Chapter 7

Reflective teaching can be viewed as

• using past experience to improve planning.

• a technique for involving students in the planning of instruction.

• a team planning technique.

• decision-making that involves teachers, students, and parents.

The first step in lesson or unit planning ordinarily should be to

• organize the content.

• set up the objectives.

• prepare an advance organizer.

• select learning activities.

Probably the most important criterion when selecting a learning activity is:

• Is it interesting?

• Is it subject matter oriented?

• Is it suitable to the objective?

• Is it challenging enough?

Beginning teachers would be best advised to run

• loosely structured lessons.

• unstructured lessons.

• closely structured lesson.

• rigid lessons.

If you find that a plan is not working, what should you do?

• Give the students a study period.

• Stick by the plan no matter what.

• Switch to an alternative approach.

• Drop the plan and go on to the next topic.

The three key ingredients in a daily lesson plan are

• motivation guidelines, objectives, and an evaluation.

• test questions, attention getters, and teacher ideas.

• teacher activities, student activities, and content.

• the set induction, the lesson, and closure.

The main ideas to be covered during a lesson are outlined in the lesson plan

• rationale.

• objectives.

• content.

• introduction.