Teaching Strategies
The practice of adjusting the curriculum, teaching strategies, and classroom environment to meet the needs of all students
What is differentiation?
A description of the important understandings and core concepts that you want students to develop within the learning segment
What is the central focus?
The temporary invalidation of any certificate for a period of time specified by the Professional Standards Commission
What is "Suspension"?
Assessment for learning
What is formative assessment?
Intentional inclusion of and alignment between all necessary attributes or components of a rigorous curriculum
What is rigor?
The process by which teachers and schools create and maintain appropriate behavior of students in classroom settings
What is classroom management?
The verb used to describe what is to be learned
What is language function?
An educator shall always maintain a professional relationship with all students, both in and outside the classroom
What is Standard 2: Conduct with Students?
Assessment as learning
What is performance assessment?
Analyzing and deconstructing grade-level and course-specific standards for a unit of study to determine exactly what students need to know and be able to do
What is "unwrapping" the standards?
Traditional seating charts are replaced with seating arrangements that allow the students to sit where they choose
What is flexible seating?
What is vocabulary?
Admonishes the certificate holder for his or her conduct
What is "Reprimand"?
Assessment of learning
What is summative assessment?
A yearlong or course-long schedule for delivering all of the planned units of study for a designated grade level or course
What is a pacing calendar?
Instructional technique the uses technology such as a computer, Internet, iPad, Smart Phones, and other electronic or digital products or systems in its delivery
What is technology-based teaching?
These may be written in friendly "I can" statements
What are learning targets?
An educator shall file reports of a breach of one or more of the standards in the Code of Ethics for Educators
What is Standard 8: Required Reports?
Determines if student knowledge can be applied outside of the classroom
What is authentic assessment?
Streamlining or modifying basic content to provide students with tiered assignments
What is compacting?
The process of breaking a classroom of students into small groups so they can discover a new concept together and help each other learn
What is cooperative learning?
Shows an overview of the progression of your central content focus over time
What is the learning segment scope and sequence?
The quarterly appraisal of the educator's conduct by the Professional Standards Commission through contact with the educator and his or her employer
What is "Monitoring"?
The evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something
What is assessment?
A multistep approach to providing services and interventions to students who struggle with learning that includes increasing levels of intensity
What is response to intervention (RTI)?