Standards for Teaching
What are the 3 test most teachers are required to take to teach?
Praxis Core, Praxis II, and PLT
What are gifted and talented learners?
Students with above-average abilities who need special instructional consideration.
What is a reason for course planning?
to become familiar with the content to be taught and determine the sequence in which the content will be taught.
What is cognitive domain?
The development of intellectual abilities and skills.
What is an instructional strategy?
What year was the InTASC standards revised?
2011
What is a struggling learner?
A student who cannot learn at an average rate from the instructional resources, texts, workbooks, and materials.
What is a course?
A complete sequence of instruction that includes a major division of the subject matter.
What is Affective Domain?
The development of attitudes, beliefs, and values.
Explain direct instruction
Teachers tell the students the concept or skill to be learned and then lead students through most of the instructional activities designed to bring about student learning.
What are the four categories of Framework for teaching?
Planning, classroom environment, instructional strategies, and professional responsibility
What are students who live in poverty at risk for?
Factoring into an achievement gap.
What is backward mapping?
It is a planning tool that prompts you to begin by asking the following questions: What intended learning outcome or goals do you have for your students? How will you students demonstrate their learning?
What is psychomotor domain?
The coordination of physical movements and performance.
Explain deductive strategies
It involves deductive reasonings in which the teacher starts with a known principle or concept followed by examples of the concept.
What are InTASC Teaching Standards?
InTasc teaching standards outline what teachers should know and be able to do to ensure every K-12 student reaches the goal of being ready to enter college or the workforce.
What does the acronym SES stand for?
Socioeconomic status
Name some ways a syllabus severs it purpose.
Say the correct order of high-order thinking, bottom to top.
Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, then Create.
What are some types of questioning?
Convergent, divergent, focusing, prompting, and probing.
What is the purpose of the PLT?
It tests general pedagogical knowledge concerning students as learners. Many states require teachers to take this test before receiving their license.
What are some general strategies to help students at risk?
identifying students at risk as early as possible, creating a safe school environment, communicate high expectations, provide extra academic support
What is Aims?
It refers to the broad statement about the intent of education.
Describe taxonomy.
A system that classifies items and shows relationships among them, a use fool tool for making decisions about instructional objectives and for assessing learner outcomes.
What are the four key components of direct instruction.
Clear determination and articulation of goals, Teacher-directed instruction, careful monitoring of student's outcomes, consistent use of effective classroom organization and management methods.