1) Probing questions are teacher generated inquiries aimed at assisting students to think more deeply about the topic.
2) The Action Zone in class is the area of the front row extending directly up the middle aisle for which proximity of students to teacher results in high levels of student-teacher interaction.
3) Wait Time refers to the amount of time a teacher will wait to allow students to respond to a classroom procedure; e.g. a question.
4) A Didactic view holds that teaching is primarily directed toward knowledge transmission and explanation and demonstration of knowledge operation.
5) A Discovery view holds that teaching is primarily directed at providing students with opportunities to learn inductively from direct operations.
6) A Self-fulfilling Prophecy is a teacher expectancy effect wherein a teacher's erroneous expectation of how a student will respond leads to teacher behaviors that actually elicit the expected response.
7) The Sustaining Expectation Effect is aa teacher expectation effect wherein teachers, believing students will behave the same as in the past, fail to work toward changing past patterns and so developing students' potential.
8) Pygmalion in the Classroom is a book authored by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) that provides their research findings of self-fulfilling prophecy phenomena.
9) The term Proactive refers to teachers likely to old positive expectations of students because they engage in realistic goal setting based on personal experience in classroom and individual goal setting.
10) Overactive teachers are those who, based on prior records and first impressions, develop fixed, unyielding stereotyped perceptions of their students.
11) Imitation is a form of learning in which students watch the behavior of a model and then copy the behavior.
12) Incidental Learning occurs when students make inferences about teacher internalities (attitudes, beliefs, personality characte...