Students bring this with them. It influences how the students understand the material you share and the lesson or learning opportunities you provide.
What is background knowledge?
100
Involves thinking, knowledge, and skills that develop across the life span.
What is oral language?
100
Uniquely human act or process of sharing and exchanging information, ideas, and emotions using oral language.
What is speaking?
100
Understand the meaning, translation and interpretation of instructions and problems.
What are Comprehension Questions?
100
a great way for teachers to determine what their students know, need to know and misunderstand.
What are well crafted questions
200
Completes the circle of assessment, planning, and instruction by providing teachers and students with evidence of learning.
What is checking for understanding?
200
Teachers talk more and students talk less. There is an increased focus on basic skills and less attention to critical thinking and creative thinking.
What is a classroom with an increased number of students living in poverty?
200
The process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages.
What is listening?
200
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction.
What are application questions?
200
Reception, transformation and production.
What are the three types of scaffolding.
300
Think about the outcomes, goals, and objectives we have for student learning first and then plan instruction and develop curriculum to close the gap between what students already know and what they need to know.
What are the stages in the Backward Design Process?
300
Accountable talk, noticing nonverbal clues, value lineups, retellings, think-pair- share, misconception analysis and whip around.
What is strategies in checking for understanding?
300
a cooperative discussion that allows students to discuss their responses with a classmate before they share it with the class.
What is think-pair-share?
300
Separate material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood.
What are Analysis questions?
300
Formulate questions, present the question, prompt student responses, process student responses, and reflect on questioning practice.
What is Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking (quilt)
400
Factors contributing to the gap, such as poverty, race, and teacher quality; multiple contexts in which the achievement gap exists, such as in-school factors; and time.
What are the dimensions of the achievement gap?
400
It is crucial to classroom discourse because it creates shared expectations for all of the academic communication in the classroom.
Key words are categorize, combine, compile, compose, create, plan, organize, relate, summarize and relate.
What are Synthesis questions?
400
eye contact, facial expressions, body posture, physical distance, silence, verbal acknowledgements and subsummeries.
What are good listening skills?
500
Align with enduring understandings.
Allow for differentiation.
Focus on gap analysis.
Lead to precise teaching.
What should checking for understanding do?
500
At this grade level students deliver focused, coherent presentations that convey ideas clearly and relate to the background and interests of the audience.
What is the goals for speaking and listening in 3rd to 5th grade?
500
The questioning technique of pausing to allow learners time to digest the question, retrieve information, and formulate a response.
What is wait time?
500
Make judgements about the value of ideas or materials.
What are Evaluation questions?
500
Developed by educators as a way of engaging a group of learners in a conversation and series of questions.