CLASS Environment™
Improve your learning environment and focus on the learning setting elements that matter.
Create an environment that fuels quality interactions.
Research has proven that meaningful interactions are key to promoting children’s learning and development. For years, CLASS® has been the leading system for measuring and improving those key interactions. And now, with CLASS Environment™, you can measure and improve the specific elements of an environment that matter most for supporting those interactions.
Build a shared definition of quality learning environments.
CLASS Environment™ offers a cost-effective, streamlined, and comprehensive program to measure and improve the features of Infant-Toddler and Pre-K–K learning environments that matter most for supporting effective interactions between educators and children.
CLASS Environment Observer Training is a 5-hour self-paced online training for observers to:
- Discover CLASS Environment™ and how the learning setting supports effective interactions
- Understand how to use CLASS Environment™ as an observation tool and assign scores for each item accurately
- Prepare to use the CLASS Environment™ as an observation tool and assign scores for each item accurately
- Earn 0.5 CEUs upon completion
Create Educator Confidence
CLASS Environment Educator Overview is a 3-hour self-paced online training for educators to:
- Explore what CLASS Environment™ measures and how the environment can support effective interactions
- Discover how to connect environmental supports to meaningful interactions across daily practices
- Build knowledge for how to enhance their own environment that fosters quality interactions
- Earn 0.3 CEUs upon completion
Take a holistic approach to supporting child outcomes.
Anchored in the research-based domains of the CLASS® tool, CLASS Environment™ is built to:
- Measure the type, not quantity, of environmental elements that support meaningful interactions
- Support Infant-Toddler, and Pre-K-K educators in creating effective learning environments
- Strengthen quality of children’s educational experiences
Measure quality with one system.
Used alongside the CLASS® tool, CLASS Environment™ is designed to:
- Observe key elements of the environment that impact what really matters, teacher-child interactions
- Minimize total observation time and decrease disruptions by pairing interaction and environment observations together
- Collect data points that paint a comprehensive picture of quality
