WorksheetsSeries 2000 Performance Task
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 56mins
The process of independently analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information. The process gives reasoned consideration to evidence, contexts, conceptualizations, methods, and criteria. Which higher order thinking skills does this relate to?
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Given a bar graph showing the per unit cost of food products when purchased in various size packages, the student will interpret it by stating the lowest and highest per unit cost and by describing the relationship between increased package size and per unit cost of the product.
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
At what level of Bloom’s Taxonomy does High Order Thinking skills start?
Create
Apply
Understand
Remember
What are the 4 keys to utilizing Cold call effectively?
Positive, Systematic, Logical, Unbundle
Positive, Systematic, Logical, Complex
Positive, Systematic, Unpredictable, Unbundle
Positive, Systematic, Predictable, Unbundle
Read the activity below:
Given a straight edge, compass, and paper, students are asked to construct an equilateral triangle.
Which level of higher order thinking is being used?
Critical Thinking
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Creative Thinking
Read the activity below:
Given population data that illustrates the principle that the standard of living decreases if population increases without corresponding increase in production. The teacher asked the students to analyze the data to tell how he is able to determine what effects changing population will have upon the standard of living.
Which level of higher order thinking is being used?
Critical Thinking
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Creative Thinking
Read the activity below:
Identify the parts of the plant cell
Which level of higher order thinking skills is being used?
Critical Thinking
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Creative Thinking
None of the Above
Read the activity below:
Given several types of materials, the student are asked to evaluate them to determine which is the best conductor of electricity.
Which level of higher order thinking skills is being used?
Critical Thinking
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Creative Thinking
None of the Above
Read the activity below:
Given several examples of each, students are asked to classify materials according to their physical properties as gas, liquid, or solid.
Which level of higher order thinking skills is being used?
Critical Thinking
Logical Thinking
Reflective Thinking
Creative Thinking
None of the Above
Cold Call Roll Out Mini-Practice:
Script out what you might say to students to communicate the normalcy of Cold Calling in your classroom.
Script should include the following:
Teacher’s choice, don’t know who will be called on, so ask question first before calling individual’s name.
Example Script:
"Students, this year in my class we will be using Cold Call. I will select the student who is to respond. My expectation is that everyone is paying attention and ready to answer when called on. I may just say, “Cold Call time.”
What are the benefits of academic talk ?
You may use your reading material "Overview of Accountable Talk" and "Accountable Talk Practices" used during the Accountable Talk presentation from Mrs. Rhodes.
Talk—discussion, theorizing, student presentations, and argument—helps make thinking visible and serves as a window on student understanding and learning.
Talk allows students to play games with friends.
Talk supports robust learning by boosting memory.
Talk supports language development.
Productive talk helps students to develop their ability to reason well, using evidence.
What are the implications of accountable talk practices for you and your future students? How do you imaging Accountable Talk practices being used in your content area?
You may use your reading material "Overview of Accountable Talk" and "Accountable Talk Practices" used during the Accountable Talk presentation from Mrs. Rhodes.
How can you have accountability to the learning community by using accountable talk? (What does this look like for the student?)
You may use your reading material "Overview of Accountable Talk" and "Accountable Talk Practices" used during the Accountable Talk presentation from Mrs. Rhodes.
Using Chapter 6 - Vocabulary and Visuals in the FIrst Year Teacher Notebook (green book), what strategies does Marilee Sprenger emphasize to provide quality instruction?
Replace "kid" language in your classroom with academic language.
Make connections to the learner
Read aloud to students
Flood the classroom with words
What did you discover about teaching vocabulary you want to be sure and remember?
Resource: Chapter 6 - Vocabulary and Visuals (page 97-100 in the First Year Teacher Notebook)
What is the purpose of the lead4ward Academic Vocabulary Tool?
Resource: Chapter 6 - Vocabulary and Visuals (page 101-105 in the First Year Teacher Notebook)
gives students new vocabulary
helps students know how many words they will learn
helps you know which academic words you must help your students develop
allows you to create a word wall
How is the lead4ward Academic Vocabulary Tool organized?
Resource: Chapter 6 - Vocabulary and Visuals (page 102-105 in the First Year Teacher Notebook)
by TEKS cluster
by words needed for conceptual development
by words new to the grade level or course
by words previously introduced
Which of the following activities would be the most developmentally appropriate for a first-grade teacher to include in a unit on the life cycle of plants?
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Planting a bean and observing the stages of growth
Reading nonfiction books about plants and creating posters
Visiting a science center and touring the plant exhibits
Watching a video about plants and drawing the bean life cycle
Describe Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development by identifying what each letter of SPCF stands for and key information for each letter.
Resource: PPR Ed Publishing page 15 - 17 (Domain 1 - Competency 1)
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
There are four main developmental domains:
Resource: PPR Ed Publishing (Domain 1 - Competency 1)
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Cognitive (thought, thinking)
Language Development (vocabulary, word meaning)
Social (relationships, morality)
Emotional (feelings)
Physical (body, brain)
Which of the following strategies most directly leads to increased academic performance?
Resource: PPR Ed Publishing (Domain 1 - Competency 1)
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Integrating social-emotional learning in classes
Scheduling daily time for students to read for pleasure
Rewarding students for meeting specific objectives
Enforcing regulations regarding excessive tardiness
Which of the following is the most powerful influence on a person's sense of identity before adolescence?
Resource: PPR Ed Publishing (Domain 1 - Competency 1)
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
School
Family
Media
Peers
Which of the following rationales would a supporter of block scheduling provide to convince others to support the organizational structure?
Resource: PPR Ed Publishing (Domain 1 - Competency 1)
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Teachers can focus on more subjects in a shorter time.
There is an emphasis on mastering facts and skills.
Students' time in quality learning situations is increased.
The responsibility for learning is shifted to the teachers.
Describe Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development and each stage.
Resource: PPR Ed Publishing (Domain 1 - Competency 1)
Competency 001—The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
