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Effective Teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. KWL- What do I already KNOW - What do I WANT to know - End of the reading/activity - what have I LEARNED. READS- REVIEW headings and subheadings - EXAMINE boldface words - ASK - 'what do I expect to learn?' - DO it-read - SUMMARIZE in your own words-
Learning Stages from Brain Article
Problem Solving
Discussion Questions
Reading Strategies [2]
2. Categories - sets - or classes with common characteristics. A concept has 5 characteristics: Name - definition - characteristics - examples - and place in a hierarchy. Piaget: If schema is inaccurate - students will be confused. If this is the case -
How Does the Brain Think?
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
3. 15 minutes
Three Roles of a Teacher
One activity
Anagram
Time delivering content
4. 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
Lesson Plan Guide (Indirect Teaching)
BT Stage 4
Behavioral Theorists [4]
Problem Solving
5. 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) -
Psychomotor Domain
Intrinsic Motivation
Concept Maps
The Importance of Repetition
6. Knowing when or under what conditions to use knowledge and procedures... 'If this - then this...' Logic: order of events.
Conditional Knowledge
Extrinsic Motivation
Problem Solving
BT Stage 2
7. Objectives must be organized and planned. Statement that describes what the student will be able to do upon completion of the instructional experience. Example: the student will be able to name all 50 states. Must be able to measure it!
Group Work
Behavioral Definition and Examples of Instruction
Learning
Objectives
8. Bandura - Moslow - Vygotsky
BT Stage 3
Concepts
Motivation [2 types]
Social Theorists [3]
9. 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
Comprehension Identification Words
Objectives are Intended to: [2 items]
How to Teach for Mastery in the Classroom
Types of Puzzle Challenges
10. Prior knowledge interferes with new learning
Negative Transfer
BT Stage 4
Behavioral Theorists [4]
Examples of Different Concept Maps
11. Reading Strategy: Who are the CHARACTERS - What is the AIM of the story - what PROBLEM happens - how is the problem SOLVED?
CAPS
Motivation [2 types]
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
How Does the Brain Think?
12. 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.
Affective Domain
Comprehension Identification Words
How Does the Brain Think?
Reading Strategies [2]
13. Knowing basic facts and information
The Students in the Schools Stats
Extrinsic Motivation
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
Declarative Knowledge
14. Piaget - Gagna - Bruner - Ausubel - Erikson - Vygoslsky.
Time wasted?
Procedural Knowledge
How to Teach for Mastery in the Classroom
Cognitive Theorists [6]
15. Comprehension: Demonstrating understanding of the materials; transforming - reorganizing - interpreting. Example: Explain in your own words OR What is the main idea of...
Anagram
BT Stage 2
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
Group Work
16. HOW curriculum is implemented in the classroom. Example: problem solving - puzzles - etc.
Social Theorists [3]
Three Roles of a Teacher
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
Instruction
17. Crossword puzzles - word searches - cryptograms - anagrams
One activity
Hunter's Model [8 Steps]
Three Things a Teacher Should Teach
Types of Puzzle Challenges
18. 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
How Does the Brain Think?
Analysis Identification Words
Curriculum
Strategies that Make a Difference [8]
19. Questions should be posed by the teacher that guide reflective thought and critical thinking. They should move beyond rote memory answers.The best approach is to: PLAN and WRITE your questions in advance of classroom discussion (so students don't tak
Cognitive Domain
Discussion Questions
Curriculum
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
20. 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)
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
Cooperative Learning
Pros/Cons to ILP
Kelly's Model [3 P's]
21. Teach - Manage - Assess (often neglected). All of these are intertwined
Extrinsic Motivation
Knowledge Identification Words
Objectives are Intended to: [2 items]
Three Roles of a Teacher
22. To distinguish - to discriminate - to analyze - to detect - to recognize - to infer - to categorize - to choose - to select
Examples of Different Concept Maps
CAPS
Analysis Identification Words
Deductive Learning
23. Enthusiasm - knowledge - organization - clarity teaching - vary instructional routine
Comprehension Identification Words
Objectives are Intended to: [2 items]
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
Five Effective Teaching Qualities
24. Locomotor skills - from the low-level simple manipulation of materials to the higher level of communication of ideas - and finally to the highest level of creative performance (music and art).
Synthesis Identification Words
Evaluation Identification Words
Building Blocks of Learning
Psychomotor Domain
25. Targets his/her audience and writes it for specific needs of the individual - provides for individual accomplishment and differentiation in students - and requires inordinate amount of time to create.
Pros/Cons to ILP
Types of Puzzle Challenges
Cognitive
Strategies that Make a Difference [8]
26. Organization of information through visual representations: concept maps - graphic organizers - webs - advanced organizer - schematic - Venn diagram.
The Students in the Schools Stats
Curriculum
PQ4R
Concept Maps
27. 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
Concept Attainment
How Does the Brain Think?
Robert Gagne's [9 Steps]
Synthesis Identification Words
28. Changes in overt behavior of the learner. Examples of Teaching Strategies: Computers - games - worksheets - reading - lecture - homework - individualized learning packet.
BT Stage 1
Cognitive Domain
Behavioral Definition and Examples of Instruction
3 Qualities You Want in you and your Students
29. The oldest most widely used form of curriculum broken into 3 categories: Common Content - Special Content - and Elective Content.
Types of Puzzle Challenges
Knowledge Identification Words
Synthesis Identification Words
Subject-Centered Curriculum [3]
30. 1.) Objectives - 2.) TEKS - 3.) Attention Getter - 4.) Content Delivery (15 minutes: lecture - lesson-discussion - demonstration) - 5.) Activities 6.) Closure of Lesson - 7.) Assessment. Discussion first - activity second.
Lesson Plan Guide (Direct Teaching)
BT Stage 3
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
Procedural Knowledge
31. How to communicate - observe and infer.
Objectives
Instruction
Three Things a Teacher Should Teach
Knowledge Identification Words
32. 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.
Cognitive
The Students in the Schools Stats
Knowledge Identification Words
Behavioral Definition and Examples of Instruction
33. 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
Behavioral Definition and Examples of Instruction
The Brain Makes ____ and ____
How Does the Brain Think?
Negative Transfer
34. 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?
Motivation [2 types]
How Does the Brain Think?
BT Stage 6
Knowledge Identification Words
35. Word or phrase formed from rearranging letters. Example: Elvis=lives - horse=?
BT Stage 2
Behavioral Theorists [4]
Anagram
Affective Domain
36. 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
Conditional Knowledge
Hidden Curriculum
Kelly's Model [3 P's]
Strategies that Make a Difference [8]
37. To define - to distinguish - to recall - to recognize - to develop - to outline - to identify
Comprehension Identification Words
PQ4R
Learning Stages from Brain Article
Knowledge Identification Words
38. Concept Maps - Reading Strategies - Questioning Techniques - Magic Square - Dichotomous Key - Cooperative Learning - Individualized Learning Packet - Puzzles and Information - Problem-solving activities.
Building Blocks of Learning
Activities and Strategies [9]
Three Things a Teacher Should Teach
Types of Puzzle Challenges
39. Pavlov - Watson - Thorndike - and Skinner
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
Behavioral Theorists [4]
BT Stage 1
Negative Transfer
40. Mental operations from the lowest level of simple recall of information to complex evaluative processes. What they will be able to do in class.
Extrinsic Motivation
Cognitive Domain
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
Time wasted?
41. 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
Understanding
Social Theorists [3]
CAPS
Reciprocal Reading [SACP]
42. 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...
Evaluation Identification Words
Instruction
Conditional Knowledge
BT Stage 5
43. 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.
Cooperative Learning
Individualized Lesson Plan
BT Stage 3
Generalizations
44. Application: Using information to solve a problem with a single correct answer. Example: Which principle is demonstrated in...
BT Stage 3
Knowledge Identification Words
Concept Maps
How Long does it take to gain their attention?
45. Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation... Three Domains of Learning: Cognitive - Affective - Psychomotor
46. There are 7 stages of development. Children must go through one stage in order to get to the next stage. Degeneration of brain cells is from lack of use - not a product of age. Some teachers teaching the curriculum and students do not learn - because
Declarative Knowledge
Learning Stages from Brain Article
PQ4R
Three Things a Teacher Should Teach
47. Knowing how to do something in steps- teaches mind structure and organization.
Objectives are Intended to: [2 items]
Procedural Knowledge
Hidden Curriculum
Factors that Affect Achievement [3]
48. Cause and Effect Organization - Sequence Chart - Main-Idea Organizers - Network Diagrams - Magic Square - Dichotomous Key.
Examples of Different Concept Maps
PQ4R
Psychomotor Domain
The Importance of Repetition
49. 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.
How to Teach for Mastery in the Classroom
Intrinsic Motivation
Cognitive
BT Stage 4
50. 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
BT Stage 1
Positive Transfer
BT Stage 3
Note Taking Strategies [4]