Planning
Class Environment
Assessment
Lesson Plans
Potpourri
100
Taxonomy of six cognitive processes, varying in complexity, that lessons might be designed to foster.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy.
100
Overall psychological atmosphere of the classroom.
What is Classroom climate?
100
Process of observing a sample of a student’s behavior and drawing inferences about the student’s knowledge and abilities.
What is assessment?
100
Desired long-term outcome of instruction.
What is Instructional goal?
100
Collection of a student’s work systematically compiled over a lengthy time period.
What is a portfolio?
200
Approach to instruction in which students work with a small group of peers to achieve a common goal and help one another learn.
What is Cooperative learning?
200
Unpleasant consequence that follows naturally or logically from a student’s misbehavior.
What are logical consequences?
200
Assessment score that specifically indicates what a student knows or can do.
What is Criterion-referenced score?
200
Desired outcome of a lesson or unit.
What is Instructional objective?
200
Mandated obligation of teachers and other school personnel to accept responsibility for students’ performance on high-stakes assessments.
What is Accountability?
300
Practice of individualizing instructional methods, and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional goals, to align with each student’s existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
What is Differentiated instruction?
300
Action that disrupts learning and planned classroom activities, puts students’ physical safety or psychological well-being in jeopardy, or violates basic moral standards.
What is Misbehavior?
300
Assessment conducted in order to facilitate instructional planning and enhance students’ learning.
What is Formative assessment ?
300
General statements regarding the knowledge and skills that students should gain and the characteristics that their accomplishments should reflect.
What are Standards?
300
U.S. legislation passed in 174 mandating that teachers and other school personnel (a) restrict access to students’ test results and school records only to students, their parents, and school employees directly involved in the students’ education; and (b) upon request, make test scores and other information in students’ records available to students and parents, with appropriate assistance in interpreting this information.
What is Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
400
Approach to instruction that uses a variety of techniques (e.g., explanations, questions, guided and independent practice) in a fairly structured manner to promote learning of basic skills.
What is Direct instruction?
400
Establishment and maintenance of a classroom environment conducive to learning and achievement.
What is Classroom management?
400
Assessment conducted in order to determine students’ final achievement related to a particular topic or content area.
What is Summative assessment ?
400
Predetermined guide for a lesson that identifies instructional goals or objectives, necessary materials, instructional strategies, and one or more assessment methods.
What is Lesson plan?
400
U.S. legislation passed in 2001 that mandates regular assessments of basic skills to determine whether students are making adequate yearly progress in relation to state-determined standards in reading, math, and science.
What is No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?
500
Approach to instruction in which students have considerable say in the issues they address and how to address them.
What is Learner-directed instruction?
500
Classroom management strategy in which a teacher gives the impression of knowing what all students are doing at all times.
What is withitness?
500
Extent to which an assessment instrument actually measures what it is intended to measure and allows appropriate inferences about the characteristic or ability in question.
What is Validity ?
500
Approach to instructional planning in which a teacher first determines the desired end result (i.e., what knowledge and skills students should acquire) and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies.
What is Backward design?
500
Extent to which an assessment instrument yields consistent information about the knowledge, skills, or characteristics being assessed.
What is Reliability?
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