Chapters 1 and 2
Chapters 3,5 and 6
Chapters 6 and 7
Chapters 8, 9 and 10
Chapters 11,12,and 13
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Teaching is an art, science, or both? Support your position with classroom examples.
What is ............ Art - natural teaching instincts Science - taught specific teaching methods and strong foundational knowledge of concepts and skills being taught
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Levels of learning; remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating.
What is... Bloom's Taxonomy of higher order thinking.
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precise communications of learning intent - outlines behavior, conditions, and criterion
What are instructional objectives?
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...the process of making a judgment about student performance based on data.
What is… evaluation.
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...develop effective problem solvers able to solve everyday problems, to teach academic information, and to develop inquiry skills.
What are... the major intended outcomes of the problem-solving approach to learning.
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Willing to share self with students, has positvie expectations for students, excited about teaching, caring, values diversity, and collaborates.
What are six common dispositions and attitudes that effective teachers should hold?
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planning well, using time effectively, teaching at the appropriate level of learners, showing respect for learners, and establishing rules, procedure, and routines...
What are… specific steps teachers must implement for effective classroom management.
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...abbreviated objectives, specifies student performance and the product
What are… informational objectives.
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...the gathering of information (data) for making evaluation judgments.
What is… assessment.
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Level I is the traditional teacher-directed method where the teacher provides the problem and procedure leading to the intended conclusion. Level II is where the teacher or textbook provide the problem, but learners develop a process for solving the problem. Level III gives learners almost total self-direction.
What are… the three major levels of problem-based learning.
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Explain the importance of each of the six common dispostions and attidues that effective teachers should possess and how they effect you as a classroom teacher...
willing to share self with students - positive expecatations for students - caring- excited about teaching- values diversity willing to collaborate -
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...teacher teaches and learner learns…verbal, nonverbal, interaction patterns of the classroom, and physical environment contribute to...
What is… the importance of the communication process and the influence of physical space on the communication process.
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...instruction that involves all learners in all activities at the same time.
What is… teacher-centered instruction
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...grading system where grades are given relative to an established grading criteria.
What is… the absolute grading system?
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...preparing the class attitude and environment for planned simulations and games, prepare learners for the activity and emphasize that winning is NOT the objective, know the rules, play the games prior to using in the classroom….etc
What is… the teacher's role when introducing and using simulations and games as an instructional method?
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What is the importance of differentiated instruction in planning instruction?
What is... all learners are different. Teachers need to adapt instruction to the uniqueness of the learners and their style of learning. Teachers may have regular learners, gifted learners, limited English learners, and learners with disabilities in the same class. Instruction needs to be adapted to these different groups because they will most likely learn differently.
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What is the importance of educational standards in teaching?
-schools and teachers should know what learners at the different grade levels are expected to learn. -public call for the need of standards to be established at both the national and state levels. - most states have established a set of expectations or have adopted the Common Core standards. -creates focus and strategically builds on concepts and skills for college and career readiness.
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...an interactive model that enables learners to work and learn at different paces, use a variety of materials, and construct their own meaning.
What is… student-centered instruction.
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...format for teachers to present information, provide examples, and give learners opportunities to practice and provide feedback, format is followed by questioning, review and practice, and correction of errors
What is… the direct teaching method.
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…being a reflective teacher, model reflective thinking, teach students to be reflective about what they learn etc..
What is… making the classroom more conducive to the development of thinking skills?
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engage in quality planning and preparation, prepare a positive classroom environment, use proven intructional techniques, and exhibit professional behavior
What are the four main skill areas for effective teaching.
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cognitive, affective, and psychomotor
What are three domains of learning
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…content, standard, goals and objectives, topic, do, teacher characteristics, learner characteristics, the learning environment, maturity level of learners and their abilities, environmental factors, prior knowledge...
...variables that should be considered in the selection of an appropriate instructional method, lesson plan, and lesson procedures.
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...grading system where grades are assigned with respect to the performance of other students, grading on the curve.
What is… the relative grading system.
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...can be improved in everyone, formulate vital and precise questions of inquiry, interpret information against relevant criteria, think open mindedly within alternative systems of thought, and communicate solutions of complex problems.
What is… characteristics of a critical thinker
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