Plan Demands
It's Taxonomy Time
What's the Differentiation?
Queries about Theories
Potluck
Don't Make an ASSessment out of me
100


States what a student will know or be able to do by the end of a lesson


What are learning outcomes/objectives?

100

the students are asked to take the material that they have learned and design or produce a unique answer to an unfamiliar problem

What is creating?


100

Believes that instruction should be tailored to meet individuals' needs. 

Who is Carol Ann Tomlinson? 

100

Zone of proximal development, working with others, more knowledgeable other. 

Who is Lev Vygotsky?

100

A three-stage approach that identifies the desired result first and then “works backward” to determine assessment criteria before developing instruction to achieve the desired results.

Backwards Design

100

An evaluation is used during instruction to monitor students’  learning and adjust teaching.

What is Formative Assessment?

200


The portion of the lesson during which you engage the students learning of the topic.


What is the lead in or hook?

200

students are being asked to go beyond just memorizing the facts and use these facts in a new environment 

What is applying?

200

Giving the students varying material in which they apply the same process.

Example: When learning about "setting", students are given different books to read. 

What is differentiating by content?

200

The theorist who argued that culturally responsive instruction is about teaching children “habits of mind and helping them to build cognitive processes and structures so that as they move through school they are able to do complex thinking and independent learning.”

Who is Zaretta Hammond?

200

Created to establish high and rigorous standards for what effective teachers should know and be able to do. They help new teachers by addressing what is required in various categories.

What are the INTASC standards?

200

An assessment that judges students’ overall mastery of the intended outcomes at the end of a unit or period of time.

What is Summative Assessment? 

300

Explains where the lesson fits into the larger circular unit. 

What is situating the lesson?

300

Students are being asked to simply recall, describe, define or recognize facts t

What is remembering? 

300

Varying the way students arrive at the final product.

Example:  When learning about writing a summary, some students are using a graphic organizer, some students are using sentence starters, and some are writing independently.

What is differentiating by process?

300

Stages of cognitive development. Each new task should begin with concrete activities then you can more to each new task. 

Who is Piaget?

300

This theorist describes abolitionist teachers as people who are willing to put their reputation, home, and lives on the line for other people's children.


Who is Dr. Bettina Love?

300

Used before instruction to assess students’ prior knowledge and skills.

What is Preassessment?

400

The portion of the lesson that allows the teacher to see what the students have learned.

What is assessment?

400

The students are asked to make judgments and decisions based on a rubric that determines how good the response was 

What is evaluating?

400

Readiness, Learning profile or Interest?

What are the various grouping strategies?  

400

Laid the foundations for discovery learning. Differed from other theorists in that he believed that social factors, particularly language, impacted learning.  This led to the concept of "scaffolding". 



Who is Jerome Bruner ?

400

A popular notion about learning that has been debunked by educational psychologists. While people have preferences, there is little research to support that aligning instruction with these actually helps students learn. 

What are learning styles?

400

Compares a students performance to a standard of mastery.

Criterion and Referenced Test

500

Identifies the content or skills students will master within a year or course

What is state and or content standards?

500

Students are taking the facts that have already memorized and elaborate, summarize or explain these facts

What is understanding?  

500

Changing the content or level or rigor


Example:  While some students are being asked to write multi-paragraph essays, others are being asked to draw a picture and write a sentence about it. 

What is modification? 

500

Theorist who believed that students' interests should guide the curriculum. Therefore, education should not just be teachers making students learn mindless facts that they would soon forget. He thought it should be a journey of experiences, building upon each other to create and understand new experiences.

Who is John Dewey?

500

an educator’s ability to recognize students’ cultural displays of learning and respond positively and constructively with teaching moves that use cultural knowledge as a scaffold to connect what the students know to new concepts and content in order to build learning capacity as well as cognitive processes.

What is culturally responsive instruction?

500

The type of test where a student's score is reported as a comparison to the scores of a large sample of students.

Norm-Referenced Test

600


 

A term that encompasses the knowledge, skills, and experiences acquired through historical and cultural interactions of an individual in their community and family life and culture through everyday living

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