CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING & LEARNING OBSERVATION CHECKLIST  
_____1. Encourages and accepts student autonomy and initiative.
_____2. Uses raw data and primary sources.
_____3. Uses manipulative, interactive and physical materials.
_____4. Uses cognitive terminology such as classify, analyze, predict, create, when framing tasks.
_____5. Allows student responses to drive lessons, shift instructional strategies, and alter content.
_____6. Responds to student contributions.
_____7. Inquires about students' understandings or concepts before sharing their own understandings of those concepts.
_____8. Encourages students to engage in dialogue, both with the teacher and with one another.
_____9. Encourages student inquiry by asking thoughtful, open-ended questions and encouraging students to ask questions of each other.
_____10. Helps students define, clarify, describe, and list examples.
_____11. Seeks elaboration of students' initial responses.
_____12. A voids closed questions and narrow factual questions.
_____13. Engages students in experiences that might engender contradictions to their initial hypotheses and then encourages discussion. .
_____14. Allows wait time after posing questions.
_____15. Provides time for students to construct and create metaphors.
_____16. Nurtures students' natural curiosity.
_____17. Provides for student self and peer evaluation of knowledge.
_____18. Questioning strategies require problem solving, analysis and reason.
_____19. Moves throughout room interacting with students.
_____20. Goals for next visit: