CITW 1-6

Which is not a recommendation for classroom practice usign cooperative learning?

• Include elements of both positive interdependence and individual accountability

• Keep group size small

• Allow time for comprehension testing

• Use cooperative learning consistently and systematically

There are four recommendations for setting objectives in the classroom. Which of the following is NOT correct?

• Set learning objectives that are specific but also restrictive

• Communicate the learning objectives to students and parents

• Connect the learning objectives to previous and future learning

• Engage studetns in setting personal learning objectives

What two strategies affect student variables?

• Classroom Management and Teacher Skill Level

• Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

• Providing Recognition and Immediate Feedback

• Reinforcing Effort and Student Achievement

On the table, Effort Rubric for Test Preparation, what section would, 'I skimmed through the text and looked at my notes', fall under?

• Good

• Unsatisfactory

• Emerging

• Excellent

Teachers can involve students in the feedback process by

• Involve the class as a whole

• Allowing the student to work it out on their own with context clues

• Stating their own objectives to help themselves to better understand the text

• Ask them to keep track of their performance as learning occurs during a unit or course

According to Thomas Friedman, in The World is Flat , who are the best collaborators?

• The best reinforcers

• The best cooperators

• The best producers

• The best companies

What is the purpose for Interpersonal and Small-Group Skills?

• Ensure that success by an individual promotes success among other group members.

• Ensure that all members clearly understand effective group skills.

• Promote group and individual reflection for maintenance of group effectiveness and success.

• Ensure that all members contribute to achievement of the goal and learn as individuals.

Which of the following is one of the three practices for reinforcing effort?

• Teach students about the relationship between effort and achievement

• Provide students with minimal guidance to allow the student to sink or float

• Allow students to give feedback to other students

• Ask students to give feedback to other students during a round table activity

What are cues and questions?

• Helps students access their prior knowledge and put that knowledge to use learning new information

• Allows the students to make predictions about the lesson by using context clues

• Has the students use elements of positive interdependence and individual accountability

• Employ cooperative learning by using small groups

Which of the following is an example of Analytic Questions for Constructing Support?

• What is the reasoning behind this perspective?

• How is this information

  misleading?

• Why would someone consider this to be good, bad or neutral?

• What is an argument that would support this claim?