Chapter 1
It determines how well teachers know the subject and how well they can help students learn it.
What is teacher skill?
Novice, apprentice, practitioner, and master teacher.
What are the four skill levels of teaching practice?
Show teachers where they stand and can spur them toward improved performance.
What is an evaluation?
Drives teachers to improve their craft and embrace new initiatives or strategies.
What is teacher will?
Limiting beliefs, assumptions, fear, judgments, and obstacles.
What are the five reasons for resistance?
Knowing how to structure the classroom so that students can focus on learning.
What is classroom management?
They convey high expectations for students and help students reach rigorous learning targets.
What is a master teacher?
Teachers at different stages of skill development need different types of support in order to move them to the next stage.
What is differentiated practice?
Does only what is necessary.
What is a low-will teacher?
When teachers don't want to step outside of an established comfort zone.
What is fear?
What is teacher will?
They align their assessments to learning goals most of the time, but don't always provide students with growth-oriented feedback.
What is a practitioner teacher?
Design practice activities that help teachers stretch beyond their current abilities.
What is developmental practice?
Constantly seeks ways to learn, grow, and improve.
What is a high-will teacher?
Feed resistance by keeping teachers from trying new things.
What are assumptions?
Allows us to identify teacher profiles, or "types."
What is the Will/Skill Matrix?
They have a limited range of instructional approaches, and not all are appropriate for their discipline, grade level, or students.
What is an apprentice teacher?
Identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, then help teachers concentrate on those areas.
What is deliberate practice?
Autonomy, mastery, purpose, and belonging.
What are primary will drivers?
"This new teacher evaluation system is forcing me to teach to the test in order to get a good evaluation."
What are obstacles?
Takes ownership of student progress, shows enthusiasm for new ideas, and enjoys students.
What is an indicator of High Will?
They have lesson plans that lack coherence and rarely use formative assessment.
What is a novice teacher?
Evaluation, elaboration, observation, practice, feedback, coaching, collaboration, and reflection.
What are the principles of effective instruction?
"I will never get these kids to pass the test by March."
What are limiting beliefs?