Communication
True or False: Active listening creates a positive learning environment
What is True
True or False: Whole class instruction is the most effective method for promoting students' engagement in learning.
What is False
This is the term for assessment that is used to determine what students know before beginning instruction
What is a diagnostic assessment?
A teacher’s ability to adjust teaching methods, learning pace, and course delivery to accommodate diverse student needs, learning styles, and circumstances
What is Flexibility and Responsiveness
A teacher wants to review their most recent lesson through a discussion format. Which of the following needs to be present for the discussion to be successful?
A) Students are actively engaged
B) Students explore each other's ideas
C) Students Take notes on the discussion
D) What is A&C
E) What is A&B
What is E (A&B)
Questions that enable students to reflect on their understanding of content and to consider new possibilities.
What are carefully framed questions
These are the two types of motivation that teachers use to help engage students in learning.
What is internal and external?
This type of assessment is conducted during the learning process to monitor student progress and inform instructional decisions.
What is formative assessment?
Lesson Adjustments, Response to students, and Persistence
What are the elements of flexibility and responsiveness?
In a scenario where a teacher reviews a student's research paper and provides a detailed written feedback that not only highlights areas for improvement but also praises the strengths of the work, ensuring that the comments are clear, actionable, and tailored to the student's needs, what type of instructional practice is exemplified here?
This is an example of timely and constructive feedback.
Beginning teachers should know and understand
A) How to create new communication tactics
B) The importance of clear, accurate communication in the teaching and learning process
C) Why students have trouble giving clear communication in discussions
D) All of the above
What is B
Teachers are often challenged when creating lessons utilizing multiple sources in the classroom. Teachers consider this method to ensure appropriate engagement for students.
(A)The lesson should have a clearly defined structure and organization around the activities in which the students will be engaged.
(b) The lesson should include as few resources as possible so students are not overwhelmed.
(c) The teacher should design a lesson that speaks to the students' social interests.
(d) The teacher should consider the amount of classroom space that is available.
What is A?
This assessment practice involves providing students with detailed feedback that not only addresses what they did well but also highlights specific areas for improvement
What is constructive feedback
A practice where educators actively examine and analyze their own teaching methods, strategies, and outcomes, with the goal of identifying areas for improvement and enhancing student learning.
What is reflective teaching?
When speaking and writing in the classroom, which of the following is most important for the teacher to consider about his/her students?
(a) Students' economic status, interests, backgrounds
(b) Students' ages, interests, backgrounds
(c) Students' ages, religious beliefs, backgrounds
(d) Students' backgrounds, race, economic status
What is B?
This nonverbal and verbal communication skill communicates the teacher's commitment to the students.
What is Intrapersonal Skills
There are five motivational orientations in the learning process that affect how a student responds to new learning. These include constructivist orientation, procedural orientation, conceptual orientation, effort orientation, and external performance motivation. A student using conceptual orientation in relation to his/her learning would ask one of these questions.
(a) Can I take my paper home to show my parents?
(b) Why do I have to show my work?
(c) Why was my answer incorrect?
(d) Why do I have to do 50 problems when I already know how to do this?
What is C?
Students engaging in this practice examine their own work against set criteria or standards to identify strengths and areas for improvement, promoting self-regulated learning.
What is "self-assessment"?
True or False: Act -> Collect Evidence -> Reflect -> Analyze Evidence -> Plan, is the correct order for the Reflective Teaching Cycle
What is False
It is important to frame discussion questions in a way that would promote higher level thinking in students. One of the following questions does not promote a student to think at a higher level.
A. Why does bias occur in primary and secondary sources?
B. Give an example. If you could add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, what would it be and why?
C. How would you ensure that supply and demand were equal? Give an example.
d. What do the terms cause and effect mean? Use them in a sentence.
What is D?
Instructional techniques that vary teacher and student roles in the instructional process.
What are discussion and inquiry
Emergent readers must learn three skills to begin to master the reading process. These three skills are; parts of the book, directionality of print from left to right, and voice to print match. This essential active helps to foster the reading process.
What is having someone read aloud to the student?
This key term refers to the process of changing teaching methods in response to students' needs, interests, or feedback, ensuring that learning remains effective and relevant.
What is "differentiated instruction"?
A teacher is beginning a new unit of study covering cultures. To best meet the student's needs and drive instruction, the teacher's first step should be to
A. administer an anticipation guide to activate prior knowledge of the cultures.
B. provide a short video clip showcasing the cultures.
C. show pictures of the part of the world associated with the cultures.
D. assign groups to research the cultures and countries.
What is A
The 6th-grade math teacher has discovered that some of her students are still having difficulty with basic division while many are ready to move on to division using decimals. If she is to meet the needs of each of her learners, which example is the best method for accomplishing this goal?
(a) Teach the whole class how to divide using decimals and then work with the struggling students while the others continue with decimal division problems.
(b) Pair the struggling students up with the students who already know basic division and have the stronger student teach the struggling student how to do basic division.
(c) Assign the struggling students extra basic division problems to be completed at home and continue with the lesson to the whole class on dividing using decimals.
(d) Sort the students according to learning needs, provide instruction to each group that is specific to their needs, assign appropriate problems, and move between groups to ensure all students are comprehending material.
What is D