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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
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1. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






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






3. Written work that makes connections between new and previously learned context






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. Teacher uses a group - based teacher - centered instructional approach to provide learning conditions for all students to achieve mastery of assigned information






8. Grade - level expectations or mastery (teacher - made or textbood made exam)






9. Where the student's score is in comparison to national or local norm






10. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






11. Interests of the children (early childhood - based)






12. Small groups or pairs to solve a problem or learn more about topic






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






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






15. Collection of products that reflect progress in a content area






16. Teacher finds key content that must be mastered and reduces the number of examples - activities - or lessons so that a student who is advanced can move forward and one who is lower can work for a while longer






17. Reading or hearing






18. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






20. Helpful for teachers to see that overall student motivation is very high or very low. Based on levels 1-4 (Bell Curve)






21. 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






22. Specific expectations of what a student must know and be able to do






23. Responding to a wide range of abilities present in the classroom






24. Teacher/student discussion to improve comprehension






25. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






26. 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






27. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






29. Provide information about learning in progress and offer the teacher and the student an opportunity to monitor and regulate learning






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






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






32. Standardized tests desired to measure ability to develop or acquire skills and knowledge






33. Involves students in the process of exploring the natural and/or material world in an effort to help them discover meaning






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






35. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






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






37. Scoring guide used in assessments






38. List the broad goals of a school district - state - or school and provide subject - specific outlines of course content - standards - and performance expectations






39. Effective teaching model of lessons

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40. Sharing stories of those who didn't give up - personalizing recognition - supporting students when they struggle






41. 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






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






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






44. Deciding what to believe or what to do






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






46. Student must perform a task or generate his or her own response during assessment






47. Oral - written - or through visual performance






48. Partner check (complete work individually and then check with partner) - group investigation (students are assigned a topic and prepare a report or summary to share with the whole class)






49. They can see patters and connections (comparing - contrasting - classifying information - discussion - inquiry - graphic organizers - and examples)






50. Nonlinguistic and linguistic