The classroom environment facilitated by the teacher encouraged students to generate ideas, questions, conjectures, and/or propositions that reflected engagement or exploration with important mathematics and science concepts.
Interactions reflected collegial working relationships among students. (e.g., students worked together productively and talked with each other about the lesson).
The majority of students were on task throughout the class.
The teacher’s classroom management strategies enhanced the classroom environment.
The classroom is organized appropriately such that students can work in groups easily and get to lab materials as needed, and the teacher can move to each student or student group.
The classroom environment established by the teacher reflected attention to issues of access, equity, and diversity for students (e.g., cooperative learning, language-appropriate strategies and materials, attentiveness to student needs).