Acronyms
Assessment and Evaluation
Planning
Instruction/Curriculum
Structures
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A & E
What is What is assessment and evaluation?
100
It is the document that outlines all of the district literacy and numeracy common assessments.
What is the Bluewater Assessment Framework?
100
A documented plan based on previous data that is developed by the administrator and school staff to guide student and staff ongoing learning throughout the year.
What is a school improvement plan?
100
Describes the expected knowledge and skills that students are expected to demonstrate in greater detail.
What is a specific expectation?
100
A reference chart that anchors new learning.
What is an anchor chart?
200
D. I.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
200
It is the assessment and evaluation policy document for the province of Ontario.
What is Growing Success?
200
It is when you integrate more than one subject into a unit plan.
What is interdisciplinary planning?
200
They are Minds on, action, and consolidation.
What are the components of a 3-part lesson?
200
The three parts one might use to dissect a curriculum expectation.
What are the "know do and be"?
300
C.A.S.I.
What is comprehension,attitude, strategies, interests?
300
Assessment that is accompanied by a number or letter grade (summative) which compares the student’s achievement with standards.
What is assessment of learning?
300
A group of educators who work together to learn on behalf of their students.
What is a professional learning community? (PLC)
300
- based on Curriculum Expectations allows for deeper level thinking multiple entry points and open ended allows students to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways (DI) usually includes all four categories of learning
What is a Rich Assessment Task?
300
This approach is used by the teacher to make the reading process visible for students, by articulating what readers think, notice, feel, and question. As they read a text, the teacher is able to make the invisible “in-the-head” strategies that good readers use visible for all students to learn to use.
What is a read aloud or modelled reading?
400
I.D.P.
What is Interdisciplinary Planning?
400
A measurement tool created with students which provides a mechanism to record and measure student achievement and which follows a clear set of guidelines.
What is an instructional rubric?
400
Two or more teachers teaching together.
What is co-teaching?
400
Students, Structures, Strategies
What are the 3 components of Differentiated Instruction?
400
This approach allows students and teachers to work together on a piece of writing. The teacher is the scribe, and the students and the teacher collaborate to create the text. The writing that is produced should be easily available to students so they may read it over and over and use it as a model for their own writing. This writing can be taught in large- or small-group settings.
What is shared writing?
500
P.R.I.M.E.
What is professional resources and instruction for mathematics educators?
500
The teacher and student work together to assess the student’s knowledge, what she or he needs to learn to improve and extend this knowledge, and how the student can best get to that point.
What is assessment as learning?
500
The teacher plans and implements Modelled, Shared, Guided and Independent components throughout their instruction to meet the needs of all students at all times.
What is the Gradual Release of Responsibility?
500
The Zone of Proximal Development was developed by:_____
Who is Vygotsky?
500
This is a written piece used in education as an example of quality writing and can be used as a foundation from which students learn the writing process. It can be used to teach lessons regarding form craft, structure, symbolism, theme, imagery and tone to help the students become better readers and better writers
What is a mentor text or touchstone text?
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