ABCD's of Teaching
The opening of a lesson that is designed to get students involved, engaged, and interested in the topic of the day.
Hook & Link
A teaching strategy where the teacher explicitly shows the students how to complete an activity or assignment before the student begins
Modeling
The most basic level of questioning according to Blooms Taxonomy is
Remembering
The set of words and ways of organizing words that are typically used in school
Academic Language
Categorize the following sentence as either positive or negative:
Yes, Emily, that is one way to solve the equation.
Positive
This includes 3 parts: the behavior, the condition, and the criterion.
This method allows teachers to step back and allow students who have mastered a concept help their peers; often this method uses group learning as well.
Student Centered
The third level of Bloom's Taxonomy; provides opportunities for student's to use ideas, theories, or problem solving techniques and apply them to new situations.
Applying or Application
What is one way to build your students confidence in using academic language?
Pair share, group work with designated roles, whole group discussions where students are called on by the teacher, vocabulary practice, etc.
When feedback is general, it must always also be
Incongruent
Based on the following behavioral objective, identify the ACTION and CONDITION:
"Write an essay describing the process of selecting members of the House of Representatives, incorporating the five major steps central to the election process listed in the textbook."
Condition: listed in the textbook
This method of teaching usually has 3 steps; it starts with the teacher showing the students what to do, and ends with the students practicing by themselves
Scaffolding Method
What level of Bloom's Taxonomy would the following question fall under?
How is smoking connected to lung cancer?
Analyzing or Analysis
What are 3 examples of a graphic organizer?
Venn diagram, Webbing, T-chart, Sequence, Cause and Effect
Is the following feedback evaluative or corrective?
Nathan, you didn't do well enough on your journal entry.
Evaluative
A thought provoking and challenging question that encourages discussion amongst students.
Essential Question
"Fact and Opinion" and "KWL Charts" are types of?
Graphic Organizers
This level of Bloom's Taxonomy requires students to demonstrate that they can combine concepts to build new ideas for new situations.
Creating or Synthesis
Why do students struggle with academic language?
Their language used outside of school does not include advanced words or phrases.
This type of feedback may include important information, but the information may not be specifically related to the task focus
Incongruent
When writing a learning objective, you should use the "ABCD" method. What does each letter in "ABCD" stand for?
Audience, Behavior, Conditions of Performance, Degree of Accuracy
This method is a type of scaffolding where the teacher demonstrates, the students help the teacher solve, and then the teacher releases the students to practice on their own.
I do, We do, You do Method
An open-ended question that may have many appropriate answers is called...?
Divergent Question
Word walls, word banks, sentence stems, group discussions, writing, reading, etc.
In order for feedback to be effective, it needs to have what criteria?