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Praxis Instruction And Assessment

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






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






3. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






4. Oral - written - or through visual performance






5. 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






6. Watching students interactions and learning behaviors






7. 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






8. Knowledge (who - what - where) - comprehension (interpret - retell - organize) - application (subdividing info and putting it back together) - synthesis (infer an idea) - evaluation (making a value decision)






9. Measures student progress toward meeting goals based on local - state - and/or national goals






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






11. Combines service to the community with learning inside and outside the classroom






12. This taps into students' natural curiosity to each student's advantage; it helps students more deeply understand concepts...student must be clear in explaining to apply knowledge to new setting






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






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






15. Test is found to be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure






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






17. Realistic scenarios to consider during simulation






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






19. Students work as a class to read - discuss - or solve problem (don't use all the time)






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






21. Written notes teacher maintain based on observations of individual children (file folders - mailing labels - index cards)






22. Used for students with memory difficulties or learning disabilties






23. Reading or hearing






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






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






26. Tool for learning in schools today






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






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






29. Develop the response






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






31. Given before teaching so teachers understand areas of weaknesses






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






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






34. When you divide a normal distribution of scores into four equal parts 25% 50% 75%






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






36. Demonstrate the grade and month of the school year to which a student score can be compared






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






38. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






39. Student draws line down the middle of page; left - hand side used for taking lecture notes - right - hand side used for reflections and connections






40. Smaller number of particpants drawn from a total population






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






42. 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






43. Scoring guide used in assessments






44. Deciding what to believe or what to do






45. Effective teaching model of lessons

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






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






48. Based on mathematical transformation of a raw scores






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






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







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