Parent Teacher Communication Flashcards
Formative Evaluation:
Use of evaluation information for supplying feedback to students before or during the learning process and for promoting learning.
Gifted and Talented Students (G/T):
Learners with exceptional general intellect, specific academic ability, creative productive thinking, leadership ability, or visual and performing arts talents.
Goals:
Broad statements of instructional intent that describe the general purpose of instruction.
Graphic Organizer:
Pictorial or graphic ways to organize written or oral information.
Halting Time:
Teacher’s pause in talking, used for giving students time to think about presented materials and directions.
Heuristic Approach:
Active, reflective teaching methods that involve students in problem solving and comprise modes of discovery, inquiry (including Richard Suchman inquiry), and simulations and games.
I-Messages:
Teacher messages that tell students how the teacher feels about problem situations and implicitly as for corrected behavior.
Individualized Instruction:
Instructional method in which instruction is tailored to interests, needs and abilities of individual students.
Inductive Thinking:
Thinking that asks students to make generalizations based on knowledge of specific examples and details.
Informal Objectives:
Statements f instructional intent that are an abbreviation of instructional objectives with only the performance and product specified.
Formal Curriculum:
School learning experiences that are intentional
Infusion Approach:
Method of teaching thinking skills in which desired skill is used in conjunction with and incorporated into regular curriculum.
Inner Discipline:
Ability to control one’s own behavior and make responsible decisions.
Inquiry:
Instructional method that focuses on the flexible yet systematic process of problem solving.
Inquiry Demonstration:
Instructional method in which students are asked to only to observe in silence.
