Feedback/Learning Styles
Bloom's Taxonomy
Potpourri
Assessment
Acronyms
100

The teacher repeats the student's error and adjusts intonation to draw attention to the error. 

What is repetition?

100

What is the main idea?

What is understanding?

100

Supportive strategies that make concepts and vocabulary understandable to students at different levels of language acquisition. 

What is "comprehensible input"?

100

Assessment that provides immediate feedback and supports learning. 

What is a formative assessment?

100

SWBAT

What is Students Will Be Able To?

200

The teacher provides the correct form.

What is Explicit correction?

200

Design a new home using only wind and solar power.  

What is create?

200

Krashen says learners require a safe environment to take risks to learn the language.

What is affective filter?

200

Assessment given at the start of the academic year or unit.

What is diagnostic?

200

BICS

What is Basic interpersonal communication skills?

300

The teacher reformulates or provides the correction.

What is recast?

300

How many steps are in Marzano's Vocabulary Process?

What is remembering?

300

The belief that intelligence can be developed through hard work and the use of effective strategies.

What is growth mindset?

300

These tests or exams compare students of similar age and grade to an "average" student. 

What is norm-referenced?

300

CALP

What is Cognitive academic language proficiency?

400

Learners who can absorb lecture with little effort.

What are auditory learners?

400

What approach would you use?

What is applying?

400

Name two benefits of extensive reading.

What are vocabulary development, reading endurance, fluency, enjoyment, background knowledge, empathy and general language proficiency?

400

These assessments come at the end of a unit or academic term. 

What are summative assessments?

400

Every language lessons should include a SWIRL.

What is "Speaking, Writing, Interacting, Reading, and Listening"?

500

Learners who need picture words, diagrams, cartoons, and demonstrations to learn.

What are visual learners?

500

What are the consequences?

What is analyzing?

500

Giving students adequate time for formulating responses aids in learning a language.

What is wait time?

500

Unlike norm-referenced exams, it measures whether or not the student knows the information being tested.

What is criterion-referenced exams?

500

QSSSA

What is question, signal, stem, share, and assess?