Environment B: High Expectations: Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool (Eleot)

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Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool® (eleot®)

Environment B: High Expectations

Why It Matters: Teachers often calibrate their expectations differently based how they perceive students, and
students detect and respond to those expectations accordingly, whether they are high or low (Rosenthal & Jacobs, 1968).
Successful teachers, however, work to foster high expectations for all their students (Marzano, 2010). They do this because
it is “through relationships that convey high expectations [that] students learn to believe in themselves and in their futures,
developing the critical resilience of self-esteem, self-efficacy, autonomy, and optimism” (Benard, 1995, p.3).

What to Understand What Learners Do What Observers Do


• This environment is about • Exhibit signs of wrestling with • Look for rubrics and other
opportunity and response. content and learning objectives. examples of what high-quality
student work looks like.
• Teachers are responsible for • Extend learning by applying it
presenting students with rigorous to both related and seemingly • Listen for teachers asking complex
work and content and for holding disparate situations and contexts. and open-ended questions and for
students to high standards. students asking clarifying questions
• Overcome challenges presented by
and connecting their learning to
• Students are expected to rise to the lesson to achieve success and
diverse situations.
meet the challenges presented by mastery of material.
teachers and persevere through • Check for whether students are
• Generate new content/materials.
difficult work. rapidly completing each step of the
• Work collaboratively to solve learning assignment or working
• In many cases, students need
problems and complete tasks. through tasks with deliberation
opportunities to work with others
and effort.
to complete rigorous work. • Share learning objectives with
others. • Ask students: What is the
most challenging aspect of this
assignment? How does this
relate to other material you have
learned? What does the finished
product look like, and what makes
it good or bad?

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