Definitions
The ability to use digital technology, communication tools, or networks to locate, evaluate, use, and create information.
What is Digital Literacy?
What two concepts do teachers consider when building their curriculum?
What is content and Process?
Effective teachers act on the understanding that education has the power to transform individual and society.
What is the Principle of Praxis?
This involves students interacting with one another around a variety of texts.
What is Text-based collaborative learning?
- Increase collaboration between teachers in a subject area, grade level, district, and across state lines.
- Increase teacher readiness to teach content regardless of content assignment.
- Standard text and resources focused on the most relevant concepts that relate most directly to student learning.
What are the benefits of a standardized literary curriculum?
Provides a framework for learning that allows readers to seek and select information that is relevant to their purposes for reading. (Building block of cognition)
What is Schemata?
an intellectually challenging instructional environment that engages students, not only in the acquisition of content but also in the think processes by which they learn that content.
What are key factors that contribute to an effective lesson plan?
Effective teachers operate at the moment guided by a clear understanding of why they are doing what they are doing.
Principle of Purpose
What is Strategic tutoring?
This requires students to comprehend, evaluate, articulate, and form an argument based on evidence in the text.
Why do we place emphasis on text and text based answers?
The ability to use reading, writing, talking, listening, and viewing to learn subject matter in a given discipline.
What is Content Literacy?
Students’ achievement gaps are narrow, but students approach literacy/ learning tasks with purpose and enthusiasm.
Content knowledge preparation.
Pedagogical Knowledge.
What makes an effective teacher?
Although effective teachers engage in a variety of instructional practices, they "expect the unexpected" and are open to learning opportunities that may occur withing the context of instruction.
Principle of Serendipity:
Instruction in the strategies and processes that proficient readers use to understand what they read, including summarizing, keeping track of one's own understanding, and a host of other practices.
What is Explicit Comprehension Instruction?
What is the successful implementation of standards-based instruction?
A teacher who prepares in advance for a variety of student needs in order to maximize student learning.
What is Responsive teaching?
Strong General intelligence and verbal ability that helps teachers organize and explain ideas as well as observe and think diagnostically.
Strong content knowledge
Knowledge of how to teach others; how to use hands-on learning techniques and how to develop higher-order thinking skills
How to assess and foster learning, support students who have learning issues/differences
Adaptive expertise
What is Teacher Quality
Effective teachers plan instruction but are flexible in the implementation of lessons. They adapt to unanticipated events or responses in ways that make learning possible.
What is the Principle of Flexibility?
Building motivation to read and learn and providing students with the instruction and supports needed for independent learning learning tasks they will face after graduation.
To be able to comprehend, dissect, and contribute additional meanings instantly.
What does it mean to be literate in today's world?
- Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language.
- Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational.
-Building knowledge through content-rich non-fiction.
Common Core State Standards Tenets
Content of instruction
Enables a teacher to meet the demands of discipline and provide strong instruction that allows a wide range of students to learn.
Teaching quality/strong instruction from the perspective of what it means to be a practicing teacher.
What is Teaching Quality?
Effective teachers care about the learners in their classroom, the disciplinary content they teach, and the literacy processes they use to make a difference in students' lives. Caring is necessary to build relationships essential to the teaching/ learning transaction.
What is Principle of Caring?
This includes instruction connected to the kinds of writing tasks students will have to perform well in high school and beyond.
What is Intensive writing?
Prior knowledge of, attitude toward, and interest in subject.
Purpose for engaging and reading, writing, and discussion.
Difficulty of text material
Assumptions writers make about their audience
Text structures used to organize ideas and information
Teachers beliefs about an attitude towards the use of text.
What is a variety of classroom-related factors influencing reading to learn a given discipline?