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Glossary of teaching terms

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does collaboration mean?

a)

Working on a large project

b)

Working with one or more colleagues

c)

Doing activities with other people

d)

Working with one or more colleagues to achieve a common goal

2.

What is formal assessment?

a)

Evaluating student performance using a structured activity such as a written test.

b)

Evaluating student learning to help you design further learning tasks

c)

Evaluating student performance through unstructured activities such as observation checklists

d)

All the suggestions

3.

What is formative assessment?

a)

Evaluating student learning to help you design further learning tasks

b)

Evaluating student performance using a structured activity such as a written test.

c)

Evaluating student performance through unstructured activities such as observation checklists

d)

All of the suggestions

4.

What does curriculum content refer to?

a)

What students are expected to learn

b)

What teachers are expected to teach.

c)

Knowledge, skills and understandings

d)

All of the suggestions

5.

What is a mentor?

a)

A teacher

b)

An experienced person who helps another person learn

c)

A colleague

d)

A peer

6.

What are stages of learning?

a)

Levels of learning aligned to the age or development of students

b)

A computer program

c)

A theatre for school children

d)

The curriculum documents

7.

What does demonstrate mean?

a)

To carry out an activity in class

b)

To show that you understand something

c)

To work on a task with a group of people

d)

To protest about something that is unjust

8.

What does effective teaching practices mean?

a)

Teaching strategies that result in high quality learning; backed up by research.

b)

Teaching strategies that keep students quiet

c)

Teaching strategies that keep students on task

d)

Teaching strategies that keep students busy

9.

What does ICT stand for?

a)

Information and Collaborative Technology

b)

Indigenous and Community Treaties

c)

Information and Community Techniques

d)

Information and Communication Technologies

10.

What is a colleague?

a)

A school based tutor

b)

A pre-service teacher

c)

A mentor

d)

All the suggestions

11.

What is a subject?

a)

The facts

b)

The person you are speaking to

c)

A topic you are testing

d)

A specific body of learning described in the curriculum

12.

What is evidence?

a)

Surveys and observation checklists

b)

Students written work

c)

Something found at a crime scene

d)

Reliable data this can be used to show that learning has happened