What Students Learn (And You Teach)
A document used by a teacher that provides the structure, instructional strategies, and plan of action for each day.
What is a Lesson Plan?
Lesson-sized observable and measurable statements of students' learning.
What is Daily Learning Targets?
A long-established approach for thinking about learning, where learning occurs when the overt behavior changes.
What is Behaviorism?
The big ideas or fundamental concepts that we want students to think about and learn during the span of a unit.
What is essential questions?
An instructional strategy when the teacher presents about a specified set of information to students.
What is a Lecture?
There are two subjects that the Common Core State Standards are intended for.
What is English/Language Arts and Mathematics?
The degree to which an assessment tool is difficult or easy to adminster.
What is Usability?
An individual’s sense of their own gender
What is Gender Identity?
Are concise statements that you want students to achieve during the study of your unit.
What are targets?
Short and concise assessments (1 to 5 minutes of writing) given to students after a lecture.
What are exit cards?
Curriculum that teachers purposefully intend for students to learn.
What is Formal Curriculum?
Two domains that should be considered by teachers when writing learning targets.
What are Cognitive and affective domains?
University of North Carolina's acronym that promotes equity in their classrooms.
What is READY?
Provides the teacher with a “unit-at-a-glance” regarding content, instructional strategies, and classroom activities.
What is a Calendar?
A discussion or cooperative learning activity in which students are asked to think about a topic, tell a partner about their reflections, and share ideas with the entire class.
What is think-pair-share?
Curriculum that a student learns in school.
Four elements needed when writing a lesson plan.
What are Audience, behavior, condition and degree?
Teaching that places high value on the relationship the teacher has with each student.
What is relational teaching?
“Reflection on practice and one’s actions after the practice is completed”
What is Reflection-on-action?
The teacher directly/explicitly provides information or guides students in learning step-by-step skills.
What is Direct Instruction?
Content that students did not learn.
What is Null Curriculum?
What is the Mastery of the Learning Target?
What are extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation?
Another form of reflection that teachers use is often defined as a structured approach to examine and learn from one’s experience.
What is Action Research?
This method helps students record facts and ideas that they learned from during and after a lecture.
What is journaling?