Chapter 1
Many conflicts and problems can be avoided if teachers try to build appropriate relationships with their students.
What is relational teaching?
These are the abilities and tasks needed for a course.
What are skills?
This is the attempt to determine the total, or summation, of student learning.
What is summative assessment?
This is the most well known reflection.
What is reflection-on-action?
This should be activated to make lectures more meaningful for multilingual learners.
What is prior schemata?
This will help a teacher manage the learning environment.
What are classroom rules and routines?
This refers to the content of a course.
What is knowledge?
This assessment provides information on how students are forming their understanding.
What is formative assessment?
This is where teachers observe one another and help reflect on lessons.
What is the peer coaching model?
These should be used to clarify what is being talked about during a lecture.
What are visuals?
This is implemented when preparing to help students learn.
What are instructional strategies?
These are the attitudes or mindsets that students need to learn.
What are dispositions?
This occurs prior to instruction, and attempts to determine student strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills.
What is diagnostic assessment?
This is a structured approach to examine and learn from one's experience.
What is action research?
This is a type of presentation/lecture that can engage listeners in a unique manner, captivate their attention, and help information come alive.
What is storytelling?
This is what teachers will often refer to their classroom as when the students are committed to making the classroom environment a safe place where knowledge, skills, and dispositions are developed.
What is a community of learners?
These cannot be thought of without a brief examination of three forms of course content: knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
What are standards?
This allows for people to be ranked, or put in an order based on their scores.
What is norm-referenced assessment?
This monitors student work and progress during the class meeting.
What is reflection-in-action?
This should be provided to help students take notes and categorize what they are hearing during a lecture.
What is a graphic organizer?
This is one of the greatest worries of many student teachers.
What are discipline problems?
They may direct the content in a classroom, but they have no legal authority to determine curriculum.
What are national organizations?
This is used for assessment against fixed criteria.
What is criterion-referenced assessment?
This list provides a quick overview of what is needed for the day.
What are materials and resources?
This needs to happen every 10 minutes during a lecture and need to be created prior to starting the lecture.
What are questions?