Classroom Instruction That Works: Ch1-6

What is the best way to communicate learning objectives to your students?

• In writing

• All answers are correct

• Stating them verbally

• Calling attention to them throughout the lesson

What is the goal for providing feedback to your students?

• To compare them to their classmates

• To tell them what you think about them

• To have the students make corrections

• Improve their performance and understand themselves better as learners

Which is NOT a recommendation for providing feedback?

• Provide timely feedback

• Provide grade of others for comparison

• Engage students in the feedback process

• Address what is correct and elaborate on the next steps

Reinforcing ______________ is a process that involves explicitly teaching students about the relationship between ____________ and achievement.

• effort; success

• effort; effort

• achievement; success

• achievement; effort

Which of these is one of the practices for reinforcing effort?

• Showing students that success means everything

• Teaching students about the relationship between effort and achievement

• Teach that poor grades mean poor effort

• Teaching that achievement is all about talent

Having students keep track of their effort and achievement does all of the following EXCEPT...

• Helps students know when to give up

• Helps students focus on the learning objective

• Helps students monitor their progress toward achieving and objectives

• Helps students focus on what it takes to achieve an objective

Instructional strategy is based off the theory that learning can be maximized through well-designed, intentional and social interaction with others. This was theorized by who?

• Maslow

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Erickson

Which of the following is one of the recommendations for classroom practice that uses cooperative learning?

• Include elements of both positive interdependence and individual accountability

• Keep groups size small

• Use cooperative learning consistently and systematically

• All fo the above

What is the recommended size of groups in cooperative learning?

• 3

• No more than 5

• Between 5 and 10

• 7

Effective ___________ and ____________ help students access their prior knowledge and put that knowledge to use in learning new objectives.

• question; answers

• cues; questions

• reviews; assessments

• cues; hints