A TECHNIQUE' has been developed for assessing the socialemotional climate in classrooms through a categorization of the teacher's statements. The instrument called the Social-Emotional Climate Index comprises criteria whereby teacherstatements can be distributed among seven categories. The criteria for each category are as follows:Category I. Learner-supportive statements or questions. These are teacher-statements or questions that express agreement with ideas, actions or opinions of the learner, or that commend or reassure the learner. Agreement is frequently expressed by a monosyllabic response such as &dquo;Yes,&dquo; &dquo;Right,&dquo; &dquo;Uhuh,&dquo; and the like. Commendation or reassurance may be stated in terms of a) class-accepted criteria or goals, or b) the private goals and subjective criteria of the teacher. The dominant intent of these statements or questions is to praise, encourage or bolster the learner. Category 2. Acceptant or clarifying statements of questions. These are teacher-statements or questions which a) accept, i.e., evidence considerable understanding by the teacher of, or b) clarify, i.e., restate clearly and succinctly in the teacher's words, the ideational or the feeling content of the learner's statements. The dominant intent of these teacher-responses is to help the learner gain insight into his problem, i.e., define his &dquo;real&dquo; problem and its solution in more operational terms.
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