Developmental Teaching
Dimension 890 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Developmental Teaching measures the extent to which an expression reflects active, hands-on guidance intended to build another person's skills, understanding, and learning. It encompasses instructional engagement ranging from minimal or incidental mention of guidance to explicit demonstration, explanation, and structured teaching activities.
evidence final name · Teacher Teaches
Minimal Developmental Teaching
Expressions activating this band contain little to no clear instructional or skill-building guidance, and may instead focus on unrelated feelings, general concerns, or broad life statements. When guidance is present, it is only incidental and not organized around teaching or development.
Low Developmental Teaching
Expressions activating this band reflect limited, indirect, or background forms of guidance, such as monitoring, holding things in mind, or shaping behavior through familiarity and caution. Teaching is implied more as oversight or containment than as active skill-building.
Moderate Developmental Teaching
Expressions activating this band reflect practical guidance around rules, tasks, expectations, or opportunities for growth. Teaching appears as helping someone manage behavior, complete responsibilities, or develop basic competence.
High Developmental Teaching
Expressions activating this band reflect direct, engaged teaching through naming, showing, describing, and providing materials or activities suited to learning. The guidance is interactive and oriented toward building understanding through supported practice.
Intensive Developmental Teaching
Expressions activating this band reflect explicit, structured instruction through demonstration, explanation, repetition, and guided play designed to teach concrete skills and concepts. Learning support is active, intentional, and closely scaffolded.
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Minimal Teacher Teaches: Content characterized by there, mass, effect, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect teacher teaches at this level.
Emerging Teacher Teaches: Content characterized by skin, might, remember, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect teacher teaches at this level.
Elevated Teacher Teaches: Content characterized by moves, claims, coverage, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect teacher teaches at this level.
Severe Teacher Teaches: Content characterized by teaches, teaching, instructed, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect teacher teaches at this level.