General Instructional Strategies/Cultureal Considerations
Review
100
Desired long-term outcome of instruction.
What is Instructional Goal?
100
Approach to instruction that uses a variety of techniques (e.g., explanations, questions guided and independent practice) in a fairly structured manner to promote learning of basic skills.
What is direct instruction?
100
Approach to instruction in which students work with a small grou of peers to achieve a common goal and help one another learn.
What is cooperative learning?
100
Practice of individualizing instructional methods - and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional goals - to align with each student's exisiting knowledge, skillls, and needs.
What is differentiated instruction?
100
Action that can potentially cause bodily harm?
What is physical aggression?
200
Approach to instruction in which the teacher is largely in control of the content and course of the lesson.
What is teacher-directed instruction?
200
Introduction to a lesson that provides an overall organizational scheme for the lesson.
What is an advance organizer?
200
Knowledge and skills that help a learner find, use, evaluate, organize, and effectively present information about a particular topic.
What is information literacy?
200
Adult-child interaction marked by adult initiation (e.g., a question), child response, and adult evaluation.
What is IRE Cycle?
200
Act that can adversely affect interpersonal relationships.
What is Relational Aggression?
300
General statements regarding the knowledge and skills that students should gain and the characteristics that their accomplishments should reflect.
What are standards?
300
Situation or event (often unplanned) in which students might be especially predisposed to acquire particular knowledge or skills.
What is a teachable moment?
300
Collection of multimedia, computer-based instructional materials (e.g., text, pictures, sound, animations) that students can examine in a sequence of their own choosing.
What is hypermedia?
300
Dialect of some African American communities characterized by certain pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical constructions different from those of Standard English.
What is African American English?
300
Thinking about what other people may be thinking about oneself, possibly through multiple iterations.
What is Recursive Thinking?
400
Approach to instructional planning in which a teacher first determines the desired end result (what students should know and be able to do) and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies.
What is Backward Design?
400
Approach to instruction in which students learn one topic thoroughly before moving to a subsequent one.
What is Mastery Learning?
400
Approach to instruction in which one student provides instruction to help another student master a classroom topic.
What is peer tutoring?
400
Form of a language that has certain unique pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical structures and is characteristic of a particular region or ethnic group.
What is dialect?
400
Self-constructed understanding of one's own and other people's mental and psychological states (thoughts, feelings, etc.).
What is Theory of Mind?
500
Taxonomy of six cognitive processes, varying in complexity, that lessons might be designed to foster.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
500
Approach to instruction in which information is presented in essentially the same form in which students are expected to learn it.
What is expository instruction?
500
Activity that promotes learning and development through participation in a meaningful community service project.
What is service learning?
500
Form of English generally considered acceptable at school, as reflected in textbooks and grammar instruction.
What is standard english?
500
Student whom many peers like and perceive to be kind and trustworthy.