Differentiated Instruction
Technology for Teaching
Just For Fun
Bloom
Teaching-Learning Critical Pathway
100
In order to provide differentiated instruction to learners, a teacher must start with this.
What is assessment or data collection?
100
The Internet used to be linear. Now it demands of learners that they be able to create and share. This is the term we use to describe applications for creating and sharing on the world wide web.
What is Web 2.0?
100
The one thing you should not put on Mrs. Kehoe's plate.
What is meat?
100
The division into ordered groups or categories, including categories identified by Benjamin Bloom, is referred to as this.
What is a taxonomy?
100
The acronym PLC stands for this component of the teaching learning critical pathway, and something essential for its success.
What is a Professional Learning Community?
200
Howard Gardner, who proposed this theory, states that learners have different strengths and affinities and that instructors should accommodate and strengthen strengths when planning for instruction.
What is Multiple Intelligence Theory?
200
The Peel District School Board offers access to this software suite, affording teachers and new opportunities for differentiating instruction.
What is Premier software?
200
These form the most favourite part of Carolyn's wardrobe.
What are shoes?
200
According to Bloom, this is the lowest level of learning in the cognitive domain.
What is knowledge?
200
The basic idea of the teaching learning critical pathway is that classroom practice can be organized in a practical, precise and highly personalized manner for each student, with the intended outcome being an increase in this for all students.
What is achievement?
300
In order to differentiate instruction, a teacher must be able to call upon and employ a wide variety of these?
What are Instructional Strategies?
300
To use technology effectively, not every student needs a computer, but it is helpful to have a computer connected to one of these in your classroom.
What is a data projector?
300
One of Jim's prized possessions.
What is his boat?
300
In the second level of Bloom's taxonomy for the cognitive domain of learning, learners understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems and can state a problem in one's own words. This is otherwise known as ...
What is comprehension?
300
Just as in planning for differentiated instruction, the very first step in the teaching-learning critical pathway (TLCP) is this.
What is assessment or gathering evidence?
400
In order to engage learners effectively, they must be able to identify a ___________ for what they are doing.
What is a purpose?
400
This is the name of the software that Peel uses which allows teachers to create their own classroom web page and is effectively used in a variety of ways by elementary teachers across Peel.
What is Sharepoint?
400
The number of boys that Christine and Ann are parents to (combined).
What are four?
400
These are the two most complex learning demands in the cognitive domain, according to Bloom.
What are synthesis and evaluation?
400
Rich culminating tasks in the teaching-learning critical pathway, should always require this kind of thinking from the learner.
What is higher order or critical thinking?
500
Rather than focussing on the "what" of a particular subject, differentiated instruction seeks to focus on the " _______" and the " ________" of that subject.
What is the how and the why?
500
Some teachers in Peel are using the Internet to engage their students in dialogue with one another in their Literacy Instruction. For example, students are dialoguing over the Internet about their favourite Forest Of Reading books. Give one name for this interactive tool being used.
What is a blog, a wiki or a podcast?
500
The month Chris was married in.
What is October?
500
Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues studied three areas for learning, and devised taxonomies for two of them: cognitive learning and affective learning. They did not develop a taxonomy for this type of learning.
What is psychomotor?
500
Embedded professional learning changes the school culture by holding everyone accountable for this.
What is continuous improvement?
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