Teaching for Learning Flashcards
What is an Instructional objective?
clear & unambiguous description of your educational intentions for your students.
a good objective has three parts- the intended student behavoir, conditions under which the behavior will occur, and the criteria for acceptable performance.
What are the levels of planning, and how do they affect teaching?
by the year, term, unit, week, and day. All levels must be coordinated. Accomplishing the year’s plan requires breaking the work into terms, the terms into units, and the units into weeks and days. The plan determines how time and materials will be turned into activities for students. There is no single model of planning, but all plans should allow for flexibility
Describe teacher-centered and student-centered planning.
teachers select learning objectives and plan how to get students to meet those objectives
Teachers control the “what” and “how” of learning
what are the general characteristics of good teaching?
teachers who provide clear presentations and explanations tend to have students who learn more and who rate their teachers more positively.
warmth, friendliness, and understanding seem to be the traits most strongly related to positive student attitudes
What is direct instruction?
appropriate for teaching basic skills and explicit knowledge. it inlcudes the teaching functions of review/overview, presentation, guided pratice, feedback, and correctives, independent pratice, and periodic reviews
How can wait time affect student learning?
when teachers learn to pose a question, then wait 3 to 5 seconds before calling on a student to answer, students tend to give longer answers; more students are likely to participate, ask questions, and volunteer appropriate answers
What are the uses and disadvantages of group discussion?
helps students participate directly, express themselves clearly. justify opinions, and tolerate different views.
gives students a chance to ask for clarification, examine their own thinking, follow personal interests, and assume responsibility by taking leadership roles in the group.
they are quite unpredictable and may easily digress into exchanges of ignorance
