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Effective Teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. You want all children to have mastery of the content. IF they do not do well the first time - reteach the material in a different way. 1.) Teach 2.) Test/Assess 3.) Reteach 4.) Retesting (using correctives). Be sure that you alter your teaching to th
How to Teach for Mastery in the Classroom
Learning
Strategies that Make a Difference [8]
Generalizations
2. 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
Negative Transfer
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
Application Identification Words
Objectives
3. Knowing how to do something in steps- teaches mind structure and organization.
Procedural Knowledge
Individualized Lesson Plan
Activities and Strategies [9]
Synthesis Identification Words
4. Cause and Effect Organization - Sequence Chart - Main-Idea Organizers - Network Diagrams - Magic Square - Dichotomous Key.
Examples of Different Concept Maps
Problem Solving
BT Stage 1
Objectives are Intended to: [2 items]
5. Application: Using information to solve a problem with a single correct answer. Example: Which principle is demonstrated in...
Learning Stages from Brain Article
Instruction
BT Stage 3
Three Roles of a Teacher
6. Concept Maps - Reading Strategies - Questioning Techniques - Magic Square - Dichotomous Key - Cooperative Learning - Individualized Learning Packet - Puzzles and Information - Problem-solving activities.
Student-Centered Curriculum
Behavioral Definition and Examples of Instruction
BT Stage 5
Activities and Strategies [9]
7. The oldest most widely used form of curriculum broken into 3 categories: Common Content - Special Content - and Elective Content.
Declarative Knowledge
Concept Maps
Subject-Centered Curriculum [3]
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
8. Cooperative learning (ability group ~ 5 members) - learning centers - group work - think-pair-share - jigsaw - panel discussion - symposium (members present their side) - debate - round table.
BT Stage 5
CAPS
Group Work
How Does the Brain Think?
9. To select - to judge - to assess - to compare - to appraise - to distinguish - to evaluate - to decide - to determine
Robert Gagne's [9 Steps]
Evaluation Identification Words
Problem Solving
Cognitive
10. A puzzle with a hidden meaning
Cryptograms
PQ4R
Note Taking Strategies [4]
One activity
11. Knowledge: Recognizing and recalling information. About 90 percent of learning doesn't get passed knowledge. Example: What is the capital of...
Affective Domain
Discussion Questions
BT Stage 1
Cognitive
12. 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.
PQ4R
Note Taking Strategies [4]
Understanding
The Students in the Schools Stats
13. Content as it relates to student interests and real life.
Student-Centered Curriculum
Generalizations
Three Roles of a Teacher
Psychomotor Domain
14. Prior knowledge went away and nothing goes forward.
Curriculum
Zero Transfer
BT Stage 1
Evaluation Identification Words
15. The brain thinks and processes in wholes (deductive reasoning) - so it is important for a student to understand the whole first - then once there is understanding - the teacher is able to move to specifics and details (inductive reasoning).
Student-Centered Curriculum
Deductive Learning
Note Taking Strategies [4]
Concept Maps
16. Pavlov - Watson - Thorndike - and Skinner
Lesson Plan Guide (Indirect Teaching)
PQ4R
Procedural Knowledge
Behavioral Theorists [4]
17. Synthesis: Divergent - original thinking - proposal - design or story. Example: What's a good name for OR What would the U.S. be like if the British had won...
BT Stage 5
Robert Gagne's [9 Steps]
Knowledge Identification Words
Three Things a Teacher Should Teach
18. Teacher creates curriculum and activities for a student who is allowed to progress at his/her own rate. To create this: write content section (length varies from paragraph to 1-2 pages); number of content sections varies - content is followed by comp
BT Stage 4
Individualized Lesson Plan
Learning
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
19. 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.
Cognitive
Objectives
Negative Transfer
Knowledge Identification Words
20. 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
The Brain Makes ____ and ____
One activity
Psychomotor Domain
BT Stage 4
21. Application of material (vs. learning: change in behavior).
Behavioral Theorists [4]
Psychomotor Domain
PQ4R
Understanding
22. Word or phrase formed from rearranging letters. Example: Elvis=lives - horse=?
The Importance of Repetition
How Does the Brain Think?
Subject-Centered Curriculum [3]
Anagram
23. Organization of information through visual representations: concept maps - graphic organizers - webs - advanced organizer - schematic - Venn diagram.
Concept Maps
Instruction
Building Blocks of Learning
Hidden Curriculum
24. 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
Lesson Plan Guide (Indirect Teaching)
Social
Affective Domain
Strategies that Make a Difference [8]
25. Comprehension: Demonstrating understanding of the materials; transforming - reorganizing - interpreting. Example: Explain in your own words OR What is the main idea of...
Discussion Questions
Problem Solving
Strategies that Make a Difference [8]
BT Stage 2
26. To define - to distinguish - to recall - to recognize - to develop - to outline - to identify
Concept Attainment
How Does the Brain Think?
Knowledge Identification Words
Extrinsic Motivation
27. Designed to teach reading comprehension strategies. SUMMARIZING the content of a passage - ASKING a question about the central point - CLARIFYING the difficult parts of the material - and PREDICTING what will come next. Have them read the statement t
Individualized Lesson Plan
Reciprocal Reading [SACP]
Types of Puzzle Challenges
Reading Strategies [2]
28. External catalyst that encourages behaviors (rewards and punishments). Begin with this and then move toward intrinsic. Examples: praise - grades - food - tokens - attention getters (how you open your lesson)
Extrinsic Motivation
Three Roles of a Teacher
Social Theorists [3]
Generalizations
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.
Hidden Curriculum
One activity
Affective Domain
Extrinsic Motivation
30. Knowing when or under what conditions to use knowledge and procedures... 'If this - then this...' Logic: order of events.
Cryptograms
Analysis Identification Words
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
Conditional Knowledge
31. Being able to apply what we know. Being able to retain information. It is a change in mental processes or observable behavior. Changes in behavior due to experience. The development of understandings and the CHANGE OF BEHAVIOR resulting from experien
Building Blocks of Learning
BT Stage 2
Comprehension Identification Words
Learning
32. No more than 22 seconds
Objectives are Intended to: [2 items]
Evaluation Identification Words
BT Stage 1
Time to get on task?
33. 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
Group Work
Problem Solving
Extrinsic Motivation
Hunter's Model [8 Steps]
34. Changes in school achievement as well as changes in attitude and motivation. Example of Teaching Strategies: group work - role play - cooperative learning - demonstration - learning centers - and discussion.
Social
Learning Stages from Brain Article
Building Blocks of Learning
Examples of Different Concept Maps
35. WHAT is taught in the classroom. Usually in written form. Example: textbook. Without content knowledge - it's impossible to teach.
Cooperative Learning
Curriculum
Cognitive Domain
Activities and Strategies [9]
36. 20 seconds
Cognitive
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
Time wasted?
Application Identification Words
37. To apply - to employ - to relate - to predict - to use
Application Identification Words
Evaluation Identification Words
Time delivering content
Concept Maps
38. PREVIEW - QUESTION - READ - REFLECT - RECITE - REVIEW: Teach them how to look for the main points.
BT Stage 5
PQ4R
Time delivering content
Robert Gagne's [9 Steps]
39. Bandura - Moslow - Vygotsky
Declarative Knowledge
Psychomotor Domain
Three Roles of a Teacher
Social Theorists [3]
40. A process that energizes and directs behavioral outcomes. Extrinsic and intrinsic.
Three Roles of a Teacher
The Students in the Schools Stats
Motivation [2 types]
Multiculturalism [4]
41. Crossword puzzles - word searches - cryptograms - anagrams
Types of Puzzle Challenges
Cognitive
Reading Strategies [2]
Group Work
42. 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?
Generalizations
BT Stage 4
Three Roles of a Teacher
Zero Transfer
43. Internal catalyst that comes from within the individual; a natural tendency to seek out and conquer challenges and pursue personal interests. Learning is often the reward. This is student centered. Examples: values (parents now want values taught) -
Intrinsic Motivation
Types of Puzzle Challenges
Comprehension Identification Words
Negative Transfer
44. 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
Cooperative Learning
Five Effective Teaching Qualities
Instruction
The Importance of Repetition
45. 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)
Procedural Knowledge
Evaluation Identification Words
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
Social Theorists [3]
46. 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.
Group Work
Positive Transfer
Robert Gagne's [9 Steps]
Lesson Plan Guide (Indirect Teaching)
47. Strategy used to help students categorize attributes of a specific concept (e.g. hurricanes - gulf coast region - verbs - etc.) In advance of the lesson - the teacher must determine: the name of the concept - concept definition - conceptual attribute
Concept Attainment
Kelly's Model [3 P's]
BT Stage 1
Psychomotor Domain
48. Prior knowledge interferes with new learning
Subject-Centered Curriculum [3]
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
Knowledge Identification Words
Negative Transfer
49. 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
Hidden Curriculum
Cryptograms
How Does the Brain Think?
Positive Transfer
50. 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
Synthesis Identification Words
Deductive Learning
Note Taking Strategies [4]
Kelly's Model [3 P's]