Journal on Policy & Complex Systems Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2017 | Page 36

Complexity Context to Classroom Interactions and Climate
1 . Teacher-to-one student and student-tostudent / s . 2 . Students as a group to teacher . 3 . Teacher-to-students as a group ( Johnson , 2015 ).
The thickest network edges were teacher-to whole-class in relation to CLASS observation behavioral markers of instructional , checking-in , using names , and moving to students that improve achievement . The networks showed the teacher at the top of the hierarchy directing and controlling a majority of network interactions . The exception of School # 2 Classroom # 5 , Observation Session # 2 ( see Figure 2 ) had the thickest edges not only from teacher-to-students with regard to the behavioral markers of checking-in , moving to student , and using names but also from student-to-student instructional interactions . Note Classroom # 5 had the most interactions of 386 and network the graph captures the chaos of more than 73
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