Acronyms Galore
ZPD stands for
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
The OG of DI
Who is Carol Ann Tomlinson?
A teaching practice where students are placed into temporary, fluid groups based on current learning needs, interests, or assessment data, and regrouped frequently to match specific instructional goals.
What is flexible grouping?
Dimensions of the framework for the NGSS.
What are DCI, CCC & SEP?
Number of minutes of science instruction per day in early elementary classrooms.
What is 18 minutes?
PLCE stands for
What is a Positive Learning Community Environment?
This prominent figure is the patron Saint of teachers.
Who is St. John Baptist de La Salle?
A classroom where all students read the same chapter, complete the same lab or end-of-chapter questions, and take the same quiz—all on the same timetable.
What is a traditional or undifferentiated classroom?
Observing, measuring, inferring, classifying are examples of...
What are science process skills?
Fraction of elementary teachers that felt prepared to teach reading vs science.
What is 2/3 as compared to less than 1/3?
ATLAS stands for
What is Always Think Like A Scientist?
This teacher reminds us of the importance of building trusting relationships and fostering a growth mindset in the classroom.
Who is Rita Pierson?
Teachers proactively plan varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they will show what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can, as efficiently as possible.
What is differentiated Instruction?
The term best describes the type of learning that should be taking place in your science classroom.
What is social constructivism?
In Joyful Science, Barnett identifies two factors that should be taken into consideration when planning for meaningful and joyful science.
What are students' interests and prior knowledge?
COVER stands for
What is Connect, Organize, Visuals, & Elaborative Rehearsal?
This prominent figure emphasizes the importances of social interactions between peers and teachers during the learning process.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
Building community, High-quality curriculum, Respectful tasks ,flexible grouping, Continual assessment, and teaching up
What are hallmarks of DI?
The interplay of these four lenses of design characteristics are essential for creating a positive learning community environment.
What are knowledge, learner, assessment & community centered?
Three types of assessment that inform instructional decision making.
What are pre-assessment, formative & summaitve assessments?
HIPE stands for
What is Hook, Ignite, Pose a Question/Provocation to Engage?
Referring to these two influential figures in this order reminds us of the importance of creating a PLCE
Who is Maslow before Bloom?
Students coming together as a whole group to begin a study, moving out to pursue learning in small groups or individually, coming back together to share and make plans for additional investigation, moving out again for more work, coming together again to share or review, and so on.
What is flow of instruction?
Descriptive, Classificatory, Experimental, Modeling and Egineering
What are types of investigations appropriate for K-8 students?
Peeling the Apple depicts...
What are the levels of classroom culture- Level one: physical and social, Level two: values and goals & Level three: operational theories?