Part of the brain responsible for seeing the word.
What is occipital
100
Lobe of the brain where thinking and judgment occur.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
Strategy where students are given time to formulate an answer independently, then share with a peer, and then respond to the entire class.
What is think pair share?
100
Strategy in which the curriculum is abbreviated for students who have already learned the material.
What is compacting?
100
Number of years of teaching necessary for retirement.
What is 30?
200
Part of the left temporal lobe where letter-sound association occurs
What is the angular gyrus?
200
Lobe of the brain where hearing and auditory processing occur - all reading and speech occurs here.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
Strategy in which students travel from question to question posted on the walls in a group, discuss the question and record an answer.
What is carousel?
200
Strategy in which a student identifies a subject that he/she wants to work on and sets up a project to work on independently.
What is independent study?
200
Position of "CEO" of a school system.
What is superintendent?
300
Part of the left temporal lobe where sounds are blended and segmented and words are formed.
What is Wernicke's area?
300
Structure in the brain that acts as the gatekeeper, located in the limbic system.
What is the amygdala?
300
Strategy in which the students travel from poster to poster quietly as they write answers, respond to other posts, etc.
What is chalk talk?
300
The only group of students who benefit from pull-out ability grouping
What is gifted?
300
Name of the system of data collection and retrieval in Ohio, run through the A sites.
What is EMIS?
400
Part of the left temporal lobe where meaning is given to words.
What is Broca's area?
400
Lobe of the brain where sensory stimulii are integrated. Also responsible for manipulating objects.
What is parietal?
400
Strategy in which a reading selection is divided into sections and each person at a table reads ONE section. A table of experts is then formed by students who read the same part. The experts devise a way to teach the information then return to their own table to teach their section.
What is jigsaw?
400
Way that all students, even gifted, acquire knowledge...from BLANK to BLANK.
What is concrete to abstract?
400
Type of classroom in which the teacher "stands and delivers" and students do the same thing at the same time.
What is traditional classroom? (or what is whole class instruction?)
500
The word that defines the idea that the brain uses less and less energy to perform a task once it is mastered.
What is automaticity?
500
Part of the brain which regulates balance and movement.
What is the cerebellum?
500
Strategy in pairs of students take turns speaking for 60 seconds, then 90 seconds, and then 30 seconds to summarize a topic.
What is ABA?
500
Four of the "big rocks" involved in differentiated instruction.
What is flexible grouping, student choice, multiple learning styles, safe environment, ongoing assessment, respectful tasks?