Starting and Ending Strong
This is a short, pencil-to-paper assignment waiting for students at their desks as soon as they walk into the room.
What is a Do Now?
This is the name for calling on a student to answer a question even if they haven’t raised their hand.
What is Cold Call?
A teacher who is both incredibly caring and uncompromisingly firm about rules is using this balanced approach
What is Warm/Strict?
This term describes the imaginary line running five feet in front of the board that a teacher must cross to move among students
What is Breaking the Plane?
This part of the human cognitive structure is where conscious thinking occurs but is limited to holding only one or two ideas at a time
What is Working Memory?
Teachers use this short set of questions at the very end of class to get a quick snapshot of what students learned that day.
What is an Exit Ticket?
Instead of calling on one student, the teacher has the entire class shout out the answer at the same time in unison.
What is Call and Response?
This is the term for a classroom where students feel safe enough to admit they are confused so the teacher can help them fix the mistake.
What is a Culture of Error?
This is the name for the specific corner of the room where a teacher stands to see the entire class in an 80-degree field of vision
What is Pastore’s Perch?
This curve demonstrates how quickly students begin to lose new information as soon as a lesson ends
What is the Forgetting Curve?
This technique involves moving around the entire classroom while students are working to check their progress and provide feedback
What is Circulate?
In this common activity, students are given a short amount of time to discuss a question with the person sitting next to them.
What is a Turn and Talk?
Instead of just saying "Great job," a teacher using this technique describes the specific action (like using a hard vocabulary word) that led to the success.
What is Precise Praise?
A teacher who scans the room to confirm follow-through and then intentionally "doubles back" his gaze mid-scan is performing this "dance move"
What is The Sprinkler?
his term describes "mere facts" that are encoded and easily recalled through practice, forming the foundation for critical thinking
What is Long-Term Memory?
To make checking student work faster, a teacher might design a handout so that the answer to a key question is in the exact same spot on every student’s paper.
What is Standardize the Format?
This simple habit involves waiting a few extra seconds after asking a question before picking a student to answer, giving everyone time to think
What is Wait Time?
This principle suggests that when you give directions, you should stop moving and multitasking so students know your words are the priority.
What is Stand Still (or Show Both Shoulders)?
This type of intervention is the least invasive because it allows a student to fix their behavior without the teacher breaking the thread of instruction
What is a Nonverbal Intervention?
To arrest the process of forgetting, a teacher uses this technique to cause students to recall information after a strategic delay
What is Retrieval Practice?
This term describes ending a pair discussion while energy is still high, rather than waiting for students to run out of things to say.
What is the Crest of the Wave?
To ensure a student who didn't know an answer eventually succeeds, the teacher returns to them after a peer provides the correct response so they can repeat it.
What is No Opt Out?
When a teacher accepts a "mostly right" answer but pushes the student to use more precise, "college-level" vocabulary, they are practicing this.
What is Right Is Right?
his acronym for building attention habits stands for Sit up, Track the speaker, Appreciate ideas, and Rephrase
What is STAR?
This phenomenon describes how experts find it difficult to understand why a task is hard for a novice because the solution is "obvious" to them
What is the Curse of Knowledge?