Thinking Skills
Lesson Design
Motivation
Cooperative Learning
Effective Strategies
100
Thinking about how one learns.
What is metacognition?
100
The most critical piece of lesson planning that occurs prior to planning and teaching.
What is pre-assessment?
100
Derived from interacting with others as well as one's self-determination. To do something for its own sake - an end to itself.
What is intrinsic motivation?
100
Grouping students to increase motivation, self-actualization, and learning across the curriculum.
What is cooperative learning?
100
Helps students assess prior knowledge as well as provide a desire to learn more.
What is the KWL?
200
This skill encourages students to generate ideas and think outside the box. It increases engagement and higher level thinking skills.
What is brainstorming?
200
This teaching model is an application of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development. It empowers the learners to own their learning.
What is Gradual Release of Responsibility.
200
Confidence, choices, content, challenge, command, collaboration, conversation, constructivism, creation, and celebration.
What is are the ten C's to build intrinsic motivation?
200
Includes an active thinking and sharing process that increases engagement and learning.
What is Think-Pair-Share
200
An effective achievement strategy to use before and after teaching the lesson.
What are student self-evaluation (learning) goal sheets?
300
Analyze, evaluate, and problem-solve.
What are the essential skills of Critical Thinking?
300
Referencing the learning outcome before, during, and at the end of the lesson.
What is a strategy that keeps both the students and teacher standard and objective focused.
300
He claimed in 1970 that intrinsic motivation is superior to extrinsic motivation.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
300
For example, assign partners prior to the activity, switch partners throughout the activity, randomly call on student pairs to share.
What are strategies that can optimize the Think-Pair-Share process?
300
Lecture
What is the least effective teaching strategy for students to retain information?
400
Ways to increase student engagement and provide immediate feedback to responses, thoughts or ideas.
What are interactive apps., yes / no cards, digit cards, cooperative learning groups.
400
When functions are matched to the specific learning needs of individuals.
When is differentiation most effective?
400
This form of motivation is based upon the theory that students' academic performance is related to their feelings about themselves and their environment.
What is Cognitive Approach to Motivation?
400
Use a variety of criteria for grouping students.
What is the best way to maximize cooperative learning groups?
400
Students assume a role and write from that perspective to a more authentic audience.
What is RAFT? Roll-Audience-Format-Topic
500
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only teach them to think." Socrates
What is the rationale for Inquiry Based Learning?
500
Increasing digital resources for DOK extension and research.
How can instruction infuse technology with learning goals?
500
High-level choices, high interest, cognitive engagement i.e. multiple levels of thinking, resources and manipulatives, collaborative project work and self-responsibility.
What are research base methods that enhance intrinsic motivation?
500
Positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, individual and group accountability, interpersonal group skills, group processing (self-evaluation and reflection).
What are the five elements of cooperative learning?
500
Students generate questions based on a standard or essential question, and then discover the answer through their own research.
What is problem-based learning?
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