Instructional Strategies

Question 1

What are three classroom practices for reinforcing effort?

Answer 1

1. Teach about the relationship between effort and achievement.
2. Teach students what effort means and looks like.
3. Ask students to keep track of their effort and achievement

Question 2

What are the three classroom practices for cooperative learning?

Answer 2

1. Include elements of positive interdependence and individual accountability.
2. Keep Group sizes small
3. Use cooperative learning consistently and systematically.

Question 3

How often should cooperative learning take place?

Answer 3

It’s most effective when used at least once a week, but should also allow plenty of time for students to practice skills independently as well.

Question 4

Advance Organizers

Answer 4

Advance organizers are used to help introduce and engage students in new material by linking it with their prior knowledge. Presented at the beginning of a lesson as an overview of what will be learned.

Question 5

What are the four classroom practices for cues and questions?

Answer 5

1. Focus on what is important.
2. Use explicit cues
3. Ask inferential questions
4. Ask Analytic Questions

Question 6

Inferential questions

Answer 6

Questions that require students to use reasoning and critical thinking skills while making connections and drawing conclusions about a concept using prior knowledge to fill in missing information.

Question 7

Analytic Questions

Answer 7

Questions that require students to break down the concept and examine or evaluate it closely to solve a problem. Usually asking why or how.

Question 8

What are the 3 types of analytic questions

Answer 8

Analyzing errors, constructing support, and analyzing perspectives

Question 9

What are the 4 advance organizers?

Answer 9

Expository, narrative, skimming, and graphic.

Question 10

Expository Advance Organizer

Answer 10

It involves the teacher communicating what is to be learned by telling them the goal of the lesson, or in written form such as an anticipation guide, providing definitions or rubrics.

Question 11

Narrative Advance Organizer

Answer 11

The topic of the lesson is communicated through a story, either read to students by the teacher, a video, or a personal story.

Question 12

Skimming

Answer 12

Students quickly look over the text to get a general idea of its contents as they make predictions about new learning.

Question 13

Graphic Advance Organizers

Answer 13

A graphic organizer presented at the beginning of a lesson to communicate in graphic form what students will learn and provides them with a visual structure for the information.

Question 14

Nonlinguistic Representation

Answer 14

Represengint information in a way other than with words such as mental images, illustrations, physical models, and kinesthetic activities.

Question 15

What are the 5 ways knowledge can be represented non-linguistically?

Answer 15

Graphic organizers, physical models/manipulatives, mental pictures, pictures, illustrations and pictographs, and kinesthetic activities