: Element 5.3Accomplished Level

•Teachers vary their roles in the instructional process (instructor, facilitator and coach) based on the content, focus of learning and student needs.

Standard 5: Element 5.3Distinguished Level

•Teachers work with other educators to support the design of independent learning experiences for students, such as service-learning activities and cooperative learning groups.

Standard 5: Element 5.4

Teachers create learning situations in which students work independently, collaboratively and/or as a whole class.

What does that look like?

Standard 5: Element 5.4Proficient Level

•Teachers use flexible learning situations, such as independent, small group and whole class.•Teachers develop guidelines for and model cooperative learning.

Standard 5: Element 5.4Proficient Level

•Teachers offer students opportunities for independent practice with and reflection on new concepts and skills.

Standard 5: Element 5.4Accomplished Level

•Teachers employ cooperative learning activites.•Teachers effectively combine independent, collaborative and whole-class learning situations to maximize student understanding and learning.

Standard 5: Element 5.4Distinguished Level

•Teachers create environments where students initiate purposeful learning groups and take responsibility for the group’s productivity.

Standard 5: Element 5.4Distinguished Level

•Teachers model and assist other teachers in implementing a variety of learning situations in their classrooms.

Standard 5: Element 5.5

Teachers maintain an environment that is conducive to learning for all students.

What does that look like?

Standard 5: Element 5.5Proficient Level

•Teachers begin class purposefully, with assignments, activities, materials and supplies ready for students when they arrive (Cotton, 1999).

Standard 5: Element 5.5Proficient Level

•Teachers transition between learning activities and use instructional time effectively.•Teachers convert physical space to facilitate instruction.

Standard 5: Element 5.5Accomplished Level

•Teachers conduct periodic reviews of classroom routines and revise them as needed (Cotton, 1999).

Standard 5: Element 5.5Distinguished Level

•Teachers influence the establishment of district-wide policies to maximize the amount of class time spent learning (such as daily scheduling, district calendar, textbooks and technology enhancements).

Have you created a learning environment that promotes learning and high achievement?

Essential Question

Consider the following:(use never, rarely, sometimes, frequently or always to answer)

•I treat all students fairly and I have established a classroom environment that is respectful, supportive and caring.•I have created a classroom environment that is physically and emotionally safe.

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•I motivate my students to work productively and take responsibility for their own learning.

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•I create learning situations in which students work independently, collaboratively and/or as a whole class.

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•I maintain an environment that is conducive to learning for all students.

•Classroom management paper•Pictures of classroom/classroom diagram with explanation about the classroom environment

Possible Artifacts to include in your

Professional Portfolio:

For EACH Artifact

• Remember the four components necessary for each artifact:– Date– Context– Reflection– Standard

See the video “The Four Components of a reflection” for more information on this requirement.

Bibliography

This information is copied/adapted from: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=1309&ContentID=8561&Content=86686 Click on “Standards for OhioEducators” to review the entire100-page document.