Reflective Action in Teaching
Lesson Planning and Sequencing
Bloom's Taxonomy
Terms and Definitions
DOK and an EXTRA
100

Voluntarily and willingly taking responsibility for personal actions

What is Active Reflective Thinking?

100

in process evaluatons of student comprehension, learning needs and academic progress during a lesson, unit or course

What is formative assessment?

100

The three domains of Bloom's Taxonomy

What are cognitive, affective and psychomotor?

100

Subset of knowledge stored in an organized manner in the brain.

What is Schema Theory?

100

Requires reasoning, developing a plan or a sequence of steps, some complexity (DOK)

What is strategic thinking?
200

The combination of caring and perceptiveness that allows teachers to focus on the needs of their students.

What is Withitness?

200

Specific short-term descriptions of what teachers are expected to teach or what students are expected to learn.

What are educational objectives?

200

Retrieve, recall, or recognize relevant knowledge from long-term memory.


What is Remembering?

200

Is used to distinguish between the achievement of significant, meaningful and useful knowledge and skills from that which is trivia and unrelated to students' lives.

What is Authentic Learning?

200

Process information at a low level (DOK)

What is recall/reproduction?

300
A curriculum that revisits basic ideas repeatedly, building upon them until the student has fully grasped the concepts.

What is the Spiral Curriculum?

300

Student and teacher supplies and technology necessary to teach a lesson

What are materials?

300

Break material into its constituent parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and/or to an overall structure or purpose

What is Analyze?

300

A mode of teaching that accounts for students' individual needs and learning styles before designing a lesson plan

What is differentiated instruction?

300

Use information or conceptual knowledge, two or more steps (DOK)

Skill or Concept
400

A goal or expectation intended to ensure high-quality educational experiences for all students.

What is a standard?

400

the wide variety of methods or tools used to measure specific elements of learning

What are assessments?

400

Make judgments based on criteria and standards

What is Evaluate?

400

A teacher holds expectations for students, which through social interaction, causes the students to behave in such a manner as to confirm the originally false (but now true) expectation.

What is self fulfilling prophecy?

400

Requires an investigation, time to think and process multiple conditions of the problem (DOK)

What is Extended Thinking?

500

National Association of Education of Young Children

What is NAEYC?

500

The three levels of behavioral objectives

What are global, educational and instructional?

500

 Put elements together to form a new coherent or functional whole; reorganize elements into a new pattern or structure (design a new set for a theater production, write a thesis, develop an alternative hypothesis based on criteria, invent a product, compose a piece of music, write a play).

What is Create?

500

This system of planning allows teachers to better explain to students exactly what is expected of them and how to succeed.

What is Writing Behavioral Objectives?

500

The level of confidence teachers have in their ability to guide students to success.

What is Teacher Efficacy?

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