Effective Instruction
Monitoring/Assessing
Lesson Study
GVC & the PLC
GVC & Objectives
100
Effective instruction is the first big idea of this.
What is the PLC?
100
Research shows conclusively that THIS does improve learning.
What is formative assessment?
100
This term involves the introduction of knowledge in such a way that one chunk is linked to the next.
What is scaffolding?
100
This word assures us that specific content is taught in specific courses and at specific grade levels regardless of the teacher to whom a student is assigned.
What is guaranteed?
100
This word defines content identified as essential for all students to learn.
What is objective?
200
This is the ultimate criterion for successful teaching.
What is student knowledge gain?
200
This provides focused data used by team members to optimize their instructional effectiveness.
What is common assessment?
200
The final step in the sequence for presenting new content is to ask the students to do this.
What is reflect on their own learning?
200
The first question the PLC must address regarding a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
What is "Do we have a common understanding of the curriculum and a commitment to teach it?"
200
Popham recommends that PLC teams consider starting with ________ number of objectives.
What is few/two or three?
300
Each level of knowledge requires this.
What is a different type of instruction?
300
In this type of alternative assessment, teachers meet with a student and asks him/her to explain specific information or demonstrate a specific skill or process while the teacher asks the student questions.
What are probing questions?
300
The penultimate step in the instructional sequence should have students represent/synthesize the content they have processed in one of these two ways.
What is linguistic and non-linguistic representation?
300
The second question the PLC must address regarding a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
What is "How will we know if the students are learning?"
300
This term refers to how much or how little information and skill is included in the statement of the objective.
What is grain size?
400
Lesson plans developed by cooperative teams should never be thought of as scripts but rather as __________ that teachers might divert from when it is evident that strategies are not working.
What are blueprints?
400
This type of alternative assessment is probably the most powerful and revoluationary form of assessment.
What is student-generated assessment?
400
This term refers to organizing the content into small digestible bites?
What is chunking?
400
This word indicates that there is enough instructional time available to actually teach the content identified as important.
What is viable?
400
In general, classroom content fits into one of three general types of knowledge.
What are information, mental procedure, and psychomotor procedures?
500
_________ are one tool that teams can use to examine the impact of instructional practices developed through the lesson study process.
What are instructional rounds?
500
In assessing student learning it is critical to use assessments that are ______ in order to provide students with accurate feedback regarding their progress.
What is multidimensional?
500
This phase is the ultimate goal of mental procedures as it means the learner has developed a procedure to the level at which he/she can execute it with little conscious thought.
What is the autonomous phase?
500
In order to know if the students are learning and to respond appropriately to their needs, educators must create this.
What is results orientation?
500
An effective proficiency scale/rubric, would contain these three levels.
What are target objective, simpler content, and more complex content?