Cooperative Learning
Learning by which small groups of students learn the same subject matter by working together to solve a problem.
What is cooperative learning?
This is the range of topics that are to be covered and the order in which they are to be taught during the school year.
What is scope and sequence?
The acronym MAX stands for these 3 steps of its framework.
What is Motivation, Acquisition, and eXtension?
This instructional strategy has the teacher present a specified set of information to students.
What is a lecture?
Teachers are pleased to find out their students have the "HOTS" for them, but they are referring to this type of skill and not to a physical attraction.
What is Higher Order of Thinking Skills?
Students are more prone to participate by entering the group discussion with a sense of this.
What is commitment?
According to curriculum theorist Joseph Schwab's four commonplaces, these are the elements that all classrooms must have for optimal learning.
What are students, a teacher, subject matter, and environment?
This phase of MAX is meant to reduce anxiety over possible failure.
What is motivation?
This is another name for direct instruction where the teacher directly provides information or guides students in learning step-by-step skills.
What is explicit instruction?
This formative assessment technique allows students to ponder a question, partner up, and discuss the answer.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
The role the teacher plays in the final step of cooperative learning.
What is a mediator or arbitrator?
This comprehensive framework provides the learning objectives and lesson plans for a specific period of time.
What is the Unit Plan?
Students use individual manipulation of concepts and vocabulary in this phase of MAX Teaching.
What is acquisition?
In the Larson text, chapter 5 examines 5 key steps for lecturing. This step discusses planning the topic outline.
What is step 1?
This is a quick, formative assessment used at the end of a lesson to check student understanding of a lesson.
What is an exit card or exit ticket?
The idea that there is a tendency of students who begin with advantages to acquire more advantages and those who begin with disadvantages fall further behind, widening the gap over time
What is the "Matthew Effect?"
The number of components a lesson plan should contain to ensure structure to a class session.
What is nine?
This phase of MAX Teaching allows for low-threat immediate feedback.
What is eXtension?
Academic Content Targets is one of the categories learning targets for a lecture fit into. The other category is this.
What is Skill Targets?
This type of presentation incites the imagination and provides narratives and descriptions that help information come alive.
What is storytelling?
The second stage of cooperative learning when students help each other construct meaning from the text.
What is consensus?
An approach teachers use to reflect, examine, and improve their teaching methods.
What is action research?
This phase of MAX happens during the reading part of the lesson.
What is acquisition?
In step 4, effective teachers use an introduction or "this" to focus students on and help them engage with the content.
What is a hook?
It's a popular system of notetaking developed by Walter Pauk where note paper is divided into two parts- a narrow side on the left for asking questions, adding vocabulary words, or new insights, and a wider side on the right for recording notes.
What is "Cornell Notes?"