Children’s Books :)
Author for "Hooray for Diffendofer Day!"
Who are Dr. Seuss and Jack Prelutsky?
(if one out of the two is guessed, it is acceptable)
Activity where we walked around the classroom and discussed our thoughts on a big poster
What is the "Big Poster" activity?
The overarching theme of Chapter 1: “Missionary Teachers”
What is the feminization of American teaching?
Chapter number of "Let Me Use What I Know"
What is Chapter 10?
A subject our professor used to teach
WHAT is biology?
Author of "Here Comes Teacher Cat"
Who is Deborah Underwood?
Activity where we wrote a map about who we are and discussed it with one another
What is the "Identity Maps" activity?
What did we learn from “The Teacher Wars” about standardized testing
(Open-ended responses)
example:
collecting student data to be used in teacher evaluation
Research-based early childhood reading strategies developed by a Philadelphia nonprofit
What is the "Children's Literacy Initiative" (CLI)?
Due date for the Teacher Interviews
When is May 19th at 9am?
Author of "The Dot"
Who is Peter Reynolds?
Activity where groups talked about a quote in 1 and 3 minute responses
What is the "Save the last word for ME" activity
What are some goals that we discussed during "Big, Measurable Goals?"
[ open-ended answer ]
Example:
a collective vision of what it means to be an excellent teacher, mentorship and trainings for teachers. (Goldstein, 230)
Is students performance higher with a lower teacher turnover rate within the school?
Yes. Students preform better when the teaching is consistent, and reliable. This is where mentorship seeks in and the advantages are more visible. Many initiatives that support training teachers as oppose to firing and hiring new ones have real data to display higher performance rates in the children.
What is a KWL chart?
What do you know, what do you want to know, what did you learn
Who is Lane Smith?
Activity where we discussed a quote/question on a notecard and sent two people to the next table afterwards
What is the "conver-stations" activity?
Education proposal introduced in 2001 that focused on the results of overall schools rather than individual teachers
What is the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) proposal?
What is a benefit of teacher / classroom observation?
*answers open to interpretation*
example: “an obvious benefit of taking classroom observation seriously is that once a supervisor or peer coach has identified the strategies of the most effective teachers, he or she can teach them to other teachers. “If all you do is judge teachers by test results, it doesn’t tell you what you should do differently.”…”(Goldstein, 244)
When was Minecraft released?
November 18, 2011
Main character for "The Big Orange Splot"
Who is Mr. Plumbean?
Activity where students discusses with one another while moving in a circular motion in two separate rows
What is the "Conversation Carousel" activity?
Main people mentioned in "No Shirking, No Skulking" and the overall theme of the chapter
Who are Charlotte Forten, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B Dubois, and Anna Julia Cooper, - the overall theme is how racism/slavery affected education
(Only one name needs to be mentioned to gain points)
A massive study started by Thomas Kane and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that focused on teacher effectiveness
What is the "Measures of Effective Teaching" (MET) project?
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