Invitations to Learn
Learning and Teaching Today
What is good teaching?
The role of educational psychology
Theories
100
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Who is the Author of "Invitations to Learn"?
100
Description of the nature of the contemporary student population.
What is diverse?
100
The best response to whether great teaching is a science or an art.
What is both?
100
Educational Psychology
What is a the discpline concerned with teaching and learning?
100
Educational principles
What have become established relationships and beliefs in education over time?
200
The number of needs teacher can address to make learning irresistible.
What is 5?
200
The federal act that requires all student in grades three through eight are tested using standardized instruments.
What is No Child Left Behind?
200
If the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?", the experienced teacher asks . . .
What is "How are the children doing?"
200
Common Sense Answers
What initially appears to be the answer to many of our educational questions that often times is not right?
200
Educational Theories
What educational psychologist use to explain different types of events or make predictions of what my happen?
300
Five needs teacher can meet to invite learning.
What is affirmation, contribution, purpose, power, and challenge?
300
One central critique of the testing culture created by NCLB.
What is teaching to the test?
300
A teacher who is a thesbian and scholar, who directs class from the front of the room.
What is "a sage on the stage"?
300
Answers based on research
What educational psychologist seek to better understand the critical elements of learning and development?
300
Action Research
What is a method by which teachers can engage helping make meaningful decisions about best practices?
400
The need met by engaging students in hard work that stretches them.
What is challenge?
400
The dynamic between the teacher and the learner with ample evidence of a positive impact on student growth over time.
What is relationship?
400
A teacher who takes on a coaching mentality as they walk with learners through the educational journey.
What is "a guide on the side"?
400
Correlational Studies
What are studies that look for the relationships among different variables?
400
Longitudinal Studies
What are studies conducted over a long period of time?
500
The value at the core of issuing invitations to learn. Also, the Aretha Franklin song that tells you what she needs from you . . .
What is R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
500
Lower achieving students benefit most from these teachers.
who are highly effective teachers?
500
Beware of these answers that have characterized debates about teaching for years.
What is either/or choices?
500
Case Studies
What is an intensive study of one person or situation?
500
Dr. Sorvaag
Really now, thank you for all those wonderful comments!
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