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Potpourri
100

Every student's favorite question "why do I need to know this?" can be answered by this

What is an enduring understanding?


100

the teacher decides what is important for the students to know and specifically explains or demonstrates a skill, and the student attempts to replicate it

What is direct instruction?

100

Beginning a new lesson can bring an eager expectation for students and teachers alike, which is why utilizing this to transition between the old and new lessons and evaluating students understanding of the new topic can be effective.

What is an anticipatory set? 

100

Students showing increased skills at understanding in various styles including visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic represent these. 

What are learning modalities? 

100

A teacher who designs a lesson using various models, pictures, etc. will be attempting to reach a student with this learning modality. 

What is a visual learning modality?

200

Keeping your eyes on the prize, like a runner who dreams of the finish line before he steps off the starting line, is associated with this "foreword" thinking process. 

What is backward design?

200

Verbs verbs and verbs galore. This increasing hierarchy of cognition brings students from knowledge to evaluation. There's no stuffing of animals here...

What is Bloom's Taxonomy?

200

Nothing disingenuous about this assessment. Using this assessment will often involve taking "real world" practice into play rather than a pen and a paper examination. 

What is an authentic assessment? 

200

Educators find more successful environments for learning when all people groups are represented by incorporating this technique. 

What is Culturally Responsive Teaching? 

200

"Create your own_____" begins a question with this level of Bloom's expertise. 

What is synthesis? 

300

Getting more specific, this type of question isn't essential but certainly helps guide the course (at least for a few weeks)

What is a unit question? 

300

intended to enhance students’ ability to direct their own learning by showing the use of cognitive processes in the solving of some problem.

What is mental modeling?

300

Not all about grades, this assessment is more often "on the go" than and the end of the lesson. 

What is a formative assessment?

300

Its party time! This lesson planning model encourages a celebration at the conclusion of a lesson, to build excitement around learning and growth of students.

What is the constructivist (EEL DR C) model?

300

This multiple intelligence uses deductive reasoning, notices patterns, and is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking. 

What is logical-mathematical? 

400

It's easy as 1, 2, 3! These 3 words that make up this student objective model helps teachers evaluate a clear measurable goal

What is Audience, Behavior, Condition? 

400

The highest level of instructional taxonomy, this level would excel at writing Jeopardy questions, for instance. Utilizing this level involves channeling imagination and creative question asking.

What is inquiry? 

400

This combo of assessment types is one so often used, college students have an entire week dedicated to taking those finish line exams.

What is a traditional-summative assessment? 

400

Increasing classroom engagement can be accomplished via this type of instruction. Just be sure a safe and exciting classroom environment is present, or this could be a real dud.

What is classroom discussion? 

400

Ben Franklin suggests this level of Bloom's Taxonomy pays the best interest, even if it sits on the bottom of the totem poll of the Bloom's hierarchy. 

What is knowledge?