Chapter 1 The Learner and the Classroom Learning Community
Carol Dweck identified the term to describe the thought that intelligence can be developed and increased over time.
What is the “growth mindset”?
This type of curriculum is also referred to as intended, planned, explicit or official curriculum.
What is formal curriculum?
Target met during an activity or after a few class sessions.
What is a Short-term Target?
Two terms that refer to the breadth of content and skills students should learn and the order in which students will learn this content.
What is scope and sequence?
An assessment technique were the teacher provides students with a prompt or question from the lecture, then asks students to “think about the question, pair with a partner, and share your answers.”
What is think/pair/share?
Gardner theory suggested that there are different learning aptitudes.
What is multiple intelligence theory?
Also known as taught curriculum it can be thought of as the instructional process or methods used to communicate the formal curriculum.
What is delivered curriculum?
Target accomplished during a longer unit, a semester or even an entire course.
What is a Long-term target?
Questions about the big ideas or fundamental concepts that we want students to think about and learn during the span of a unit.
What are essential questions?
Instructional strategy that is teacher-centered and teacher-directed.
What is direct instruction?
Motivation to engage in an activity because of the satisfaction derived from the activity itself.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Some refer to this as the realized curriculum and is a representation of all that a student learns in school.
What is learned curriculum?
Students will know how they will be assessed in classrooms before a lesson or unit even begins.
What is backward design?
Many schools have adopted this model where teachers observe one another and help reflect on lessons.
What is a peer coaching model?
An instructional strategy where the teacher presents about a specified set of information to students.
What is a lecture?
An approach to instruction that includes the continued development of a students native language, the learning of a second language and the use of both languages to teach academic content.
What is bilingual education?
In 1983 the United States Department of Education’s National Commission on Excellence in Education published this report.
What is “ A Nation at Risk”?
Thinking Skills and academic content to be learned in the classroom.
What is cognitive domain?
Plans that integrate topics from more than one course around a common theme or idea.
What are interdisciplinary unit plans?
An assessment of the key points a student learned from the lecture. These are usually short and concise assessments at the end of the class.
What are Exit Cards?
Provides details about the educational supports and services that will help exceptional students with recognized disabilities receive appropriate instruction.
What is an IEP or Individualized Education Program?
This is an initiative that intends to provide a consistent clear understanding of what students are expected to learn across the country
What are the Common Core State Standards?
Learning that is tied to feelings or emotions.
What is affective domain?
This person developed the idea that all classrooms have four elements in common. These elements are: a teacher, students, content to be learned, and environment.
Who is Schwab?
The teacher directly/explicitly provides information or guides students in learning step-by-step skills. Instruction is controlled by the teacher and the students will look to the teacher for guidance about what to do during the class.
What is explicit teaching?