Instructional Design and Planning
This is the process of going through a lesson mentally from the student's point of view and anticipate explanations, information, directions, additional instruction, etc.
What is to preplan?
This is essential for managing any classroom or group of children. Teachers use this to convey additional meaning during lessons and to affirm or correct students’ behavior.
What is nonverbal communication?
This should be prompt, specific, and goal-oriented.
What is teacher feedback?
These can be formal or informal and are used by teachers to monitor student progress throughout a unit.
What are formative assessments?
Teachers must self-report within ____ hours to appropriate authorities any arrest/charges involving the abuse of a child.
What is 48?
This is a set of leveled models used to classify learning targets by complexity and specificity.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
These can make lessons, assignments, and learning experiences more accessible to students with disabilities.
What is assistive technology?
This approach focuses on the students building social skills while learning from one another and their community. This approach also aims to connect learning experiences in school to life outside of school, providing students with real-world opportunities to apply their knowledge.
What is community-centered approach?
These evaluate student learning and mastery at the end of a unit by comparing the student’s score to a benchmark or standard.
What are summative assessments?
A teacher's certificate can be suspended or revoked for conviction of a felony or a misdemeanor other than _____.
What is a minor traffic violation?
This is a teaching strategy in which small groups of students work together on a task in order to improve their understanding of a concept. It is important that the groups are formed with students of varying ability levels (heterogeneous grouping).
What is cooperative learning?
In this environment, students take ownership over what is discussed—from the questions themselves to possible answers.
What is a student-led discussion?
This refers to any classroom that addresses specific learning styles, needs, interests, cultural backgrounds, and goals of individual students or student groups. To do this, schools, educators, counselors, and other specialists may use a variety of methods, including modifying assignments, allowing students choices while learning, or incorporating student interests.
What is a learner-centered environment?
These compare and rank students in relation to one another, typically by using percentiles. This type of test reports whether students performed better or worse than an average student of the same age or grade level.
What are norm-referenced tests?
IDEA requires that states provide ______ to children with disabilities in ____.
What is a free appropriate public education (FAPE); the regular education classroom?
In this instructional strategy, a teacher provides differentiated reading instruction to small groups of students who have similar reading abilities.
What is guided reading?
In this learning strategy, student questions, ideas, and analysis are highlighted and fostered, focusing on the student perspective regarding a particular open question or problem. This strategy is particularly useful for initial student engagement, leading students to move beyond basic knowledge to a deeper understanding of critical thinking, evidence-based reasoning, and creative problem solving.
What is inquiry-based learning?
This is designed to increase students' reading comprehension and includes summarizing, generating questions, clarifying, and predicting.
What is reciprocal teaching?
These measure student performance against set criteria of learning goals or standards. This type of test compares students’ results to the learning standard, rather than comparing results to other students.
What are criterion-referenced tests?
This can happen at any time during the school year for just cause.
What is a suspension or dismissal at any time?
This is a teacher-centered instructional strategy based on the behaviorist point of view that the teacher is the expert in the classroom who should systematically and explicitly pass along information to the student.
What is direct instruction?
In this model, classroom time is used by the teacher to facilitate learning and help students gain practice applying knowledge learned outside of the classroom. Instead of the typical “exit ticket,” in which students hand in a ticket showing mastery or further questions about understanding, students use “entrance tickets,” in which they enter the classroom with a completed assignment, written response, quiz, or blog post serving as their “ticket.”
What is a flipped classroom?
In this strategy, the teacher uses one-way communication to attempt to convey knowledge to the learner orally; recommended time 10-15 min; least effective teaching strategy.
What is the lecture method?
These are a type of assessment that occurs prior to instruction. This allows a teacher to identify students’ individual strengths, weaknesses, and skills so that they can proactively plan instruction and intervention.
What is a diagnostic assessment?
These are Florida's core standards for effective educators.
What are Florida Educator Accomplished Practices (FEAPs)?