CLASS® behavioral markers (those bulleted lists of observable behaviors under each indicator on your dimension face pages) are both friends and, if ...
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If you're like me, you've started to notice that CLASS domains and dimensions are applicable to life even outside the classroom. You start wondering ...
Concept Development and Quality of Feedback—these two CLASS dimensions used to elicit a sense of fear in me, and I suspect they do for other early ...
We CLASS Specialists are always thinking about the complexity of the CLASS tool as we prepare for our trainings. As a trained CLASS observer myself, ...
What does quality teaching look like in an early childhood classroom? Twenty-five years ago, it was providing a safe place for children to play, with ...
The scenario: A teacher is sitting with several children having snack, and the teacher asks a student, “What are you going to be for Halloween?” Is ...
I was quite taken aback recently when an intern completing her first semester with a group of young toddlers told me, “My goal when I started the ...
First of all, “rote” learning is not the enemy; there is a time and place for everything. It’s necessary to memorize addresses, PINs, birthdays, the ...
So, you’re a Certified CLASS Observer. Now, what? You recertify once a year to make sure you are staying true to the tool—that’s essential. But what ...
When two colleagues whom I greatly respect for the depth and breadth of their CLASS knowledge contacted me within 24 hours of each other to ask about ...