The perception that the environment is responsive to our actions
What is Agency?
100
The failure to generalize learning from one situation or problem to another.
What is Transfer?
100
The simplest interest or enjoyment associated with engaging in a task
What is Intrinsic Value? (226)
100
(1) Concepts in the form of questions, (2) a point that sets the focus for the lesson or unit, (3) broad questions that promote depth of knowledge and understanding
What is an Essential Question?
100
The facts, generalizations, and concepts that we know
What is Declarative Knowledge? (123)
200
A term used to describe telling stories in which we relegate ourselves to a passive role (the inverse of agency)
What is Victimicity?
200
Creates the acronym IRE
What is teacher Initiates, student Responds, and teacher Evaluates?
200
The term describing students that are actively involved in learned experiences that involve and provide benefit to the communities in which they live.
What is Place-based Education? (240)
200
The elaborate and meaningful mental networks in long-term memory where concepts and knowledge are organized.
What is Schemata? (111)
200
Wisely stated: "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else"
Who is Yogi Berra?
300
Strategy of arranging for a student toto figure something out independently, without full awareness, and then reflecting on it.
What is Revealing?
300
The attentive silence after a child's comment or a teacher's question.
What is "wait time"?
300
A successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject
What is Cooperative Learning? (278)
300
Providing unrelated facts and details instead of building deep and enduring understanding
What is "Covering" Content? (110)
300
Statements that specify what learners will know or be able to do as a result of a learning activity
What are Learning Outcomes?
400
A key negative conjunction that when used completely undermines the first piece of feedback given to a student.
What is "but"?
400
The theory or study of knowledge
What is Epistemology?
400
Creates the acronym FAPE
What is Free, Appropriate, Public Education? (271)
400
examples include: vocabulary, language structure, syntax, and grammar); ELL students must comprehend this before they can truely grasp new concepts
What is Receptive Language? (111)
400
Beginning with what ELLs will understand at the end of an instructional unit and then planning instruction to enable them to reach this end point
What is Backward Design?
500
The sense that is one acts strategically they can accomplish their goals; main thing children should leave school with.
What is a Sense of Agency?
500
The view of knowledge and communication in which knowledge is composed of facts possessed by teachers, who have authority to transmit it to children, and children know about the world only through the knowledge that is transmitted to them.
What is Transmissionary?
500
The setting that provides the student with adequate support to access and make progress in the general education curriculum, while also providing the greatest access to mainstream peers
What is Least Restrictive Environment? (271)
500
The study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages; an enduring language ability
What is Syntax?
500
Lifelong learning, habits of mind; example: "Develop own criteria for the roles of heroes and villans."