Purpose of....
Lesson Planning
Vocabulary
Putting into Action
Working in the Brain
100

This lesson component helps the teacher ensure the lesson is aligned to the curriculum designed by the state of Texas. It includes defining a measurable outcome for determining if students met the learning goal. 

What is the content objective? 

100

1. Intentionally choose instructional strategies based on what ought to be happening in students' minds during the lesson. 

2. Have an organized manner to think through how the lesson will be presented. 

3. Purposefully use diversity in the classroom and community to enrich all students' learning experiences. 

4. Ensure lessons are aligned to the TEKS and have a measurable assessment piece. 

What is the purpose of a lesson plan? 


100

This is the term that is used to refer to the congruency with instructional goals and objectives, lesson activities, and assessments. 

What is alignment? 

100

A language objective that meets this standard: 74.4(c)(5)(B) write using newly acquired basic vocabulary and content-based grade level vocabulary. 

What is (language objective given)? 

Must include students writing vocabulary with context (not just copy words/definitions)

100

These are two separate processes of the brain. One typically requires repetition of new learning while the other requires developing multiple pathways to the memory. 

What is storing and retrieving memories? 

200

This part of the lesson plan allows students to clarify what was learned and what is still a struggle, consolidate learning through review, practice using the learning, or link learning to prior and future lessons and knowledge. 

What is the closing? 

200

This lesson model is also known as the gradual release model because it gradually moves responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student. 

What is the direct instruction lesson model? 

200

A learning strategy that asks and engages students in pursuing compelling, difficult-to-answer questions that defy a simple, straightforward answer. 

What is inquiry-based learning? 

200

According to Maslow, for students to be able to learn it is important for teachers to first address these basic needs. 

What are safety and security? 

200

Cognitive scientists have found that the more associations we make with a new memory, the more likely we will be able to store and retrieve it for later use. Thus we must encourage this element in preschool, elementary, middle, and high schools. (What is the element?)

What is retrieval practice? 

300

The part of the lesson plan that is used to activate prior knowledge, create interest or curiosity in the topic to learn, and/or settle students for learning. 

What is the focus activity? 

300

These are the steps of the Jigsaw lesson, in order. 

What is information gathering, expert group, home group, assessment and recognition? 

300

These are the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, in order from most complex to least complex. 

What are evaluation, synthesis/create, analysis/relationships, application/transfer, understanding/comprehension? 

300

Ms. Isabella Ringinyet put her students in random groups to learn a concept. She then assessed the individual's learning and gave a group prize to the most successful group. What did the teacher do wrong in this lesson model?

STAD requires balanced groups. 

300

To encode learning into this memory, teachers need to space practice sessions over a period of days or even weeks. 

What is long-term memory? 

400

Having this in the lesson plan verifies the teacher is teaching Texas' standards for what students should be able to know and do. 

What are TEKS? 

400

These are the steps of the STAD lesson plan model, in order. 

What is presentation, team study, individual assessment, team recognition/reward? 

400

Cognitive scientists refer to this as the process of seeing a problem for what it is and conjuring up the right script in our mind to solve it. 

What is schema, or mental model? 

400

Mr. Cy Lance needs to teach his students 20 vocabulary words. Students need to really know the definition, so he decides the direct instruction method of instruction is best because he has the most control over learning in this model. 

What would work better?

What is Jigsaw? 

Using the Jigsaw so students divide the workload, take ownership in the learning, and do a majority of the teaching. 

400

Immediate memory: interest, commitment, present stimuli

Working memory: focus, make sense, engage students

Long-term memory: practice, extend, apply, revisit learning

What are the three phases of memory and their characteristics in the classroom? 

500

This element is specific, forward thinking, understandable, and encouraging. 

What is effective feedback? 

500

These are the lesson plan models discussed in EDED 3310, from least student centered to most student centered. 

What is direct instruction, STAD, and Jigsaw? 

500

Texas' state assessment program designed to measure the extent to which students have learned and are able to apply the knowledge and skills defined in the state-mandated curriculum standards. 

What is STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness)? 

500

Scientific concept that supports the assertion that one of the most effective teaching strategies is "to invite your students to share, recall, or brainstorm what they already know about a topic they are going to learn more about." 

What is prior knowledge? 

500

can hold 4-7 bits of information at a time

time-out after 5-10 minutes

unlikely to learn if feel unsafe or insecure

does not always function as a linear process

What are some key elements to remember about students' brains when learning?