The zone of proximal development which is the difference between what a child can accomplish alone and what they can accomplish with assistance.
What is ZPD?
100
The process of purposefully monitoring our thinking.
What is metacognition?
100
A taxonomy of educational objectives that includes 6 levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, Synthesis and evaluation
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
100
Using multi-media such as PhotoStory, MovieMaker or iMovie to write, narrate and illustrate a story
What is digital storytelling?
100
Providing substantial amounts of support when teaching a new concept and gradually decreasing the amount
What is scaffolding instruction?
200
Teacher supports for students that are gradually withdrawn as students demonstrate they have mastery.
What is scaffolding?
200
These strategies help students organize the information they are expected to learn by previewing text, taking notes or completing a graphic organizer.
What are cognitive strategies?
200
A more complex model of thinking that has only four levels(recall, skill/concept, strategic thinking, and extended thinking) but is more related to curriculum and activities.
What is Webb's Depths of Knowledge?
200
When a teacher is reading and stops periodically to contemplate predictions, ask questions and think aloud for students
What is a directed reading and thinking activity?
200
An instructional strategy designed to teach academic language skills.It also suggests making color-code strategy posters. Blue represents calmness. Green represents growth. Orange represents warmth.
What is CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach)?
300
The "I do, you do, we do" method
What is gradual release?
300
This is a strategy that helps students get the main idea of a passage by having them underline ten or more of the most important words or phrases then using those words to write a summary.
What is GIST?
300
This is the DOK level that requires students to recall a fact, information or procedure(such as identify, list, label, illustrate)
What is Level 1: Recall?
300
A strategy for teaching content using the following steps:
1. Survey
2. Question
3. Predict
4. Read
5. Respond
6. Summarize
What is SQP2RS?
300
Learning strategies help students transfer new tasks and can be learned. Active learners are better learners.
Why are learning strategies important?
400
Using prompting, questioning and elaboration to verbally promote confidence geared to student's language competence.
What is verbal scaffolding?
400
These are strategies aimed to increase student progress in speaking and comprehending their new language such applying basic reading skills, paraphrasing, using verbal and nonverbal cues.
What are language learning strategies?
400
The Level of DOK that requires extended thinking such as designing, synthesizing, analyzing, creating, proving and applying concepts.
What is Level 4: Extended Thinking?
400
Examples would be venn diagrams, timelines, flow charts, semantic maps
What are graphic organizers?
400
A summarization strategy that assists students in getting the 'gist' from larger texts by underlining keywords and using them to write a summary.
What is the GIST strategy?
500
Instructional approaches use small groups or create a framework that includes modeling and explicit teaching.
What is procedural scaffolding?
500
Strategies that get students using their language skills through interactions with their peers such as seeking out conversation partners, taking risks with the new language and practicing English alone.
What are social-affective strategies?
500
Plan ahead for higher-order questions and tasks
What is the most important factor when designing lessons?
500
A type of teaching that incorporates four metacognitive strategies to improve comprehension: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing
What is reciprocal teaching?
500
Because it is too difficult to think of higher order questions on your feet