When a teacher tries to keep the whole class engaged by asking the question first and then naming the student to respond.
What is group alerting?
100
Lower order thinking questions can be answered through...
What is memory and recall?
100
The worst kind of professional development is...
What is brief and sporadic?
100
Studies show that standardized testing and longer school days are not strongly correlated with raising student achievement. What is most closely related to improving student performance?
What is teacher professional development?
200
Some of the most powerful things taught in school not found in the curriculum at all.
What is hidden curriculum?
200
What classroom rules must be tied to.
What is strong consequences?
200
Higher order thinking questions is best used for
What is students expressing opinions?
200
more districts are doing this to attract and keep new teachers.
What is mentoring programs?
200
Constitutional Amendment associated with the controversies surrounding intelligent design.
What is the First Amendment?
300
A set of courses or content sometimes called the explicit curriculum.
What is formal curriculum?
300
When the class momentum is interrupted by random thoughts that just seem to pop into the teacher's head.
What are thrusts?
300
A method of teaching where the teacher presents the new information, the students practice, and the teacher provides feedback.
What is direct teaching?
300
European teachers as compared to U.S. teachers have...
What is 4-5 times more time for collaboration and professional development.
300
A type of assessment that capture actual student performance, encourages students to reflect on their own work, and is integrated into the student's whole learning process.
What is authentic assessment?
400
The reason for teachers and school districts cheating on standardized test score reporting because so much value is place on tests scores.
What is Campbell's Law?
400
A new teacher's classroom management techniques should...
What is mimic the philosophy of the school?
400
Each student moves at an individual pace and focuses on becoming proficient.
What is mastery learning?
400
The number of teacher belonging to either NEA or AFT.
What is 9 out of 10?
400
Engaged time with a high student success rate.
What is academic learning time?
500
The group of states that have the greatest influence on textbook adoption and therefore curriculum.
What are Texas, California, North Carolina, and Florida?
500
An effective teacher builds this through skillfully conducting discussions, group work, debates, and dialogues.
What is a learning community?
500
When teachers continually and intensely analyze their own practices to improve performance.
What is reflective teaching?
500
Lengthening school days and reducing class size strengthens these, but school consolidation does not.
What are learning communities?
500
When students work on activities on small heterogeneous groups, often receiving rewards or recognition based on overall group performance.