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Instructional Strategies
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General COT
100
Using Instructional Strategies to Facilitate Learning: An effective teacher promotes student learning through the effective use of appropriate instructional strategies.
What is APS 5?
100
The teacher provides content in a logical sequence with examples applicable to many students.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 6C?
100
The teacher uses the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy levels, problem-based learning, case studies, role play, Web quests, graphic organizers, research projects, and multimedia presentations.
What are examples of higher order thinking strategies that challenge students to extend learning beyond the lesson?
100
Textbooks, district curriculum resources, state support documents, websites, and articles
What are multiple sources?
100
COT
What is the acronym for the Classroom Observation Tool?
200
The teacher uses varied strategies to convey content and a variety of formats, approaches, and may exchange roles with students.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 5B?
200
The teacher provides accurate and current content, demonstrating knowledge of subject matter through the explanation of conceptual relationships and/or procedural steps. Additionally, the teacher identifies and corrects students' errors.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 6A?
200
The process of ensuring that what a student learns, how he or she learns it, and how the student demonstrates what he or she has learned is a match for that student’s readiness level, interests, and preferred mode of learning.
What is differentiated instruction?
200
1. Lesson Set 2. Skill Development 3. Checking for Understanding 4. Guided Practice 5. Closure 6. Independent Practice
What are components of the Mastery Teaching Model?
200
15 minutes
What is the minimum amount of time spent conducting an observation using the COT?
300
The teacher uses instructional strategies that provide differentiated opportunities for success and meaningful learning for most students.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 5C?
300
The teacher provides content aligned with appropriate standards and students' needs. The teacher provides content from multiple perspectives.
What is APS 6B?
300
A general term for the explicit teaching of a skill-set using lectures or demonstrations of the material, rather than exploratory models such as inquiry-based learning. Usually it involves explication of the skill or subject matter to be taught and may or may not include an opportunity for student participation or individual practice.
What is direct instruction?
300
Creating, evaluating, and analyzing
What are examples of levels of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy?
300
Effective
What is the District's standard as it relates to the rating associated with the use of the COT?
400
The teacher uses strategies that are appropriate for the specific content and for specific students' levels. Strategies are based on prior learning and stage of learning. Many of the teacher's strategies promote higher order thinking and/or performance.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 5A?
400
Providing Content for Learners: An effective teacher possesses a thorough knowledge and understanding of the discipline so that he or she is able to provide the appropriate content for learners.
What is APS 6?
400
1) through content 2) process 3) product, and 4) learning environment based on the individual learner
What are the four ways teachers can differentiate?
400
IEP goals and state standards
What are the tools used to provide appropriate content?
400
COT Resource Document
What is the tool used to explain the various ratings associated with APSs 4-9?
500
The teacher's strategies provide opportunities for both independent and collaborative learning.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 5B?
500
The teacher provides content beyond factual information, promoting higher order thinking skills for a majority of students. Additionally, the teacher recognizes, identifies, and clarifies student content problems.
What is the EFFECTIVE rating for APS 6C?
500
An activity that provides students the opportunity to grasp and develop concepts or skills and requires teachers to monitor student progress. It is not simply assigning a worksheet, problems, or questions to be completed in class. It should be used... * following and as an additional check for understanding * prior to closure * to determine the level of mastery * to provide individual remediation
What is guided practice?
500
1) Recasts- repeat with correction 2) Confirmation Checks- request meaning clarification by supplying the correct answer 3) Explicit- overt explanation and correct 4) Repetition- repeat the error with emphasis 5) Clarification Questions- signal a lack of understanding 6) Metalinguistic Clues- overt explanation without the correction
What are ways to identify and correct student errors?
500
Highly Effective, Effective, Minimally Effective, and Ineffective
What are the ratings associated with COT?