Instructional Delivery and Comprehensive Understanding of Subject Matter Competency 3

Question 1

Five research-based practical techniques to motivate the unmotivated student

Answer 1

Challenge, choice, significance, feedback, and competence.

Question 2

Key 1) Realize that challenge and high expectations are more motivating than low expectations.

Answer 2

Examples: Writing an essay is a chore; getting published is a challenge.

Question 3

Key 2)Provide choice:

Answer 3

We best engage students when we seek diversity of responses rather than coping and mindless repetition.

Question 4

Key 3)Give students an opportunity for significance:

Answer 4

Students crave for responsibility and meaning and large-sca;e service learning projects in small and large school systems demonstrate the power of purpose and meaning for their lives.

Question 5

Key 4)Provide Feedback that is accurate, specific, and designed to improve performance:

Answer 5

Provide feedback that is clear, relevant, immediate, and constructive. Feedback, not threats of low grades, fears to better performance.

Question 6

Key 5) Help students to feel competent:

Answer 6

They are more engaged and learned better when they are challenged, exercise choice, feel significant, receive accurate feedback, and know that they know that they are competent.

Question 7

T or F: Lower expectations should be provided for students who lack internal motivation.

Answer 7

F: Expectations should not be lowered for students who lack motivation; better yet, higher expectations should be laid out for this type of student.

Question 8

Five Key strategies are outlined:

Answer 8

Challenge, choice, significance, feedback and competent.

Question 9

What kind of feedback is beneficial for all students?

Answer 9

Feedback for all students should focus on specificity and accuracy and be designed to improve performance.

Question 10

T or F: Providing students with thoughtful feedback is an important instructional practice.

Answer 10

T: Providing students with thoughtful feedback is an important instructional practice that supports a student’s growth and development.

Question 11

When giving feedback, is it most beneficial to discuss multiple skill sets? Yes or No?

Answer 11

No, when giving feedback, students are able to focus and gain more academic ground when they are focusing on one skill at the time.

Question 12

Developing critical and creative thinking skills:

Answer 12

Questioning
Fluency, originality, flexibility, and elaboration.
Visualization
Mind mapping (Visual note-taking)
Point of view
Analogies (comparisons)
Encapsulation
Decisions and outcomes
Plus, minus, and interesting.

Question 13

Providing differentiation in reading:

Answer 13

Make your read-alouds a common teaching text
Teach with diverse materials.
Organize for instruction so you meet all reading levels.
Value independent practice reading.
Show students how to construct meaning while reading.
Encourage discussion
Write to explore, think, learn, and improve comprehension.
Use ongoing assessments to support each student.
Plan your units carefully.

Question 14

What does it mean to differentiate in literacy?

Answer 14

Differentiation in literacy focuses on providing leveled support to readers within the classroom.

Question 15

What is visualization?

Answer 15

Is a strategy which opens up student thinking by using sensory information to stimulate imagination with both spoken and written words.

Question 16

T or F: Analogy is a practical tool which build students’ confidence while focusing on lower-level thinking skills.

Answer 16

F: Analogy is a higher-order thinking skill activity, which focuses on generating new comparisons.

Question 17

What are the three general ways that instruction can be differentiated?

Answer 17

Content, Process, and Products.

Question 18

Why is it important to establish guidelines when integrating technologic?

Answer 18

Students must know what is expected of them in order to make good choices within the learning environment.

Question 19

Integrating technologic: What is a back-up plan?

Answer 19

It is an alternative lesson planned in order to prepare for a scenario where technology fails or does nor work as expected.

Question 20

T or F: Teachers should nor vary technology usage.

Answer 20

F: Teacher should vary technology usage for the sake of variety and students engagement.

Question 21

What is an acquisition intervention?

Answer 21

Intervention focus on the idea that the task is too difficult for the student.

Question 22

What is motivation intervention?

Answer 22

Intervention focus on the idea that the student is no motivated to success-fully complete the task.

Question 23

What is proficiency intervention?

Answer 23

Intervention focus on the idea that the student needs more support to successfully complete the task.

Question 24

What is content-area literacy?

Answer 24

Content-area literacy is a focus on the idea of being able to successfully read content-area text.

Question 25

T or F: Motivation is related to academic needs.

Answer 25

F: Motivation is related to social and emotional needs.

Question 26

What are the four key components of the Adolescent Literacy Support frame-work?

Answer 26

Motivation
Literacy Strategies
Across the Curriculum
Organizational Support.

Question 27

What is an anticipation chart?

Answer 27

Teacher has students evaluate a list of content-are statements as being true or false. The teacher is using an anticipation chart to increase student interest and focus the instruction.

Question 28

Drill and practice is primarily used to?

Answer 28

Practice previously learned skills.