Strategies
Theories
Creating Lessons
Abbreviations
Standards
100
Connecting new material to the student's prior knowledge and experiences
What is: activating schema
100
The idea that physical movement facilitates learning (J. Asher)
What is: Total Physical Response / TPR
100
All good lessons should start with one of these.
What is: a lesson plan
100
ELL
What is: English Language Learner
100
Name of the standards adopted by Vermont, to ensure academic literacy and promote critical thinking in the content areas of English, Social Studies and Math
What are: Common Core State Standards / CCSS
200
Having students work together to facilitate learning
What is: grouping or collaborative/cooperative learning
200
Classification system, often shown as a pyramid chart, that uses verbs to show 6 levels of progressively sophisticated cognition.
What is: Bloom's Taxonomy
200
(1) The smaller assessments given during instruction (2) The final assessment
What are: Formatives and Summative
200
L1 and L2
What are: First Language and Second Language
200
Name of the standards adopted by Vermont to ensure academic English and critical thinking in the content area of science
What are: Next Generation Science Standards / NGSS
300
Involving students in kinesthetic movement to facilitate learning
What is: Total Physical Response / TPR
300
Theory abbreviated as I + 1 (S. Krashen)
What is: Comprehensible Input
300
The scoring guide or benchmark specifics that are used to measure a student's achievement on a given task or assessment
What is: a Rubric
300
BICS and CALP
What are: Basic Interpersonal Intercommunication Skills and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
300
Can Do Descriptors for English Language Proficiency, using the 4 communication skills at different grade levels
What is: WIDA
400
Teaching by using extra 'supports' to help students learn (L. Vygotsky)
What is: scaffolding
400
A student pushes his learning envelop when he enters this 'zone' (L. Vygotsky)
What is: Zone of Proximal Development / ZPD
400
Beginning the lesson plan by deciding what the final assessment or product will be
What is: UbD or Backward Design
400
HOTS
What are: Higher Order Thinking Skills
400
ACTFL standards for world language teachers
What are: the 5 C's (Communication, Community, Comparison, Connections, Culture)
500
Handling these concrete items makes it easier for students to understand abstract ideas.
What are: manipulatives (or realia)
500
The idea that individuals have several distinct ways of processing information and interacting with the world; this theory that became simplified into the idea of 'learning styles' (H. Gardener)
What are: Multiple Intelligences
500
Delivering content and accommodating in such a way that students of different ability levels can understand
What is: Differentiated Instruction
500
SIOP
What is: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Model
500
Assessments using a scale of 1-4, with 3 showing demonstrated mastery of a target skill, are characteristic of this approach to learning.
What is: Proficiency Based Learning
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