Exam 4 Flashcards
Learner directed instruction
Students have considerable control regarding issues they address and the ways they address them in a lesson
Teacher directed instruction
Teacher is largely in control of content and course of the lesson
Instructional goal
Desired long term outcome of a lesson
Instructional objective
Desired outcome of a lesson or unit
Backward design
Approach to instructional planning in which a teacher first determines the desired end result, such as what knowledge and skills students should acquire, and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies
Standards
General statements regarding the knowledge and skills that students should gain and the characteristics that their accomplishments should reflect
Blooms taxonomy
Taxonomy of six cognitive processes that lessons might be designed to foster
6 processes of blooms taxonomy
Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create
Task analysis
Process of identifying the specific behaviors, knowledge or cognitive processes necessary to master a particular subject area or skill
Lesson plan
Teacher constructed guide for a lesson that identifies instructional goals and materials and assessment methods
Expository instruction
Approach to instruction in which information is presented in more or less the same form in which students are expected to learn it
Advance organizer
Introduction to a lesson that provides an overall organizational scheme for the lesson
Mastery learning
Approach to instruction in which students learn one topic thoroughly before moving to a subsequent one
Direct instruction
Approach that uses a variety of techniques (ie explanations questions) in a fairly structured manner to promote learning of basic skills
Distance learning
Technology based instruction in which students are at a location physically separate from that of their instructor
Information literacy
Knowledge and skills that help a learner find use evaluate organize and present information about a particular topic
Discovery learning
Approach to instruction in which students derive their own knowledge about a topic through firsthand interaction with the environment
Inquiry learning
Students seek new information through the intentional application of higher level thinking processes
Authentic activity
Classroom activity similar to an activity that students are apt to encounter in the outside world
Lower level question
Requires students to retrieve and recite what they have learned in essentially the same way they learned it
Higher level question
Requires students to use previously learned information in a new way
Reciprocal teaching
Approach to teaching reading and listening comprehension in which students take turns asking teacher like questions of classmates
Cooperative learning
Students work with small group of peers to achieve a common goal and help one another learn
Base group
Cooperative learning group in which students work together for an entire semester or year to provide mutual support for each other’s learning
Jigsaw technique
Materials are divided among members of a group with different students being responsible for learning different content and teaching it to other group members
Scripted cooperation
Cooperative learning groups follow a set of steps or script that guides members verbal interactions
Differentiated instruction
Practice of individualize my instructional methods and possibly content or goals to align with each students existing knowledge skills and needs
Assessment
Process of observing a sample of a students behavior and drawing inferences about the students knowledge and abilities
Informal assessment
Results from a teachers spontaneous day to day observations of how students perform in class
Formal assessment
Preplanned systematic attempt to ascertain what students know and can do
Paper pencil assessment
Students provide written responses to written items
Performance assessment
Students demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a non written fashion
Traditional assessment
Focuses on measuring basic knowledge and skills in relative isolation from tasks typical of the outside world