Instructional Strategies
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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When students select two words, write why they selected them and share out.
What is two-word strategy?
100
This is the model of teaching that we don't want.
What is the coverage model?
100
Planning with the end in mind.
What is backwards design?
100
"Expect your students to get there"
What is the title of Chapter 3?
100
We are doing this when examining each lesson and each learning task to see what parts might give students trouble.
What is anticipate confusion?
200
Students select important points and insert them on the appropriate box on a form given to them.
What is alphaboxes?
200
These are the knowledge and behaviors that students bring with them.
What is currency?
200
These are what students should learn by the end of the lesson.
What is a learning objective (or learning target)?
200
It is the confidence we have that something will happen.
What is an expectation?
200
Set one of these up before students start to fail.
What is an intervention plan?
300
This strategy gets students up and around in order to share and receive information about a particular topic.
What is give one, get one?
300
Reciprocal teaching, jigsaw, study groups, cooperative learning activities.
What is a way to create interdependence in your room?
300
This is how a student shows evidence of learning.
What is a demonstration of learning?
300
Our behaviors, more than our words reflect this.
What is our core values?
300
This strategy gives teachers a chance to see how students condense information in writing.
What is summary writing?
400
A What we think we know/what we know/what we want to learn chart (KWL chart)
What is a way to activate background knowledge?
400
The use of discussion that sharpens students' thinking by reinforcing their ability to use and create knowledge is called this.
What is accountable talk?
400
This is one of the greatest contributors to our ability to positively alter our own thinking and behavior.
What is reflection?
400
Index cards, dry-erase boards, signs are all examples of this.
What are response cards?
500
These are created during your mini-lessons to "document" or model certain concepts for regular review and reference.
What are anchor charts?
500
Step 1: Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term. Step 2: Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words. Step 3: Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representing the term or phrase. Step 4: Engage students periodically in activities that help them add to the knowledge of the terms in their notebooks. Step 5: Periodically ask students to discuss the terms with one another. Step 6: Involve students periodically in games that allow them to play with the terms.
What are the 6 steps to vocabulary instruction?
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" It is important for us to learn this because..."
What is the fourth step of the four step framework?
500
The external criteria against which a product is evaluated.
What is a standard?
500
Making lists, sketching, t-charts, timelines are all ways that students can do this when reading or listening to information.
What is note-taking?