Ignatian Mission
This is how every class at Strake Jesuit should begin.
What is prayer?
These describe what students should know or be able to do by the end of a class.
What are learning objectives?
This involves students talking to each other to deepen learning.
What is Student Discourse?
This term describes how students should behave during a particular activity.
What is/are ATM (Act, Talk, Move) expectations?
This Teaching Essential connects what students learn today to their lives, attitudes, or experiences.
What is context setting?
This type of verb should be used when writing measurable learning objectives
What are action (or key) verbs (Bloom’s Taxonomy)?
This breaks up a class into multiple activities or segments.
What is lesson chunking?
This focuses on the spatial arrangement of students in the room and it's match to the learning activity.
What is classroom arrangement?
This type of reflection helps students reconsider what they’ve learned and what they still wonder.
What is student reflection?
Two examples of tech tools you could use for a quick formative assessment.
What are Kahoot and Google Forms?
This student-to-student strategy allows thinking time and promotes discourse and deeper understanding.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
This term describes calmly and consistently correcting behavior without disrupting the flow.
What is a fluent correction?
Principle that emphasizes individualized attention to the unique needs of each person, encompassing their intellectual, moral, spiritual, and physical well-being
What is cura personalis?
It's called Chalk.
What is SJ's lesson planning platform?
These two types of questions support recall and curiosity, respectively.
What are closed and open questions?
This is a nonverbal way to positively reinforce student behavior.
What is a smile, nod, thumbs up, etc.?
It is July 31st.
This pair of tools helps teachers know what students understand — one focuses on the whole group during the lesson, and the other gathers individual data before or after class.
What is the difference between CfU and formative assessment?
What is the optimal length for a lesson chunk?
"That's the right answer!" is often mistaken for this SJ Essential.
What is "Being a Witness to the Good"?