wk 14 terms

Question 1

lesson study

Answer 1

as a group, teachers develop, test, improve, and retest lessons until they are satisfied with the final version

Question 2

instructional objectives

Answer 2

clear statements of what students are intended to learn through instruction

Question 3

taxonomy

Answer 3

Developed by Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues to initially improve post-secondary exams, and now has impacted all education levels around the world. A classification system of educational objectives divided into three domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor, which behaviours occur simultaneously. Blooms taxonomy consists of six basic objectives: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Question 4

cognitive domain

Answer 4

In Bloom’s taxonomy, memory and reasoning objectives

Question 5

affective domain

Answer 5

objectives focusing on attitudes and feelings

Question 6

psychmotor domain

Answer 6

realm of physical ability and coordination objectives

Question 7

direct instruction or explicit teaching

Answer 7

systematic instruction for mastery of basic skills, facts, and information

Question 8

advance organizer

Answer 8

statement of inclusive concepts to introduce and sum up material that follows

Question 9

scripted cooperation

Answer 9

learning strategy in which two students take turns summarizing material and criticizing summaries

Question 10

seatwork

Answer 10

independent classroom work

Question 11

convergent questions

Answer 11

questions that have a single correct answer

Question 12

divergent questions

Answer 12

questions that have no single correct answer

Question 13

differentiated instruction

Answer 13

teaching that takes into account students’ abilities, prior knowledge, and challenges so that instruction matches not only the subject being taught but also students’ needs

Question 14

Within-class ability grouping

Answer 14

system of grouping in which students in a class are divided into two to three groups based on ability in attempt to accommodate student differences

Question 15

flexible grouping

Answer 15

grouping and regrouping students based on learning needs

Question 16

adaptive teaching

Answer 16

provides all students with challenging instruction and uses supports when needed, but remove these supports as students become able to handle more on their own

Question 17

pygmalion effect

Answer 17

exceptional progress by a student as a result of high teacher expectations for that student; named for the mythological king Pygmalion, who made a statue, than caused it to be brought to life

Question 18

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 18

a groundless expectation that is confirmed because it has been expected

Question 19

sustaining expectation effect

Answer 19

student performance maintained at a certain level because teachers do not recognize improvements

Question 20

pedagogical content knowledge

Answer 20

teacher knowledge that combines mastery of academic content with knowing how to teach the content and how to match instruction to student differences