core professional teaching standards - Answers 1) Teachers Demonstrate Leadership
2) Teachers Establish a Respectful Environment for a Diverse Population of Students
3) Teachers Know the Content They Teach
4) Teachers Facilitate Learning for Their Students
5) Teachers Reflect on Their Practice
6) Teachers Contribute to the Academic Success of Students
iceberg analogy - Answers - only about 1/9th of an iceberg is above water
- majority of iceberg is underwater and not visible
- used when we analyze people, judge based on what we can see
5 categories of instructional strategies - Answers - organizers
- concept learning
- question and review
- grouping
- assessment
organizers - Answers visual or oral representations that help students deepen their thinking skills and
improve their understanding of content
examples of organizers - Answers graphic organizers, advanced organizers
graphic organizers - Answers visual representations that help students deepen their thinking skills
and improve their understanding of subject matter across content areas
advance organizers - Answers a framework for helping students understand what they will be
learning, KWL chart
concept learning - Answers the search for and listing of attributes that can be used to distinguish
exemplars from non-exemplars of various categories.
examples of concept learning - Answers examples and non-examples, compare and contrast
examples and non-examples - Answers a model which consists of a definition, an expository
presentation of "matched" examples and non-examples that are arranged from easy to difficult and
are divergent, and an interrogatory practice presentation of new encountered and randomly ordered
examples and non-examples
compare and contrast - Answers require students to identify important characteristics and then use
these characteristics as the basis for identifying similarities and differences
question and review - Answers higher cognitive questions are defined as those which ask the student
to mentally manipulate bits of information previously learned to create an answer or to support an
answer with logically reasoned evidence
question and review examples - Answers higher level questions that ask for explanations, games
higher level questions that ask for explanations - Answers defined as being above the memory level
of bloom's taxonomy, more than simple recall of facts or information
games - Answers designed for review and mastery of learning material- individual, small groups,
whole groups
grouping - Answers founded on cooperative learning which refers to students working together for a
common goal or purpose
grouping examples - Answers think-pair-share, jigsaw
think-pair-share - Answers a cooperative learning technique designed to give students time to think
about a given topic and share their insights with another student
jigsaw - Answers cooperative learning technique intended to reduce racial conflict, promote
academic achievement and improve student motivation- students listen to each other to learn
assessment - Answers process of documenting knowledge, skills, and dispositions; may occur during
the course of instruction with feedback or at the end of the instruction to measure against standards
or benchmarks
examples of assessment - Answers formative, summative
formative assessment - Answers diagnostic assessment to provide feedback over the course of
instruction, used as feedback to modify teaching and learning activities
summative assessment - Answers given periodically to determine what students do or do not know at
a particular point in time
common trends in learning - Answers - standards based grading
- character education