Curriculum
Planning
Assessment
Instruction
Differentiation
100
The "what" of teaching.
What is curriculum?
100
serves as a framework for unit planning
What is long-range planning?
100
the information it provides as we make instructional decisions
What is the most important part of assessment?
100
identifying similarities and differences, summarizing and note-taking, reinforcing effort and providing recognition, homework and practice, nonlinguistic representations, cooperative learning, setting objectives and providing feedback, generating and testing hypothesis, and cues, questions, and advance organizers
What are the 9 categories of instruction?
100
a process through which teachers enhance learning by matching student characteristics to instruction and assessment.
What is differentiation?
200
Deep understandings about themselves, content, and the real world.
What is relevant curriculum?
200
provides a framework for both weekly and daily planning
What is unit planning?
200
diagnostic, formative, and summative
What are the categories of assessment?
200
helps us remember and saves us time
What is note-taking?
200
allows all students to access the same classroom curriculum by providing entry points, learning tasks, and outcomes that are tailored to the students' needs.
What is differentiation?
300
addresses various ability levels
What is challenging curriculum?
300
student information, content information, sequence, materials, assessment, units of study, records, management, and communication
What are things to include in a long-range plan?
300
about our students and increases our ability to develop a classroom perspective more closely matched to reality
What does diagnostic assessment inform us?
300
clarifying and consolidating material already learned and then repeating the information or skill
What is drill and practice?
300
All kids are different. One size does not fit all. Provides all students with access to all curriculum.
Why differentiate?
400
helps students make sense of the world
What is integrative curriculum?
400
comprehensive guides for facilitating learning involving students profiles, content and sequencing, classroom management philosophy, instructional strategies, and overall organizational factors.
What is long-range planning?
400
to monitor learning during instruction and take advantage of multiple opportunities to give feedback
What is the purpose of formative assessment?
400
helps us think critically as we visualize knowledge and comprehend relationships in organized ways
What is a graphic organizer?
400
sometimes called activities-when students stop taking in information and begin to work actively with it
What is process?
500
time allowed for deeper exploration, quality of understandings and connections
What is exploratory curriculum?
500
subject-area organizations state standards district curriculum guides text/major resources student profiles
What is long-range planning guided by?
500
occurs at the end of a unit of study and is designed to make judgements about the quality of a process or product
What is summative assessment?
500
when students act out or dramatize a situation or idea in a class setting
What is role-play?
500
allow students to demonstrate their learning in various ways
What is product?
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