TLAC 3.0 Chapter 1-6

A mental model is a framework that people use to understand complex environments.

• True

• False

What is exemplar planning?

• • Model planning.

• • The process of going back through the lesson plan and thinking how it would look in a specific classroom.

• • Taking out time before a lesson to write out answers to each question a teacher would hope a top student would come up with.

• • Anticipating specific mistakes teachers think they’re likely to see from students when teaching.

What are some types of Active Observation?

• • When a teacher tracks progress of and give immediate feedback to each individual student, also known as “Aggressive Monitoring”.

• • Teacher gives feedback to the group after tracking and completing observations (and does not provide individual feedback during observing).

• • Teacher gives feedback (and makes observations) focused on specific individuals (and not the whole group).

• • It occurs when learners recall and apply multiple examples of previously learned knowledge or skills after a period of forgetting.

 What is Technique 16: Right Is Right?

• • A technique that rewards right answers with harder questions.

• • A technique on how to respond in a way that is most beneficial to students when the answer is almost right.

• • A technique where a student that is unable or unwilling to answer ends with a return in which the student answers successfully the result is progress toward mastery. 

• • A technique that seeks to establish routines that cause students to focus their attention during class and build stronger attentional habits.

What is FASE Reading (formerly known as Control the Game)?

• • A technique that describes rules and habits for a teacher’s strategic and intentional movement around the room during all parts of a lesson.

• • A technique when a teacher can collect data from students before they leave and review the data.

• • Asking students to expand answers into full phrases or complete sentences to ensure they get extensive oral practice at sentence and complete syntax formation.

• • A system for student read-alouds that maximizes the value and viability of this crucial activity that allows a teacher to build on students’ fluency in and enjoyment of reading.

• When students engage in activities that involve more extensive back-and-forth with the teacher, practicing the use or application of knowledge, they are engaged in ________________.

• A well-developed ______ memory is the solution to the limitations of a working memory. 

What are the benefits to planning for error?

• • It helps treat one’s observations like data.

• • The process of going back through the lesson plan and thinking how it would look in a specific classroom.

• • If a teacher practices anticipating what students will struggle with during their planning.

• • It will help a teacher take more productive action if they observe misunderstandings.

What is Technique 10: Show Me?

• • Students actively present the teacher with visual evidence of their understanding.

• • It occurs when learners recall and apply multiple examples of previously learned knowledge or skills after a period of forgetting.

• • Choosing a student’s work and sharing it, visually, with the class so they are not just talking about it but studying it in a durable sustained way.

• • Designing materials and space so that you're looking predictably—in the same, consistent place every time—for the data you need.

What is Grammatical format within the technique Format Matters?

• • Asking students to expand answers into full phrases or complete sentences to ensure they get extensive oral practice at sentence and complete syntax formation.

• • Reminding students to speak audibly.

• • Asking students to phrase (or rephrase) their answers in Standard English.

• • Preparing students for some of the particular demands of college and university by pushing for comfort not just with “Standard English” but the form of language, more formal and distinctive still, frequently encountered in an academic setting.