Six Steps
Great Teachers
Words
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
This step asks student to restate the description, explanation or example in their own words
Step 2
100
Great teachers never use this.
Sarcasm
100
These words occur in high frequency and can have a powerful impact on verbal functions.
Tier 2 Words
100
Name one of the two states that had great examples and resources.
Oklahoma or Tennessee
100
The highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy
Creating (revised) Evaluation (original)
200
In this step you periodically engage students in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms.
Step 4
200
Our host in the Great Teacher Video Series
Todd Whitaker
200
Students need to be exposed to a word at least x times in context before they have enough experience with the word to ascertain its meaning and make it perdurable.
Six times
200
Name two of the strategies in the book Inside Words
Concept Circles Concept Ladder Concepts and Vocabulary: Categories and Labels Contextual Redifinition Dictoglos Focused Cloze Frayer Model Frequent Contact I’m Thinking of a Word I Spy: A Word Scavenger Hunt Lead List-Group-Label Possible Questions Possible Sentences Previewing Content Vocabulary Semantic Feature Analysis Semantic Mapping Survival of the Fittest Think-Pair-Share: Collaborate for Understanding Vocab-O-Gram Word Sort Word Walls
200
What is the lowest level of Bloom's Taxonomy
Remembering (revised) Knowledge (original)
300
In this step teachers create and deliver student friendly descriptions and/or explanations with multiple examples, both verbal and visual.
Step 1
300
There are really only two ways to improve any school, get better teachers or.........
improve the teachers we already have
300
Low-frequency words, often limited to specific content areas.
Tier 3 Words
300
Principal:School :: President:United States is an example of what?
Analogy
300
Identifying Similarities and Differences is an example of...
Marzano's Nine
400
Ask students to construct a picture, symbol or graphic representing the term or phrase.
Step 3
400
The conclusion that individual teachers can have a profound influence on student learning was first noticed in this decade.
1970's prior to that it was thought that the individual teacher made little difference on student achievement.
400
Sight words would be found at this level
Tier 1 Words
400
According to Marzano, which subject area has the most terms? (Mathematics, Science, History or Language Arts)
History General History 1311 U.S. History 425 World History 843 Mathematics 685 Science 773 Language Arts 798 (BAV-page 6)
400
What is the longest river in Michigan?
Grand River - it runs 260 miles
500
Playing Jeopardy is an example of this step.
Step 6
500
This exceptional Garfield High School CA teacher was made famous in the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver"
Jamie Escalante Jamie passed away on March 30, 2010
500
One of the best ways to learn a new word is to associate this with it.
Mental image or symbolic representation
500
Brain research says information is stored both.........
linguistically and non-linguistically
500
Michigan was the first state to guarantee every child the right to a
tax-paid high school education
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