Elements of Effective Instruction
QAIT Model section that states:The degree to which the teacher makes sure that students are ready to learn a new lesson (that is, have the necessary skills and knowledge to learn it) but have not already learned the lesson.
What is Appropriate levels of Instruction?
This is when students are assigned to a specified curriculum sequence within which they take all their academic courses.
What is tracking?
Tutoring of one student by another.
What is peer tutoring?
Students who are subject to school failure because of their own characteristics and/or because of inadequate responses to their needs by school, family, or community.
Who are students at risk?
Threats or insults that one person directs at another via instant or text messaging or over e-mail.
What is cyberbullying?
QAIT Model section that states: The degree to which students are given enough time to learn the material being preserved
What is time?
The name of the action where you group students by their academic performance within the classroom
What is within-class ability grouping?
Tutoring of a younger student by an older one.
What is cross-age tutoring?
Programs that target infants and toddlers who are at risk to prevent possible later need for remediation.
What is early intervention?
Electronic devices on which students enter answers to questions and have them registered on a computer or interactive whiteboard.
What are electronic response devices(ERD)?
QAIT Model section that states: The degree to which the teacher makes sure that students are motivated to work on instructional tasks and to learn the material being presented.
What is Incentive?
A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels.
What is regrouping?
An approach to teaching that adapts the content, level, pace, and products of instruction in regular classes to accommodate different needs of diverse students.
What is differentiated instruction?
A comprehensive approach to instruction and supportive services for preschool, kindergarten, and grades 1 through 8, with one-to-one tutoring, family support services, and changes in instruction designed to prevent students from falling behind.
What is Success for All?
Video content woven into teachers’ lessons.
What is embedded multimedia?
QAIT Model section that states:The degree to which the presentation of information or skills helps students easily learn the material.
What is Quality of Instruction?
A method of grouping students into separate classes based on ability.
What is between-class ability grouping?
A program in which specially trained teachers provide one-to-one tutoring to first-graders who are not reading adequately.
What is Reading Recovery?
Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from communities where lower socioeconomic status predominates.
What is Compensatory education?
Computer programs that contain large volumes of information, such as encyclopedias and atlases.
What are databases?
The developer of the QAIT Model
Who is Slavin?
A focus on teaching students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards, but also providing many ways for students to reach those standards.
What is untracking?
The name of a phonetic tutoring program that has produced substantially better outcomes for first-graders than either a small-group remedial program or no intervention
What is Reading Rescue?
Federal funding provided to schools that serve many children from low-income homes to help them improve their academic achievement.
What is Title 1?
Strategies wherein ordinary teaching is combined with a wide range of digital applications.
What is blended learning?