Affective filter

LMS

A learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.

TEKS Competencies

A properly labeled Competency will have number letter and distinguish which exam

Efforts to improve student learning

(most significant factor of student education is the teacher) Factors: Class Size Reduction Whole School Reform Re-vamp Class time (varied bell schedules, year-round schools, block schedules) Innovative Curriculum Traditional Curriculum (Back to Basics) Remediation Programs (Tracking, two-year algebra, etc.) Standards Based Education (Pacing Guides, Benchmark Test, Data Driven Decision-Making, etc.) High-stakes Accountability (Rewards, Sanctions, Differentiated Accountability) Choice (charter schools, magnet schools, etc.) Centralized Leadership and Policies (state or national) Professional Learning Communities

Backward Design

.Idea- of when designing your lesson plan that you start with the assessment (test, quiz, informal, lab, etc.) in mind.

YAG

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Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)

A committee composed of the parent, administrator, assessment personnel, regular education teacher, special education teacher, and other pertinent representatives who meet on a regular basis to make decisions in regard to admission, services, and dismissal from special education.

SCHEMA

IS thought of as initial thought provoker or way of drawing interest (hook)

Factors that Influence Student Learning

Parent Education Economics Language Acquisition Ethnicity

Cognitive Demand

Students are expected to make connections, relate ideas within the content or among content areas, and select or devise one approach among many alternatives on how the situation can be solved. Due to the complexity of cognitive demand, it often requires an extended period of time. At this level, students typically identify a problem, plan a course of action, enact that plan, and make decisions based on collected data. Usually involves more time than one class period. Multiple solutions are possible. Students often connect multiple content areas to come up with unique and creative solutions.

TCMPC

Texas Curriculum Management Program Cooperative

TEAMS

Texas Educating Adults Management System The current web-based management information system for adult education in Texas. The system is made up of data collected according state and federal definitions and is entered by local Adult Education providers who receive state and federal adult education funds. Adult education services are provided to persons beyond compulsory education (adults) who need adult basic education and do not have a high school diploma or need to learn to speak English. TEAMS produces adult education state and federal reports.

Modifications

applies to the whole class

No Child Left Behind NCLB

requires assessments to "measure the depth and breadth of the state academic content standards for a given grade level".

Inquiry Based Education

starts with the students thinking for themselves (not giving them the answer) Idea is that it is brief; not an 8 minute video

Problem Based Learning

students acquire knowledge and deepen their understanding as a result of developing solutions to real life problems.

Inquiry Based

traditionally behaviorist methods would involve lecture before lab, now the idea has switched to having students produce the lab, and with some scaffolding (sort of guiding questioning) have students find their own solutions

Summative Assessment

Assessment data collected after instruction to evaluate a student's mastery of the curriculum objectives and a teacher's effectiveness at instructional delivery.

Bloom's Taxonomy vs DOK

Blooms Taxonomy is all about the verb while (Depth of Knowledge is NOT determined by the verb (Bloom's Taxonomy), but by the context in which the verb is used and the depth of thinking required.

ISP's

Initial Skills Profile is the evaluation (rubric) of your students at the beginning of the school year.

IFD

Institute for Faculty Development

Four Levels of DOK

Level 1: Recall and Reproduction Following simple steps, recipes, or directions. Can be difficult without requiring reasoning. At DOK 1, students find "the right answer," and there is no debating the "correctness," it is either right or wrong. Level 2:Skills and Concepts Requires comparison of two or more concepts, finding similarities and differences, applying factual learning at the basic skill level. Main ideas - requires deeper knowledge than just the definition. Students must explain "how" or "why" and often estimate or interpret to respond. Level 3:Strategic Thinking Students must reason or plan to find an acceptable solution to a problem. More than one correct response or approach is possible. Requires complex or abstract thinking, and application of knowledge or skill in a new and unique situation. Level 4:Extended Thinking , students typically identify a problem, plan a course of action, enact that plan, and make decisions based on collected data. Usually involves more time than one class period. Multiple solutions are possible. Students often connect multiple content areas to come up with unique and creative solutions.

PLAAFP

Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance

TEKS (process, readiness, and supporting)

Process (non-content) Readiness (content, highly tested) Supporting (content, tested with not as many questions as readiness)

Formative Assessment

Refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course. ... In other words, formative assessments are for learning, while summative assessments are of learning.

Horizontal Integration

Refers to the provision of learning within the structure where individual departments/subject areas contribute to the development and delivery of learning in a meaningful, holistic manner.

TSPs- Targeted Skills Profile is the evaluation

Rubric of your students at the end of the school year. Students skills can improve during the year, but maintain the same evaluation status because the TSPs should show improved rigor. You will manually type and upload both into Eduphoria by a predetermined date in October.

Think Pair Share (TPS)

Think ...about why there is a 15% variability difference in student achievement between teachers within the same schools. Pair ...with a shoulder partner Share I think the reason for a 15% variability difference is...

Spiraling

When you are an 8th grade teacher, you need to make sure your students not only learn ALL the material in 8th grade but you are also responsible for reviewing or "spiraling" all the content that they will be tested on 8th grade test covers grades 6-8 5th grade test covers grades K-5 This is important because even though you are teaching 8th grade you need to make sure they learned everything in 6th and 7th!

Behaviorism

a teacher-centered approach where you listen, that's how you learn

Scaffolding

building upon student's prior knowledge, provides successive levels of temporary support, teaching to a level just above a student's capability (ideally to raise them up slowly to the level they need to be at.)

CCRP

college and career readiness planner

Rigor

describes the result of work that challenges students' thinking in new and interesting ways. Promoting it in the classroom requires expectations and experiences that are academically, intellectually, and personally challenging.

Vertical Alignment

designed to demonstrate the vertical alignment of the state standards (TEKS) throughout the grade levels and provide further clarity of the depth and complexity of the standard

Vertical alignment

designed to demonstrate the vertical alignment of the state standards (TEKS) throughout the grade levels and provide further clarity of the depth and complexity of the standards.

Student Learning Objectives(SLO's)

explains itself.

Texas Teacher and Evaluation Support System (T-TESS)

idea of the T-TESS is to focus on AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT. This means you will think of an area you can improve on and an area your students can improve on, then prove within a year that you and your students have shown improvement. (80% self-assessment 20% Student Growth)

Multiple Intelligences

idea that people vary in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill.

Affective Filter

is a metaphor that describes a learner's attitudes that affect the relative success of second language acquisition. Negative feelings such as lack of motivation, lack of self-confidence and learning anxiety act as filters that hinder and obstruct language learning.

Schema

is thought of as initial thought provoker or way of drawing interest. (hook)

Eduphoria

is used by teachers and administrators to see student achievement data, including TAKS tests, CBAs, and other assessments. ...

Schoology

learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and corporations that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources.

Accommodations

limited to a specific student

504

name of the meeting and label

Horizontal Integration

refers to the provision of learning within the structure where individual departments/subject areas contribute to the development and delivery of learning in a meaningful, holistic manner.

Project Based Learning

students work on real, meaningful problems beyond those of everyday life and create tangible products

ZPD

the difference a learner can do with and without help.

Pedagogy

the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing