Helps teammates to make meaningful choices in their learning environment, defining learning goals and monitoring their progress in achieving them.
Creates a work-oriented but relaxed and pleasant atmosphere in the classroom with relatively little wasted time, confusion or disruption.
Takes care to create a pleasant learning atmosphere where teammates understand that the goal is to learn from their mistakes and “try again”.
Promotes Positive Interactions
Shows enthusiasm for student concerns and subject matter and helps teammates to fulfill their team roles in a friendly and professional manner.
Is fair and impartial in dealing with requests and provides positive individual attention and appropriate and timely feedback to teammates that helps them to succeed.
Promotes positive student-student interaction that helps to quickly and respectfully restore positive behavior so students retain their dignity and continue learning
Promotes positive communication and feedback, and an atmosphere for respect that helps teammates feel that they are known, their voices are heard and count, they are respected and able to respect others, feel valued as individuals, and understand the importance of their contributions to the group
Promotes Focus
Ensures that when the lesson begins, the students quieten down, focus on the lesson and get plenty of practice and feedback tailored to their specific needs
Demonstrates a passion for learning that inspires other students to want to learn and keeps them deeply involved in their work, and yet interested enough that they do not get frustrated and give up.
Helps the appropriate Concept Presenter to reteach any skills from prior classes that the students appear to be struggling with