PreK CLASS: Instructional Support Domain

Note Taking Guide

Dimension: Concept Development
Ice Won’t melt, Sorting Shapes, engaging Instruction-Voting, Wind Blows

INDICATORS
Analysis and Reasoning
Behavioral Example from Video
Marker
Why and/or Asks, “How do we know this is the wind?
How Questions How do we know the wind is there?”
Problem Asked the child to figure out how they could
Solving keep the ice from melting, eliciting her
opinion.
Prediction/ While looking at the ice, the teacher asked
Experimentation the child “This ice will be here tomorrow?
Do you think it will be here tomorrow?”
Classification/ Confirmed that it was a square, then
comparison counted the sides of the square with the
child, tracing the edges.
Evaluation When the child counted to six, the teacher
asked the child to try that again, counting of
the sides, saying, “Let’s follow my finger.”
INDICATORS
Creating
Behavioral Example from Video
Marker
Brainstorming The discussion around who gets a vote,
allowing the children to voice their
thoughts on who gets to vote and why.
Planning She talked the child through her idea of
putting the ice in a bag, and seeing if the
child’s idea was correct that the ice
wouldn’t melt if it was in bag.
Producing Talked the children through the voting
process, allowing them to begin the vote
the way they agreed to at the end.

Integration Connections to Real World

Behavioral Example from Video Behavioral Example from Video

Marker Marker
Connects Connecting the sides of the square with the Real-world Remarked that it wasn’t cold enough
concepts use of tracing the sides and counting the applications outside that the ice wouldn’t melt. Saying,

Developed for Brandman University based on Teachstone (2010). PreK CLASS dimensions guide. Charlottesville, VA: Author.
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sides, so that the child is familiar with not “It has to be really cold outside to stay
only seeing it on sight but knowing why it is like that, into a block of ice.”
a square.
Integrates with Asked the children, “How many votes do we Related to Talks to the children about wind, “it
previous get? Four?” and allowed the children to students’ lives moves your hair, it moves the trees.”
knowledge respond with their knowledge that it was Connecting the concept of wind with the
one vote. impact on their bodies and environment

Developed for Brandman University based on Teachstone (2010). PreK CLASS dimensions guide. Charlottesville, VA: Author.