Module 3 ( Strategies for Success)

What is Non-Linguistic Representation?

(also called Graphic Organizers) are visual maps that organize new information and help students see relationships and patterns in learning. Non-linguistic refers to the process of storing information through imagery.

What are the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy?

-----------------------------(Top) Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember ----------------------------(Bottom)

What are the 4 types of Flexible Grouping?

1.) Homogeneous Grouping 2.) Heterogeneous Grouping 3.) Individualized or Independent Study 4.) Whole-Class

What are the 6 instructions to Tier Instruction?

1.) Identify the standards, or concepts, you want the students to learn. 2.) Decide if students have the background necessary to be successful with the lesson. 3.) Assess the students' readiness, interest, and learning profiles. 4.) Create an activity or project that is clearly focused on the standard, or the concepts of the lesson. 5.) Adjust the activity to provide different levels or tiers of difficulty that will lead all students to an understanding. 6.) Develop an assessment component for the lesson.

What are the top four techniques to teach Vocabulary skills?

1.) Repetitive exposure to words 2.) Learning vocabulary words prior to reading text 3.) Indirect learning of vocabulary (using vocab in different contexts) 4.) Learning Vocab in both written text and oral speech

What are the 5 keys to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)?

1.) Self-Awareness 2.) Self-Management 3.) Social-Awareness 4.) Relationship Skills 5.) Responsible Decision Making

What are the 4 strategies to help make Differentiated Instruction work?

1.) Tiered Instruction 2.) Anchoring Activities 3.) Flexible Grouping 4.) Compacting Curriculum

What are Advanced Organizers

A tool used at the introduction of new material (PRIOR to teaching the new content) and connects the new learning to prior learning. It gives the student a "preview" of what they will be learning and connects the new learning to what they already know, allowing students to build on that prior knowledge (scaffolding).

What are Word Walls?

A word wall is a designated location in the classroom where the teacher posts words which are useful when working with students that are learning to read to trying to understand complex vocab.

Describe Relationship Skills for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Ability to have meaningful relationship with others, being able to communicate one's emotions and feelings to others. Work with others. How to handle conflict.

Describe Self-Awareness for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Ability to identify emotions, to be able to tie thoughts and feelings to behaviors Reflection is key because a lot of young students/ adolescents don't have complete control over all their feelings yet.

Describe Self-Management for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Ability to self-motivate and have self-control one's emotions Ex- taking a break, count to 5

What is Student Choice?

Allows students to make selections on activities that are compatible with their learning style.

What is Formative Assessment?

An informal process that allows teachers to make an informed, prescriptive decision about the process of instruction. Provides teachers with continual information about what students know and don't know.

Why are word walls so important?

Because the word wall can show patterns, such as how to use the words Cómo (how?) vs. Como (I eat) in the proper context. The word wall serves as a visual reference during the unit of learning.

What is Tiered Instruction?

Changing the level of complexity or required readiness of a task or unit of study in order to meet the developmental needs of the students involved.

Explain Heterogeneous Grouping

Cluster of students with different abilities, levels or interest. Good for promoting creative thinking.

Explain Homogeneous Grouping

Clusters students of similar abilities, level, learning style, or interest. Usually based on some type of pre-assessment

Describe Responsible Decision- Making for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Considering the wellness for one's self and others, evaluating consequences

What is Compacting Curriculum

Curriculum compacting is a technique for differentiating instruction that allows teachers to make adjustments to the curriculum for students who have already mastered the material to be learned, replacing content students know with new content, enrichment options, or other activities. This can be achieved by pre-testing basic concepts or using performance assessment methods.

Describe Social-Awareness for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Embracing diversity, showing empathy for others

Explain Individualized or Independent Study Grouping

Grouping which is self-paced learning, teaches time management and responsibility and good for remediation or extensions

What are Anchor Activities?

Independent, ongoing activities that students work on at any time when they have completed primary assignments. Anchor activities serve two very important purposes: they help with classroom management, and they promote learning.

Explain Evaluate from Bloom's Taxonomy

Involves putting together elements to create a new concept. Evaluation uses verbs like critique, categorize, collaborate, combine, contrast, formulate, integrate, reorganize, and revise.

Explain Analyze from Bloom's Taxonomy

Is the breakdown of information so that the individual parts and relationships are made clear. Analyzation uses verbs like diagram, differentiate, illustrate, infer, prioritize, correlate.

Describe the Community aspect of a classroom environment that supports differentiation

It enables students to take risks necessary to try new, challenging activities and to work well with their peers. In an environment that supports differentiation, classroom management policies, procedures, and rules are firmly in place so that students can operate in a safe and familiar framework.

What is Cooperative Learning?

It is groups of students that work together to complete learning tasks and foster collaboration. For group learning to be productive, groups must be created with intention, have a clear direction for learning and assessment, and has defined roles for participants.

What does it mean to create a classroom environment that supports differentiation? What are the 2 aspects of this?

It means to create a classroom environment that supports the differentiated activities that you have designed for your students. There are two aspects to this environment: the physical space and the community within that space.

What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

It's the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

What is Flexible Grouping?

Purposeful collaborative groups that allow teachers to match students to necessary tasks and skill levels. This allows students to be appropriately challenged and avoids labeling a student's readiness as a static state. It is important to permit movement between groups because interest changes as we move from one subject to another

Explain Apply from Bloom's Taxonomy

Refers to the use of abstractions and a transfer into a new situation. The application-level uses verbs like chart, collect, predict, produce, provide, report, solve, use.

Describe the Physical aspect of a classroom environment that supports differentiation

The physical space needs to be set up so that students can move around easily as they go from task to task and be comfortable. In an environment that supports differentiation, classroom management policies, procedures, and rules are firmly in place so that students can operate in a safe and familiar framework.

What is Transparent Learning for Students?

The process of making sure that students participate in the differentiation to develop confidence, and self-disciplined learners. Students should be aware of their learning preferences and various strategies to implement to be able to demonstrate mastery.

What is Individualized Instruction?

The process of tailoring your lessons to meet specific needs of individual students. Should take into account student readiness, student interests, and student learning preferences. (This is not mean creating a seperate lesson plan for each student)

What is Effective Feedback?

The process of teachers responding to student performance. Must be timely, should not be critical, judgmental or harsh. Should be brief and to the point while being geared to help students improve. After feedback, students should have a clear idea of what they are supposed to do to improve their work.

What is Instructional Scaffolding?

The process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The teacher does this by systematically building on students' experiences and knowledge as they are learning new skills.

What are Anchoring Activities?

These are activities that a student may do at any time when they have completed their present assignment or when the teacher is busy with other students. They may relate to specific needs or enrichment opportunities, including problems to solve or journals to write. They could also be part of a long-term project.

What are Respectful Tasks

These assignments recognize and honor students' learning differences, while being appropriate and fair. It is recommended that teachers keep a list of standard games / activities that appeal to your students. Teachers should ensure not only that each task is appropriate and fair but also that they have taken a proactive approach in determining how best to accommodate student needs.

Explain Whole-Class Grouping

This grouping is best used for efficient way to present new content and for initial instruction

What is Planned Implementation of Feedback?

This is the process of providing students with TIME to implement suggestions offered by the teacher. It is necessary to plan a routine that you want students to follow as soon as they receive feedback

Explain Create from Bloom's Taxonomy

This level of questioning involves judgment based on criteria. Creating uses verbs like generate, conclude, produce, decide, defend, justify, support.

Explain Remember from Bloom's Taxonomy

This level of questioning involves the recall of fact and learning and uses verbs like define, describe, identify, label, list, match, name, select.

What is tiered instruction?

This strategy allows the teacher to categorize every aspect of the lesson into one of three tiers. This strategy requires teachers to identify the skills and concepts of the lesson and group students into 3 groups based on their knowledge of the concept: struggling students, students who may just need a little more practice, and advanced students.

Explain Understand from Bloom's Taxonomy

Understand refers to a level of understanding that shows the individual knows what has been taught and can make use of the material without necessarily relating it to other content. This level uses verbs like classify, estimate, explain, paraphrase, summarize.

What is Student Reflection?

When students can think about strategies that work best for them, they are more likely to remain engaged and it helps them to understand the purpose of their work. This process may not come naturally for students and must be modeled to demonstrate the type of thought that is expected.

Describes Bloom's Lower Level Thinking skills

When you ask questions that involve the lower three levels, Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application - these questions are considered lower-level thinking questions. When you ask these types of questions, you typically require students to recall, recite, and regurgitate information simply

Describes Bloom's Higher Level Thinking skills

When you ask questions that involve the upper three levels: Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation, these questions are considered higher-level thinking questions. When you ask these types of questions, you prompt students to go beyond simple recall of information and require them to apply information.

What is the Frayer Model? And what are the four parts?

a graphical organizer used for word analysis and vocabulary building. This four-square model prompts students to think about and describe the meaning of a word or concept by making connections to other concepts and vocabulary words. The Four parts: 1.) Defining the term 2.) Describing its essential characteristics 3.) Providing examples of the idea 4.) Offering non-examples of the idea

What is Differentiated Instruction?

a technique you can use to break down the curriculum to make it understandable to all students. That means doing what's fair for all students, like creating multiple paths so that students of different abilities, interests, or learning needs experience equal but appropriate ways to learn.

Why is Language Development important?

because allows for higher levels of thinking and better expression

What is Reading Comprehension?

the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows