Teach Like a Champion 2.0 Ch. 1-3

What method of questioning is effective?

• Self-report

• Yes or no

• Open-ended

• Rhetorical

What is the difference between self-report and self-monitoring?

• Self-report is talking to yourself, and self-monitoring is watching yourself.

• Self-report is only concerning yourself with moving on in the lesson, and self-monitoring is checking for understanding.

• Self-report is reporting issues within your instruction, and self monitoring is changing the issues yourself.

• Self-report is reporting issues with students work, and self-monitoring is reporting issues with your instruction.

What is targeted questioning?

• A quick series of carefully chosen, open-ended questions directed at a strategic sample of the class.

• Questions that are specifically chosen for a single student in the classroom.

• A quick series of carefully chosen close-ended questions directed at a strategic sample of the class.

• Questions that are specifically chosen for all members of the class to target specific learning disabilities.

What are reliability and validity?

• Reliability is ensuring that your students can be trusted, and validity is making sure your students are secure in their decisions.

• Reliability is ensuring that your students are in class on time, and validity is ensuring your students do not lie to you.

• Reliability is ensuring the work is turned in on time, and validity is ensuring the students did their own work.

• Reliability is ensuring the material is represented in a way that shows mastery if correct, and validity is ensuring the test measures what is claims to measure.

What is affirmative checking?

• Checking students work at the end of the semester to ensure they completed everything due for the course.

• Checking students GPA to check that they are ready for the coursework.

• Inserting specific points in your lesson when students must get confirmation that their work is correct.

• Inserting specific points into each lesson when students have the option to have their work checked.

What is a "culture of error"?

• An environment where students feel safe making and discussing mistakes.

• A culture created by educators that punish wrong answers.

• A culture created by students where wrong answers are hidden.

• An environment where students do not feel safe making and discussing mistakes.

Why should you create a "culture of error"?

• It will incentivize students to work harder through fear tactics.

• It will incentivize students to hide their wrong answers.

• It will create an environment of understanding and educational growth.

• It will create an environment of stress, thus making students work harder.

What does it mean to excavate an error?

• To hold a student after class and yell at them until they tell you what the issue is.

• To go to a mine, and dig out a rare stone known as an error.

• Digging into errors for the purpose of bettering instruction.

• Making students dig into their own errors on their own in detention.

What does it mean for students to "own and track"?

• It means students should aspire to own a racetrack.

• It means students should keep track of their grades.

• It means students should take ownership of their bad grades.

• It means students should correct and revise their own work to create accountability for the correct answer.

Why should you withhold the answer?

• It encourages students to focus on why the answer is right, and not which answer is right.

• Students should do the work themselves and not have the answer handed to them.

• Students need to do the work before being given the answer.

• It encourages students to rely less on the teacher and more on their own abilities.