Terms

Question 1

What is a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result (i.e., having students answer questions, or pairing and sharing are strategies for engaged learning)

Answer 1

Strategy

Question 2

A way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps); a broad instructional approach

Answer 2

Method

Question 3

Activities that engage students to develop, practice, and apply skills and knowledge related to a specific learning goal. Connects to prior knowledge.

Answer 3

Learning task

Question 4

A set of learning tasks and lessons that build one upon another toward a central focus, with a clearly defined beginning and end.

Answer 4

Learning segment

Question 5

A description of the important understandings and core concepts that you want students to develop within the learning segment.

Answer 5

Central focus

Question 6

the means by which students develop and express content understandings.

Answer 6

Academic language

Question 7

Specific ways that academic language is used by students to participate in learning tasks through reading, writing, listening, and speaking to demonstrate their disciplinary understanding

Answer 7

Language demands