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






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






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






4. Interaction that promotes face - to - face or individual interaction and relationships






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






6. Student must work together to successfully accomplish task






7. Teacher breaks down unit's content into smaller units and provides support and frequent feedback to the student as he or she demonstrates understanding of each unit






8. Visual - kinesthetic - whole body






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






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






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






12. 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)






13. Tool for learning in schools today






14. Instructional strategies suggested by researchers that improve achievement across the content area






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. Effective teaching model of lessons

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23. In original unaltered form






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






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






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






27. Equivalent number of questions he or she answered correctly






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






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






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






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






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






33. Reading or hearing






34. Opportunites to transition from the classroom to the workforce






35. Students working together to solve problems or achieve goals






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






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






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






39. What the student feels is his or her area of weakness or strength






40. Focus on oberservable behaviors and focus on congnitive objectives






41. 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






42. Essays - short - answer






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. Organizing curriculum around large themes







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