Effective instruction

Why is feedback to students important?

• Allows the teacher to assess the situation

• Makes them question their work

• Helps students understand the subject matter and guides them to continue with their learning

• There aren't any real benefits in the long run

What does PBL stand for?

• Parental-biased learner

• Prodigal beginner lessons

• Problem-based learning

• Practice based learning

Questions for discussions should be:

• Focused towards one right answer

• High cognitive and challenging

• Teacher led

• Geared towards moderate levels of student participation

To encourage high level discussions:

• Have students defend their answers

• Encourage students to research facts and statistics

• Exclusively ask high level questions

• Use high level vocabulary in your communication

A pause between asking a question and accepting an answer, designed to allow students to mentally process the question and to formulate their replies

• Instructional methods
• Closure
• Skits
• Wait time

When a lesson is not engaging, what should the teacher do?

• Ask more lower level questions

• omit parts of the activity

• Modify the materials, lesson, or student groups

• Choose another lesson

High Level Questions:

• Encourage engagement

• Encourage learning

• Should be used often

• All of the above

What should a teacher do if a lesson is not going well?

• Move on to a different lesson

• Stop the lesson and play a video

• Continue teaching anyway

• Pick up on cues from students and adjust smoothly

What should a teacher do if her students are not understanding the content?

• Give up and have a work day

• Be persistent, try using other instructional strategies

• Keep doing things the same. Students should learn the material eventually.

• Switch to a different lesson plan

Questions designed to require more than a few words as an answer

• Open-ended questions
• Reflective responses
• Role playing
• Pacing