Curriculum and Standards

Teaching Strategies

Classroom Activities

Bloom's Taxonomy

Objectives and Lesson Planning

100
  •   a set of guidelines that outline what students should know and be able to do at specific grade levels.

What are standards? 

100

A teaching strategy where the teacher presents information to the students. 

What is lecture? 

100

A short activity at the beginning of class to engage students and prepare them for the lesson.

What is a bell ringer/warm-up? 

100

Acquiring and recalling information. 

What is Remembering? 

100

The part of speech used in writing objectives. 

What is a verb? 

200

This is outlines the overall goals, objectives, and content for a course.

What is curriculum? 

200

 A teaching strategy where students work together in groups to solve problems or complete tasks

What is collaborative learning? 

200

 The process of students practicing new skills independently.

What is independent practice? 

200

Understanding and making use of information. 

What is understanding? 

200

When writing objectives, this domain focuses on what students will be able to do and concerns their motor skills. 

What is the psychomotor domain?

300
  •  The process of aligning curriculum and instruction with specific learning objectives.

What is course planning? 

300

 A teaching strategy where students learn by solving real-world problems.

What is problem-based learning? 

300

Refers to the rate at which a teacher moves through the lesson. 

What is pacing? 

300

These are the three domains of Bloom's Taxonomy

What are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor? 

300

Also known as the "I do, we do and you do" of a lesson plan. 

What are introduction, guided practice and independent practice? 

400
  •  Standards written for grades K-12 begun and supported by several presidential administrations establishing standards across the nation to create consistency from state to state.   

 What are Common Core State Standards? 

400

A teaching strategy where students learn new material outside of class and then apply it in class. 

What is a flipped classroom? 

400

A brief period of silence between asking a question and calling on a student allowing all students to mentally process the question.

What is wait time? 

400

This level of Bloom's is: organizing information in a new and different way. 

What is create? 

400
These are the four characteristics of a well-written objective. 

What are observable behavior, action or product, conditions, and performance level? 

500
  • These are three of the five areas teachers should consider when organizing learning.

What are schedules, characteristics of students, instructional units, opportunities for learning and teacher characteristics?

500

A teaching strategy where students practice new skills with teacher guidance.

What is guided practice? 
500

Three of the six purposes of questioning listed in the textbook. 

What are generate interest, stimulate learning, check for comprehension, encourage participation, develop thinking skills, evaluate learning? 

500

These are the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy in order.

What are remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create? 

500

The difference between formative and summative assessments. 

What is formative is done during the instruction and summative is done at the end if a unit or course?