Motivation to engage in a behavior to recieve some incentive.
What is Extrinsic motivation?
100
Teacher's beliefs in their ability to help students learn, regardless of the conditions of the school or students' home lives.
What is Personal Teaching efficacy?
100
Name 3 ways teachers increase student interest.
What is high levels of students involvement, attention grabbing and relating topics to students lives?
100
Motivation to be involved in an activity for its own sake.
What is Intrinsic motivation?
100
The match between learning objectives, learning activities, and assessments.
What is Instructional alignment?
200
The process teachers use to gather information and make decisions about students' learning progress.
What is Assessment?
200
The practice of calling on all students-both volunteers and nonvolunteers-as equally as possible.
What is Equitable distribution?
200
Teacher's instruction, learning objectives match up with assessments.
What is Instrucational Alignment?
200
The ability that all teachers, including those in their first year of teaching, should have in order to help students learn.
What is Essential Teaching skills?
200
The period of silence after a question is asked and after a student is called on to answer.
What is Wait-time?
300
Statements that specify what students should know or be able to do with respect to a topic or course of study.
What is Lenarning Objectives?
300
An approach to planning in which the teacher begins with an objective, designs assessments to match the objective, and then creates learning activities to reach the objective.
What is Backward Design?
300
These are 5 ways teachers plan for instruction.
What is selcting topics, specify learning objectives, prepare and organize learning activities, plan for assessment, ensure instructional alignment?
300
Concrete objects, pictures, models, materials displayed on the overhead, and even information written on the board that attract and maintain attention during learning activities.
What is Focus
300
A class room phenomenon in which student efforts rise or fall to match teacher expectations.
What is Self-Fulfilling prophecy?
400
A set of instructional strategies used to help learners meet specific learning and social interaction objectives in structured groups.
What is Cooperative learning?
400
Topics that connect facts, concepts and principles and make the relationships among them explicit.
What is Organized bodies of knowledge?
400
Effective teachers use these 4 techniques when questioning.
What is frequency, equitable distribution, wait-time, and prompting?
400
Information about current understanding that can be used to promote new learning.
What is Feedback?
400
Providing additional questions and cues when students fail to answer correctly.
What is Prompting?
500
An instructional strategy designed to teach concepts and other abstractions by presenting students with data and assisting them in finding patterns through teacher questioning.
What is Guided Discovery?
500
Prescriptive approaches to teaching designed to help students acquire a deep understanding of specific forms of knowledge.
What is Instructional strategies?
500
Direct instrution, lecture-discussion, guided discovery and cooperative learning are all examples of...
What is Instructional Strategies?
500
Instructional assistance that teachers use to assist learners in a task to produce high rates of success.
What is Scaffolding
500
An instructional strategy designed to teach essential knowledge and skills through teacher explanation and modeling followed by student practice and feedback.