MAX Teaching
CH 3
CH 3
The “M” in MAX stands for this.
What is Motivation?
In this strategy teachers poses problems and individuals attempt to solve, then students compare notes with partners to resolve differences, and lastly partners compare notes with a larger group or the class.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
Thinking about one's own thinking.
What is metacognition?
In this learning method students work together in groups to help each other learn content and skills.
What is Cooperative learning?
Focusing reflective thinking on improving future actions.
What is Reflection-for-action?
This is the teacher's role in a MAX Teaching classroom.
What is facilitator or coach?
This strategy involves students pairing up and each student reads a portion of the text silently and then they discuss what they read.
What is Paired Reading?
The long standing thinking about learning, where learning occurs when the overt behavior changes.
What is Behaviorism?
A synonym of cooperation, this is an essential element of any cooperative learning strategy.
What is Positive interdependence?
A document used by a teacher that provides the structure, instructional strategies, and plan of action for each day.
What is a Lesson plan?
It's a way to help all students better learn their subject matter and improve their literacy skills.
What is MAX teaching?
In this strategy students read text and then ask questions to the teacher in order to receive points to win the game.
What is Stump the Teacher?
The thought that skill or knowledge or ability or intelligence can be developed and increased over time.
What is a Growth mindset?
Many of the cognitive and social benefits of cooperative learning occur during this type of interaction between students.
What is Face-to-Face Interactions?
Questions about the big idea or fundamental concepts that teachers want students to think about and learn during the span of a unit.
What are Essential Questions?
MAX Teaching aims to improve these kind of skills in students.
What are literacy skills?
In this strategy students create visual summaries of prose text.
What are Student-Generated Graphic Representations?
Students who come to school having learned a language other than English and are now emerging in their English understanding and knowledge.
What are Emerging multilingual learners?
This is when students are quickly formed into groups that may work together for a few minutes or the whole class period.
What is Informal cooperative Learning?
Four interrelated aspects of the classroom that affect teaching and learning. The teacher, the students, the subject matter, and the learning environment.
What are Schwab's four common places?
In this stage in MAX Teaching students are writing to gather information for further discussion.
What is the Acquisition Phase?
This strategy removes select words from a passage and asks students to use context and collaboration to fill them in.
What is the Interactive Cloze Procedure?
Considers the influence of the body's physical changes on the adolescent. This applies to learning and teaching because physical changes impact adolescent body size and shape, nutritional needs, mood swings, and the many other changes that are occurring in the body.
What is Biological and physical development?
This is a cooperative learning strategy where students are formed into two groups, a home group and a specific information group.
What is Jigsaw?
Overview and rationale, Goals and essential questions, Targets, Outline of content, Calendar, daily lesson plans, Assessments and evaluations, and materials and resources are the 8 components of.
What are the components of a Unit Plan?