The Teaching & Learning Initiative provides guidance on all elements of classroom instruction.
PORTAAL, a new evidence-based classroom observation tool, identifies 21 elements of classroom best practices for active learning that have been correlated with positive student outcomes in the education literature.
Presence includes mindful awareness of and engagement with all the elements of classroom life [ 13], reflecting in action [ 104] to respond adaptively and flexibly to student needs as they emerge through interactions [ 102, 105, 106].
2) As science educators focus more intently on how student success is impacted by affective elements of classrooms (Trujillo and Tanner, 2014), including issues of student identity and stereotype threat, understanding the present-day perceptions of scientists among students becomes a crucial starting place for building awareness and crafting interventions.
Virtual classrooms provided learners with something which had elements of both classroom and e-learning: staff are able to learn at their PCs but are able to communicate with other delegates and ask a trainer for help.
First, we describe common elements of their classroom environments.
Drawing on qualitative data, the report discusses common elements of their classroom environments and reveal similarities in how they organize instructional leadership and improvement activities.
The present study expands the array of learning instruments that have been widely used over the past several decades by developing a walkthrough observation instrument that examines the five elements of flourishing classroom learning environments.
The present study expands the array of learning environment instruments by developing a walkthrough observation instrument that examines the five elements of flourishing classroom learning environments: (a) positive emotion, (b) engagement, (c) meaning, (d) positive relationships, and (e) accomplishment.
Therefore, we regard the use of audio or video materials (e.g., instructional videos, YouTube, screencast, Khan Academy, podcast) for out-of-class learning and regular (instead of optional) face-to-face class meetings as the two necessary elements of flipped classroom approach.
This particular intervention is not controversial and has a positive effect on the affective elements of the classroom.
