Responsive Classroom

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Evidence · 3 claims (2 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 associational), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description

Responsive Classroom is a school-based social and emotional learning programme that organizes classroom practice around components including Morning Meeting, Rule Creation, Interactive Modeling, and Academic Choice.

Components

• Responsive Classroom core component indices: Morning Meeting, Rule Creation, Interactive Modeling, and Academic Choice: The Responsive Classroom approach is a school-based social and emotional learning program whose implementation was indexed through four core components. The article states that "Indices of teachers' implementation of Morning Meeting, Rule Creation, Interactive Modeling, and Academic Choice were derived from a combination of teacher-reported surveys and classroom observations." These component indices served as predictors of teacher–student classroom interaction quality among 143 treatment teachers in third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms within a randomized controlled trial. (Abry et al. (2017))

Claims

• Teachers' use of Morning Meeting and Academic Choice relates to higher levels of emotionally supportive interactions in grade 3–5 classrooms [+M]
• Teachers' use of Academic Choice relates to higher levels of instructional interactions in grade 3–5 classrooms [+M]
• Baseline interaction quality moderates component-outcome relations, with strongest relations for teachers with the lowest baseline quality [~M]

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Key Sources

• Abry, T., Rimm-Kaufman, S.E. & Curby, T.W. (2017). Are All Program Elements Created Equal? Relations Between Specific Social and Emotional Learning Components and Teacher–Student Classroom Interaction Quality. Prevention Science, 18, 193–203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-016-0743-3

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title	Responsive Classroom
description	Responsive Classroom is a school-based social and emotional learning programme that organizes classroom practice around components including Morning Meeting, Rule Creation, Interactive Modeling, and Academic Choice.
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