CITW Review Ch 1-6

Which of these are not one of the four recommendations for setting objectives in the classroom?

• Allow students to choose learning objectives for another student

• Communicate learning objectives to students and parents

• Connect the learning objective to previous or future learning

• Set learning objectives that are specific, but not restrictive

When you are providing opportunities for students to personalize the learning objectives, having them complete a KWL chart is helpful. What does KWL stand for?

• I know it all. What do you mean? And listen to me.

• What they know, what they want to know, and what they learned

• Knock. Wait. Learn

• You should know this! Why do I need to re-teach this? If you’re listening, you’re learning.

There are four recommendations when you are providing feedback for your students which of the following is not recommended?

• Provide corrective feedback

• Provide feedback appropriately in time to meet students needs

• Feedback that is provided needs to be criterion referenced

• Involve parents in the feedback process

Chapter 2 focuses on two strategies that are related to motivation, they are:

• Making straight A’s and being popular

• Being a good friend, and listening to the teacher

• Reinforcing effort, and providing recognition

• Working hard and making sure everyone knows

Which of the following is not a good practice for reinforcing effort in the classroom?

• Providing students with explicit guidance on what it means to expand effort

• Providing students with ineffective feedback

• Teaching students the relationship between effort and achievement

• Asking students to keep track of their effort and achievemend

Providing recognition can help a student, stay motivated and build their confidence which of the following is a recommended practice for providing recognition?

• Use concrete symbols of recognition

• Promote an environment where students know what they need to do in order to succeed

• Provide praise that is aligned with only positive behaviors

• Keep praise symbol and specific

Using _ _ helps, teachers lay the foundation for student success.

• Positive reinforcement

• Cooperative learning

• Learning objectives

• Independent learning

According to Johnson and Johnson, select the two elements considered to be most essential for an activity to be considered a cooperative learning activity.

• Positive interdependence

• Group processing

• Individual accountability

• Interpersonal and small group skills

• Face to face promotive interaction

When organizing, cooperative learning opportunities in your class, how many students should be grouped together?

• No more than three

• 5 to 7 students

• Divide your class in half

• No more than five

Effective cues and questions are intra-goal to helping students remember previous knowledge. All of the following choices are examples of fine-tuning these cues and questions, except for…

• Ask students personal questions

• Use explicit cues

• Ask inferential questions

• Focus on what’s important