EDUC 701 PROFESSIONAL TEACHING PREP
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED A+
●● Pedagogy
Answer: The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and
methods of instructing.
●● Instructional Theory
Answer: A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best
teach students, especially young ones. This approach can be divided into
two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
●● Critical pedagogy
Answer: A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to
recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is
influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
●● Law of Effect
Answer: A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors
with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative
outcomes will be avoided.
,●● Direct instruction
Answer: A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically
leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type
of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills, but not for
less structured tasks such as English composition.
●● Academic Learning Time
Answer: The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies
when he is successful at learning the material.
●● Scheduled Time
Answer: The total length of the class.
●● Allocated Time
Answer: The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
●● Engaged Time
Answer: The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends
focused on the class.
●● Active teaching
Answer: A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for
ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing
,this include actively presenting concepts, checking to see if the students
understand, and reteaching any trouble areas for the students.
●● Generative learning
Answer: A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to
find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships
between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the
students to have confidence in their own ability to make these
connections.
●● Two-sigma problem
Answer: According to researcher Benjamin Bloom, students with
individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two
"sigmas") above those in average classrooms.
●● Norm-Referenced Testing
Answer: A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score
relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are
used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
●● Criterion-Referenced Testing
Answer: A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a
particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this
kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain
learning objective.
, ●● Instruction
Answer: All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term
includes the teacher, the textbook, the principal, and any others who
promote education.
●● Carroll's Model of School Learning
Answer: A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the
ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning.
learning=f(time spent/time needed)
●● Mastery Learning
Answer: Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept,
regardless of how long it takes.
●● Educational Psychology
Answer: The study of how students learn and develop.
●● Steiner-Waldorf Education
Answer: A humanistic, interdisciplinary form of teaching which
emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According
to this theory, children pass through three learning stages: imitative
learning, artistic learning, and abstract learning.
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED A+
●● Pedagogy
Answer: The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and
methods of instructing.
●● Instructional Theory
Answer: A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best
teach students, especially young ones. This approach can be divided into
two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
●● Critical pedagogy
Answer: A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to
recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is
influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
●● Law of Effect
Answer: A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors
with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative
outcomes will be avoided.
,●● Direct instruction
Answer: A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically
leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type
of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills, but not for
less structured tasks such as English composition.
●● Academic Learning Time
Answer: The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies
when he is successful at learning the material.
●● Scheduled Time
Answer: The total length of the class.
●● Allocated Time
Answer: The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
●● Engaged Time
Answer: The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends
focused on the class.
●● Active teaching
Answer: A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for
ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing
,this include actively presenting concepts, checking to see if the students
understand, and reteaching any trouble areas for the students.
●● Generative learning
Answer: A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to
find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships
between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the
students to have confidence in their own ability to make these
connections.
●● Two-sigma problem
Answer: According to researcher Benjamin Bloom, students with
individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two
"sigmas") above those in average classrooms.
●● Norm-Referenced Testing
Answer: A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score
relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are
used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
●● Criterion-Referenced Testing
Answer: A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a
particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this
kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain
learning objective.
, ●● Instruction
Answer: All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term
includes the teacher, the textbook, the principal, and any others who
promote education.
●● Carroll's Model of School Learning
Answer: A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the
ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning.
learning=f(time spent/time needed)
●● Mastery Learning
Answer: Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept,
regardless of how long it takes.
●● Educational Psychology
Answer: The study of how students learn and develop.
●● Steiner-Waldorf Education
Answer: A humanistic, interdisciplinary form of teaching which
emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According
to this theory, children pass through three learning stages: imitative
learning, artistic learning, and abstract learning.
