Test your basic knowledge |

Effective Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 1.) Gaining Attention - 2.) Objectives - 3.) Recall of Prior Learning - 4.) Presenting the Stimulus - 5.) Providing Learning Guidance - 6.) Eliciting Performance - 7.) Providing Feedback - 8.) Assessing Performance - 9.) Enhancing Retention and Trans

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


2. Knowing when or under what conditions to use knowledge and procedures... 'If this - then this...' Logic: order of events.






3. 1.) Anticipatory Set - 2.) The Objective and It's Purpose - 3.) Input - 4.) Modeling - 5.) Check for Understanding - 6.) Guided Practice - 7.) Independent Practice (HW) - 8.) Closure

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


4. Changes in the mental structures that contain information and procedures for operating on information. Examples of Teaching Strategies: Audio-visual aide - experiments - hands-on-activities - concept maps - mnemonics - reports - and homework.






5. Student's ability to study and comprehend is often contingent upon their ability to take notes. Best Strategies: 1. Outline (full or incomplete)- provided by teacher - 2. 'T' notes created by students - 3. Picture frame notes - 4. Concept maps create






6. 1.) Ability to observe objectively (making an inference. Filled with adjectives or do you cut to the chase? Do not involve adjectives) - 2.) ability to communicate clearly (giving directions you must be specific) - 3.) ability to infer/make assumptio






7. Prior knowledge went away and nothing goes forward.






8. Each person has a different role. Most effective group collaborative out there - Jobs vary depending on the assignment. Individual and group accountability. Individual grades - peer evaluations - assess at the end of every day! 80% retention






9. A study of 25 -000 high school students determined that 3 major influences on academic achievement are: Ability (what the kid has) - motivation (teacher and kid) - quality of instruction (teacher-critical to children)






10. WHAT is taught in the classroom. Usually in written form. Example: textbook. Without content knowledge - it's impossible to teach.






11. In any type of problem solving - the student is actively involved in deriving a solution to a problem/dilemma posed by the teacher. Problem solving can take many forms in a classroom situation: geographical mapping - experiments - scavenger hunts - t






12. Application of material (vs. learning: change in behavior).






13. 20 seconds






14. You want prior learning to contribute to recent learning in a positive transfer. Large group teaching makes it impossible. Goal is to have positive transfer.






15. Pavlov - Watson - Thorndike - and Skinner






16. Comprehension: Demonstrating understanding of the materials; transforming - reorganizing - interpreting. Example: Explain in your own words OR What is the main idea of...






17. No more than 22 seconds






18. 1.) Objectives - 2.) TEKS - 3.) Attention Getter - 4.) Activities (introduce activities without content) - 5.) Content Delivery (lecture - lecture-discussion - demonstration) - 6.) Closure of Lesson - 7.) Assessment. Activity first - discussion secon






19. Reading Strategy: Who are the CHARACTERS - What is the AIM of the story - what PROBLEM happens - how is the problem SOLVED?






20. How to communicate - observe and infer.






21. Statements - sometimes inferential in nature - that describe a relationship between two or more concepts. A law or principle is a generalization that is accepted as truth. Must be able to transfer information to other things- application.






22. Mental operations from the lowest level of simple recall of information to complex evaluative processes. What they will be able to do in class.






23. Facts: small bits of knowledge- must know facts in order to understand concepts. The goal is to get them to conceptualization.






24. To define - to distinguish - to recall - to recognize - to develop - to outline - to identify






25. Knowledge: Recognizing and recalling information. About 90 percent of learning doesn't get passed knowledge. Example: What is the capital of...






26. A puzzle with a hidden meaning






27. 1.) Help teachers plan WHAT they are going to teach (not HOW they are going to teach). 2.) Help teachers create test questions that align with what has been taught (as indicated by the objective). Plan/organize- what. objectives must match test quest






28. Crossword puzzles - word searches - cryptograms - anagrams






29. Feelings - attitudes - and values from lower levels of acquisition to the highest level of internalization and action. We want them to value what they learn.






30. Analysis: Critical thinking; identifying reasons and motives; making inferences based on specific data; analyzing conclusions to see if supported by evidence. Example: What influenced the writings of OR Why was DC chosen as the capital?






31. Most crime occurs between 4 pm and 7 pm. About one-fourth of the children in the U.S. live in poverty (< $18 -000). More than one-half of all students in the U.S. are being raised by a single parent.






32. Content as it relates to student interests and real life.






33. Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation... Three Domains of Learning: Cognitive - Affective - Psychomotor

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


34. Teach - Manage - Assess (often neglected). All of these are intertwined






35. 15 minutes






36. 1. Compare/contrast activities - 2. Summarizing and note taking - 3. Homework and class practice - 4. Non linguistic representation (concept maps - pictures - graphs - kinesthetic activity: vary routine- humans are visual learners) - 5. Cooperative l






37. Values or behaviors that students learn indirectly over the course of their schooling because of the structure of the educational system and the teaching methods used. Teachers must educate the 'whole student' not just the part of the student that th






38. Cooperative learning (ability group ~ 5 members) - learning centers - group work - think-pair-share - jigsaw - panel discussion - symposium (members present their side) - debate - round table.






39. To distinguish - to discriminate - to analyze - to detect - to recognize - to infer - to categorize - to choose - to select






40. Every 50 Minutes






41. Word or phrase formed from rearranging letters. Example: Elvis=lives - horse=?






42. Piaget - Gagna - Bruner - Ausubel - Erikson - Vygoslsky.






43. A process that energizes and directs behavioral outcomes. Extrinsic and intrinsic.






44. Evaluation: Judging the worth of an idea - notion - theory - thesis - proposition - information - or opinion. Informed opinion or decision. Example: Which U.S. senator is the most effective?






45. 20 minutes per 50 minute period






46. To apply - to employ - to relate - to predict - to use






47. HOW curriculum is implemented in the classroom. Example: problem solving - puzzles - etc.






48. Patterns and connections that CHANGE with experiences. When triggered - the connections that have been constructed by the brain reassemble into the patterns that make up memory. With experiences - dendrites grow and make connections with other neuron






49. To create - to propose - to integrate - to plan - to design - to synthesize - to formulate - to perceive - to organize - to prepare - to develop - to compile - to incorporate - to visualize






50. Changes in overt behavior of the learner. Examples of Teaching Strategies: Computers - games - worksheets - reading - lecture - homework - individualized learning packet.