Test 3 (Ch 5-8) Flashcards
Do Now
Use a short warm-up activity that students can complete without instruction or direction from you to start class every day. This lets the learning start even before you begin teaching.
Name the Steps
Break down complex tasks into steps that form a path for student mastery.
Board = Paper
Model and shape how students should take notes in order to capture information you present.
Control the Game
Ask students to read aloud frequently, but manage the process to ensure expressiveness, accountability, and engagement.
Circulate
Move strategically around the room during all parts of the lesson.
At Bats
Because succeeding once or twice at a skill won’t bring mastery, give your students lots and lots of practice mastering knowledge or skills.
Exit Ticket
End each class with an explicit assessment of your objective that you can use to evaluate your (and your students’) success.
Change the Pace
Establish a productive pace in your classroom. Create “fast” or “slow” movements in a lesson by shifting activity types or formats.
Brighten Lines
Ensure that changes in activities and other mileposts are perceived clearly by making beginnings and endings of activities visible and crisp.
All Hands
Leverage hand raising to positively impact pacing. Manage and vary the ways that students raise their hands, as well as the methods you use to call on them.
Work the Clock
Measure time - your greatest resource as a teacher - intentionally, strategically, and often visibly to shape both your and your students’ experience in the classroom.
Every Minute Matters
Respect students’ time by spending every minute productively.
Wait Time
Allow students time to think before answering. If they aren’t productive with that time, narrate them toward being more productive.
Cold Call
Call on students regardless of whether they’ve raised their hands.
Call and Response
Ask your class to answer questions in unison from time to time to build energetic, positive engagement.
Break it Down
When a student makes an error, provide just enough help to allow her to “solve” as much of the original problem as she can.
Pepper
Use Pepper as a fast-paced, vocal review to build energy and actively engage your class.
Everybody Writes
Prepare your students to engage rigorously by giving them the chance to reflect in writing before you ask them to discuss.
Art of the Sentence
Ask students to synthesize a complex idea in a single, well-crafted sentence. The discipline of having to make one sentence do all the work pushes students to use new syntactical forms.
Show Call
Create a strong incentive to complete writing with quality and thoughtfulness by publicly showing and revising student writing - regardless of who volunteers to share.
Build Stamina
Gradually increase writing time to develop in your students the habit of writing productively, and the ability to do it for sustained periods of time.
Front the Writing
Arrange lessons so that writing comes earlier in the process to ensure that students think rigorously in writing.
