Curriculum
Every student's favorite question "why do I need to know this?" can be answered by this
What is an enduring understanding?
the teacher decides what is important for the students to know and specifically explains or demonstrates a skill, and the student attempts to replicate it
What is direct instruction?
Beginning a new lesson can bring an eager expectation for students and teachers alike, which is why utilizing this to transition between the old and new lessons and evaluating students understanding of the new topic can be effective.
What is an anticipatory set?
Students showing increased skills at understanding in various styles including visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic represent these.
What are learning modalities?
A teacher who designs a lesson using various models, pictures, etc. will be attempting to reach a student with this learning modality.
What is a visual learning modality?
Keeping your eyes on the prize, like a runner who dreams of the finish line before he steps off the starting line, is associated with this "foreword" thinking process.
What is backward design?
Verbs verbs and verbs galore. This increasing hierarchy of cognition brings students from knowledge to evaluation. There's no stuffing of animals here...
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
Nothing disingenuous about this assessment. Using this assessment will often involve taking "real world" practice into play rather than a pen and a paper examination.
What is an authentic assessment?
Educators find more successful environments for learning when all people groups are represented by incorporating this technique.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?
"Create your own_____" begins a question with this level of Bloom's expertise.
What is synthesis?
Getting more specific, this type of question isn't essential but certainly helps guide the course (at least for a few weeks)
What is a unit question?
intended to enhance students’ ability to direct their own learning by showing the use of cognitive processes in the solving of some problem.
What is mental modeling?
Not all about grades, this assessment is more often "on the go" than and the end of the lesson.
What is a formative assessment?
Its party time! This lesson planning model encourages a celebration at the conclusion of a lesson, to build excitement around learning and growth of students.
What is the constructivist (EEL DR C) model?
This multiple intelligence uses deductive reasoning, notices patterns, and is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking.
What is logical-mathematical?
It's easy as 1, 2, 3! These 3 words that make up this student objective model helps teachers evaluate a clear measurable goal
What is Audience, Behavior, Condition?
The highest level of instructional taxonomy, this level would excel at writing Jeopardy questions, for instance. Utilizing this level involves channeling imagination and creative question asking.
What is inquiry?
This combo of assessment types is one so often used, college students have an entire week dedicated to taking those finish line exams.
What is a traditional-summative assessment?
Increasing classroom engagement can be accomplished via this type of instruction. Just be sure a safe and exciting classroom environment is present, or this could be a real dud.
What is classroom discussion?
Ben Franklin suggests this level of Bloom's Taxonomy pays the best interest, even if it sits on the bottom of the totem poll of the Bloom's hierarchy.
What is knowledge?