Unpacking Thinking
The aim of Ms. Diamond's music lesson is to design a 4-measure composition in the C major key. According to Bloom's Taxonomy, Ms. Diamond's students are engaging in the _____________ part of the pyramid.
Create
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely
What is the main idea of the Kite Runner? What do you think caused Amir and Baba to go to America? Do you agree or disagree with this statement - Amir has a complex relationship with Baba? Why or why not?
Questions to check understanding
Orientation, Presentation, Structured Practice, Guided Practice, Independent Practice
Direct Instruction Model
Students working in groups; learning is interaction-building on what students already know; knowledge is dynamic
beliefs of a constructivist classroom
Intrinsic, extraneous, germane
types of cognitive load
Feeling healthy by running motivates Jerry to be more active
intrinsic motivation
Incorrect answers, when studying this way, signals that further study is needed
practice tests
An SLO that requires students to describe the proper way to shoot a basketball asks students to ___________.
The phase during with Mary will assess her art project, set goals, and create a plan of action
Forethought
At the start of every class, Mrs. Meyers corrects HW with the whole class before starting the lesson. Mrs. Meyers is using a method for
reviewing previous learning
"I do, We do, You do"
Direct Instruction in a nutshell
Providing instructional scaffolds; assigning tasks and posing questions that are realistic and challenging; providing opportunities for learning by discovery
elements of the constructivist classroom
extraneous load
fixed mindset
Marcy studies for her exam every other day over the course of 2 weeks
distributed practice
Memorization of knowledge and facts
Surface Learning
The influences of self-directed learning
Students' beliefs about their intelligence
Providing scaffolds for difficult tasks; conducts daily reviews; providing models and guided practice
Mr. Scarola leads the entire class on the different ways and steps to serve a volleyball.
Structured Practice
Mrs. Rose asks her students, "If you were Romeo or Juliet, what would you have done?" Then asks students to think-pair-share.
cooperative learning
Communicating clear objectives and goals; emphasizing organization and meaningfulness; facilitate the transfer of information into long-term memory
elements of the information-processing classroom
Maslow's self-actualization need
Studying different topics every 20 minutes
interleaved practice
What is the DOK Level of the following question: "How many of you know the definition of cacoethes?"
DOK Level 1
By May 2020, Professor Oranjian will learn how to teach online courses as a way to meet school expectations, assist her students, and improve her teaching skills.
SMART Goal
Discussion, jigsaw, cooperative learning, discovery learning, project-based learning
Student centered and group-learning based instructional approaches
Orientation phase of the direct instruction model
Mr. Hudson, an art teacher, decided to buy a print of Van Gogh's Starry Night for his students to create their own impressions of the painting.
Discovery learning
Designing lessons and gearing teaching to capitalize on what is known about the learning process
Grace admits to her teacher that her goal for this semester of yoga is to perform the poses perfectly compared to her other peers.
performance-approach goal
Learning strategies that boost problem solving skills
self-explanation & elaborative interrogation
An alternative to Bloom's Taxonomy
-observing closely & describing what's there
-building explanations & interpretations
-reasoning with evidence
-making connections
-consider differing viewpoints & perspectives
-capturing the heart & forming conclusions
-wondering & asking questions
-uncovering complexity & going below the surface
What is this students' causal attribution?
Hans got a C on his Social Studies project. He says he could have done better if he could have found a way to organize the information better.
Being motivated to produce the proper form for a 4-count jumping jack; watching the teacher demonstrate how to do a 4-count jumping jack; remembering how to do a 4-count jumping jack
What students must feel/experience in order to learn from observation
implication of learning from observation - motivation
Teachers provide conditions that lead to the construction of students' views of reality
the goal of constructivist classroom
Using worked examples to teach students new content or skills; cutting out inessential information; encouraging students to visualize concepts and procedures that students have learnt
ways to optimize the load on students' working memory
Summarization; highlighting/underlining; imagery use (for text learning); rereading
low utility study strategies