Zygouris-Coe Ch.5
This tier of words is referred to by the CCSS as "general academic words" and are found across a variety of domains.
What are Tier Two Words?
This model describes an instructional cycle where teachers take on most of the work at first and then the work is released to students over time.
This approach to discipline seeks to keep students engaged in school life by having them accept responsibility for any harm they caused and allows them to try to make things right, rather than removing or excluding them.
What is Restorative Discipline?
In order to define the term "parabola", giving a mathematical definition will likely be more confusing for a student than doing this instead to help students understand what it is.
What is showing a picture, graph, drawing, etc. of a parabola?
This method of vocabulary instruction is popular, but generally frowned upon in the book due to the lack of depth required to complete the activity and lack of practice in using the vocabulary.
What is copying definitions?
This is a metacognitive strategy that involves the ongoing evaluation of a reader’s understanding of the text. This strategy teaches students to be aware of what they do understand, identify what they do not understand, and use appropriate “fix-up” strategies.
What is Comprehension Monitoring?
This type of language expresses genuine feelings and/or emotions related to specific behaviors or the actions of other people. It is primarily used to foster a positive learning environment.
What is Affective Language?
When defining these kinds of terms in math it is important to recognize that they have a meaning in and out of math like how students may know what "volume" means but may not know what finding the "volume of a cube" means. This means teachers must explicitly define these terms in their content area before using them.
What are Subtechnical terms? (Tier Two words)
This way to define vocabulary words is recommended by the book especially for Tier Two and Tier Three words as an alternative to definitions you might find in a dictionary.
What are "student-friendly explanations"?
This way of thinking looks different within each discipline because of the different kinds of thought that are more important to excel within each discipline.
What is Thinking like an Expert?
This restorative process focuses on promoting strong relationships and a sense of community between students. Students sit in chairs arranged so that everyone can see each other. They often utilize a talking piece to ensure only one person speaks at a time.
What is a Circle Process?
These abstract math concepts can be difficult to learn and be used to convey different meanings. It is suggested that these are taught through explicit instruction, graphic organizers, and associating words with images.
What are math symbols?
This vocabulary strategy is more commonly used in Math and Science as a way to help students determine whether vocabulary words exhibit certain features or not. This helps students think about how words in a category are similar and/or different.
What is Semantic Feature Analysis?
This is an important component of the disciplinary literacy framework where students need to be attentive, listen carefully, paraphrase and summarize as needed, ask clarifying questions, add to everyone’s understanding of the topic, make connections and partial concessions (yes... but .. .), provide reasons when they agree or disagree with others, and expand everyone’s thinking as needed.
What is Accountable Talk?
They are use when a relationship has been broken or seriously harmed to allow students the opportunity to meet face-to-face to discuss how each person feels about the situation and hopefully prevent a similar event in the future.
What is a (Restorative) Conference?
This strategy helps students understand the meaning behind terms used in math word problems by having students create a table that links the word to the operation, an example problem, and an example formula.
This vocabulary strategy can help students learn the meaning of words by breaking the words down into smaller pieces. Then students examine the meaning of each of the pieces before putting them back together to create the meaning of the whole word.
What is Morphemic Analysis?
The ways we promote this type of learning is through creating a positive learning community and moving beyond surface-level coverage to focus on transferrable learning which involves being able to take what is learned in one situation and apply it to another new one.
What are ways to promote Deep Learning?
This key element to the implementation of restorative discipline is emphasized due to its ability to provide a coherent experience for students. Specifically, it is emphasized that restorative discipline should be promoted at this level rather than in individual classrooms.
What is a building-level (school-wide) approach?
This math word problem strategy can be used to help give students a process that allows them to determine whether pieces of information presented in the text are relevant to determining the solution to the problem or not.
What is the Determining Essential and Non-Essential Information strategy?