Assessment
This type of assessment gives you an idea of students' prior knowledge.
What is pre-assessment?
This theory of differing learning styles may have 7-8 categories that indicate preferences in how materials is presented or practiced. It can be associated with the terms musical, kinesthetic, auditory, etc.
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
This is more than a collection of activities: it must be coherent, articulated across the grades
What is curriculum?
Understanding by Design
What is UbD?
This type of group has participants that have similar skills.
What is homogenous?
This type of assessment, done throughout the unit, can informally let you know who is "getting it".
What is formative assessment?
Concrete, abstract, sequential, and random are terms associated with this learning style theory.
What is the Gregoric Learning Styles?
This is what students will be able to do at the end of lesson. These are what we should post daily.
What are learning objectives?
Big ideas and essential questions and learning outcomes are part of this step in UbD.
What is Step 1: Identifying Desired Results?
This instructional strategy in which the teacher stops lecturing and allows students to consider a question and share responses with a partner.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
This is an efficient tool that allows you to objectively measure student performance on an assessment activity; it may vary in complexity, but generally do the following: Focuses on measuring very specific stated learning outcomes by using a range to rate performance.
What is a scoring rubric?
This learning style model looks at elements such as lighting, time of day, surroundings, etc.
What is the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model?
The bigger picture of what you want your students to be able to do at the end of a unit, a marking period, the year… These are what we keep in the back of our minds as we design our units and lessons.
What are Expected Learning Outcomes?
Determining criteria, assessments and performance tasks are in this part of UbD.
What is stage 2: Determining acceptable evidence?
Effective teaching through the use of groups relies on teaching the students beforehand, good __________.
What are routines?
This type of assessment measures student’s performances against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning standards. It checks what students are expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage of their education.
What is a Criterion-referenced assessment?
This Learning Style model focuses on which senses we prefer or that dominate how we learn and show our learning.
What is the VAKT (Visual- Auditory-Kinesthetic-Tactile) model?
Describes the action, not the activity or what is being produced.
What is a good posted learning objective?
Determining what resources and materials you will need, and learning activities will you do are part of this stage of Understanding by Design.
What is Stage 3:Planning learning experiences and instruction?
It measures the performance of a student against previous performances from that student. With this method you’re trying to improve yourself by comparing previous results. You’re not comparing yourself against other students, which may be not so good for your self-confidence.
What is Ipsative assessment?
"One Size Fits All" is no longer acceptable.
What is true?
Students need a reason for listening and participating in the lesson. I have often referred to this as authentic learning. The term authentic learning seems to fit perfectly with this explanation. Authentic means____________. The students participated in the lesson because they felt led to do so.
What is genuine?
Providing multiple ways of engagement, representation, action and representation using UbD allows for this type of instruction.
What is differentiated?