Subject Matter Knowledge
Learning Environment
Instructional Planning and Strategies
Communication
Assessment
100
This style of learning applies methodology and language from more than one "discipline" to examine a central theme, topic, issue, or problem.
What is interdisciplinary learning?
100
This term refers to the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly despite disruptive behavior by students.
What is Classroom management?
100
This term refers to a classification of learning objectives proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom who also edited the first volume of the standard text
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
100
Teachers have the HOTS for this type of learning which requires more cognitive processing than what is standard.
What are Higher Order Thinking Skills?
100
This type of assessment is not data driven but rather content and performance driven and should be used to inform instruction.
What is Informal (Formative) Assessment?
200
This term originated in the UK as a contraction of "numerical literacy". In the US, it is somewhat better known as "Quantitative Literacy".
What is Numeracy?
200
These types of problems can be reduced in the classrooms by teachers who clearly set up rules, establish routines, create engaging activities and communicate expectations.
What are disruptive behavioral problems?
200
This umbrella term indicates that in order for students to learn, they must do more than just listen: They must "actively" read, write, discuss, or be engaged in solving problems.
What is Active Learning?
200
For example teachers make comments that are fair and believable; suggest points for growth in a gentle manner; show evidence of genuine interest in and concern for the student thus strengthening specific student behavior and performance.
What is Positive Feedback?
200
This is a set of guidelines for rating student work.
What is a rubric?
300
This philosophy for effective teaching involves providing students with multiple avenues to acquiring content such as hands-on activities, independent study, small group learning, and use of technology.
What is differentiated learning?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!
In a study reviewing 11,000 pieces of research that spanned 50 years, three researchers determined that there are 28 factors that influence student learning and placed them in rank order. This factor was deemed the most important factor governing student learning.
300
This instructional technique is used to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students. The teacher provides significant support at first, but these supports are gradually removed as students develop autonomous learning strategies
What is Scaffolding?
300
Higher Order Thinking questions usually start with one of these three interrogative words.
What are How, Why and What if?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This type of test is one in which a student's performance is measured in comparison to everyone else who took the test
400
Among the benefits of interdisciplinary teaching is that it allows the students to understand the relationships among these.
What are content areas (disciplines)?
400
Known as an educator, educational speaker and author, his publications provide advice on the improvement of academic instruction, classroom management and teacher expectations of students.
Who is Harry Wong?
400
This components to this classification of educational goals includes remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
400
These are the six cognitive levels originally defined in Bloom's Taxonomy. Their revised names are remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
What are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation?
400
In this type of assessment, an individual or group's performance is compared to a larger group. Many times the larger group is representative of a cross-section of all US students.
What is Norm-Based Assessment?
500
This term, first used by J. H. Flavell in 1976 refers to one’s knowledge concerning one's own cognitive processes and products or anything related to them.
What is meta-cognition?
500
Some of the best strategies for teaching rules in the classroom include identifying and discussing the rules together as a class as well as this.
What is modeling?
500
Bloom identifies these three domains as key to educational learning.
What are cognitive (mental skills), affective (emotional skills), and psychomotor (physical skills)?
500
One of the cognitive levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. It involves the student being able to use information, methods, concepts, theories in new situations and to solve problems using required knowledge.
What is application?
500
This type of assessment judges the worth of a program at the end of activities. They tend to focus on outcomes and assess whether results met stated goals
What is summative assessment?
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