Assessment
When the test yields the same or similar scores consistently.
Reliability
This question is one that limits an answer to a single or a small number of responses.
Convergent
A teacher-centered, knowledge acquisition, presentation-recitation model for teaching facts, rules, and action sequences.
Direct Instruction
You can find a list of action verbs to use when writing objectives here.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Developed the Theory of Multiple Intelligence's.
Howard Gardner
When a test measures what it says it is measuring.
Validity
This question is one that has many or a broad range of acceptable
Divergent
A model of instruction that requires that the teacher shift from assuming all the responsibility for presenting content to students increasingly accepting responsibility for their own learning, terminating in content mastery.
Gradual Release Model
This framework defines four domains of teaching responsibility to define the complex activity of teaching.
Danielson
1 of the 5 Key Behaviors
1. Lesson Clarity
2. Instructional Variety
3. Teacher Task Orientation
4. Engagement in the Learning Process
5. Student Success Rate
A collection of work that shows a learner's growth in proficiency, long-term achievement, and significant accomplishments in a given academic area.
Portfolio
Identify the level of behavioral complexity for the following question: What is the definition of photosynthesis?
Knowledge
Name 1 classroom management strategy learned from last week's class.
Sticker charts, marbles in a jar, coupons, warm and fuzzies, teachers vs. students, group points, card punches, classroom chain
1 of the four Danielson Framework domains.
1. Planning and Preparation
2. The Classroom Environment
3. Professional Responsbilities
4. Instruction
Maximizing each student's academic success and personal growth as a learner by meeting the student where he or she is and providing the needed instruction and resources that lift him or her to the next step on the learning ladd
Differentiated Instruction
Name 2 formats of an objective test item.
True/False
Multiple Choice
Matching
Completion
Sometimes as much as ___% of all school time can be devoted to questions and answers.
80
Classroom Management - These should be clear, concise, and you must be willing to enforce them.
Rules
This Gradual Release of Responsibility model incorporates four key components that should be in every lesson plan. Name one.
These convey the specific behaviors to be attained, the conditions under which the behaviors must be demonstrated, and the proficiency level at which the behaviors are to be performed based on the learning histories, abilities, and current levels of understanding of your learners.
Objectives
The goal of ____________ assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.
The goal of __________ assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
Formative & Summative
Questions at this highest level of cognitive complexity require the students to form judgments and make decisions using stated criteria.
Evaluation
To keep students involved, engaged, and on their toes, try to mix up your ___________ style.
teaching
The Domains of Learning are comprised of three different complexity levels of behavior which are referred to as the:
1. Cognitive Domain
2. Affective Domain
3. Psychomotor Domain
As a beginning teacher, you will need four inputs to the planning process to complete your unit and lesson plans. Name one of the four.
1. Knowledge of Instructional Goals and Objectives
2. Knowledge of Learners
3. Knowledge of Subject Matter
4. Knowledge of Teaching Methods