Lesson Plans
A student friendly description of what the student is expected to learn or accomplish in a given lesson.
What is a Learning Target?
Where a teacher explicitly shows the students how to complete an activity or assignment before the students begin.
What is Modeling?
Information provided to students that causes an improvement in learning as a result.
What is Effective Feedback?
Used to describe how teachers move through lesson plans, both on a daily basis and in the long-term.
What is pacing?
A question that is usually asked as a follow up question when a student gives an incorrect answer.
What is prompting question?
Describes what you want your students to learn and how they will demonstrate what they have learned.
What is behavioral learning objective?
Breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk.
What is Scaffolding?
Information on performance written in the affirmative.
What is Positive Feedback?
Any type of learning technique a teacher uses to help students learn or gain a better understanding of the course material.
What is Instructional Strategies?
The time that elapses from when the teacher asks the question to when she calls on a student to answer the question.
What is wait time?
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What is a standard?
Provides a stable foundation upon which learning is built.
What is Evidence Based Instruction?
Conveys specific information to the learner on performance.
What is Specific Feedback?
Tree or four activities of varying complexity for students to participate in.
What is tiered activities?
Questions that target analyzing, evaluating, and creating skills.
What is higher order questions?
A call for higher-order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, and prediction.
What is essential question?
Ensures organization and keeps both the lesson and scaffolding focused.
What is planning?
Directed to a part of the learners in the class.
What is Group Feedback?
Before students leave a learning environment, ask them to answer a question related to a key concept discussed in the lesson that day.
What is exit ticket?
Questions that have one correct or "best" answer.
What is convergent questions?
The amount of questions a student is expected to get correct.
What is quantitative?
Allows teachers to personalize learning for individual students and differing abilities.
What is assessments?
Value judgement on how well or poorly a task was performed.
What is Evaluative Feedback?
Level one: Recollection and reproduction
Level two: Knowledge application
Level three: Strategic thinking
Level four: Extended critical thinking
What is DOK levels?
Open-ended questions that have many appropriate answers.
What is divergent questions?