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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Helps prepare students' minds for instruction; research has found that learning increases when teachers focus on what is most important - not what students might think is the most interesting






2. Showing a student what something is or how to do something






3. Teacher poses a problem and makes students think individually...teacher then suggests pairing and sharing on problem.






4. Teacher - led or peer - led (literature circles and cooperative learning activities...lectures - recitations - reciprical teaching and Socrative seminars






5. Standarized tests (used against peer's scores)






6. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






7. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






8. Like authentic assessments/understanding of key concepts or his or her ability to commuicate ideas in writing






9. Measure a student's knowledge or proficiency in something that has been learned






10. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






11. Oral - written - or through visual performance






12. Instructional materials are divided and then studied by individuals or pairs of students. After they become experts on their sections of information they share the information with the group






13. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






14. Set induction as an activity at the start of a lesson used to set the stage for learning in order to help motivate students and activate prior knowledge






15. Objectives - standards - materials - learner/enviornmental factors - opening - middle - closing - assessment






16. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






17. Standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single student who took the same test multiple times






18. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






19. Child's work...stimulates - rewards - observes - explores - models - hypothesizes - discover






20. Combining information from two or more content areas (English and history)






21. Scoring guide used in assessments






22. Instructional apporach that ties information to an anchor; student uses concrete applications of the concept being taught (anchor) to connect what he or she is learning to a concrete experience






23. Deciding what to believe or what to do






24. Provide information about learning to be used to make judgements about a student's achievement and the teacher's instruction






25. Derived from STANdard NINEs. based on nine - point standard scale with a mean of five






26. Students work at thier own pace under the leadership or guidance (good for those who need accomodations)






27. Story maps - cause and effect maps - sequence diagrams - continuums - matrixes and cycle maps






28. Carefully planned lessons presented in small - attainable increments with clearly defined goals and objectives (lectures - demonstrations - review of student performance - student examination)






29. Used after focused lessons...provide alternative to seat work - rewards students - provide enrichment and remediation - fosters collaboration - accomodates individual learning styles






30. To be assessed as successful - students must contribute to the group's success and complete their portion of the task






31. Essays - short - answer






32. Home team - each student is then given a number - each student joins others with same number to become expert - home team comes together to teach others the lesson he/she learned






33. Using previously learned material in a new situation or context (often supported in the closing of the lesson)






34. Provides expectations for the knowlege stduents must demonstrate in specific content areas






35. Effective teaching model of lessons

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36. Tool for learning in schools today






37. Develop the response






38. Students must be taught and learn to use teamwork and positive social skills when working with others






39. Set clear expectations for lessons (not too narrow); students need to understand big picture and be able to connect what they are leanring to experiences and events (use advance organizers)






40. Teacher offers same core content to each student but provides varying levels of support for students






41. Survey (preview of chapter) - question (scans headings and subheadings and rephrases them into questions) - read (read one section of chapter) - recite (answers questions in his/her own words and writes notes) - review (immediately reviews what has b






42. Mean = average median = midpoint mode= most common






43. Extent to which an assessment is consistent with its measures






44. Four or five students who collaborate on worksheets designed to provide extended practice on instruction given by the teacher






45. Nonlinguistic and linguistic






46. Organizing curriculum around large themes






47. Groups that change as the students' learnng needs change






48. Double - entry page - graphic organziers - and SQ3R






49. Essays - journals - short - answers used to generate general discriptions of the criteria for success on each question






50. Foster inquiry rather than didactic (lecture) methods for learning (asking questions and hypothesize)