Exam UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Differentiation Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER Used to address the needs of individual
students
Content: what the student needs to learn or how the student will get access to the information
Process: · activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content
Products: · culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has
learned in a unit.
Learning Environment: the way the classroom works and feels
Explicit Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER Detailed and direct, Straight to the point
An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction . The instruction offered should include a
great deal of teacher-student interactivity.
6 core teaching functions: Review, presentation, guided practice, corrections and feedback,
independent practice, weekly and monthly reviews
Curriculum Compacting - CORRECT ANSWER strategy for differentiating curriculum for
gifted and talented students by replacing content that students have already mastered with more
challenging material
Progress Montioring - CORRECT ANSWER used to assess students' academic performance,
quantify their rates of improvement or progress toward goals, and determine how they are responding
to instruction.
, Universal design for learning (UDL) - CORRECT ANSWER Is an approach to curriculum that
minimizes barriers and minimizes learning for all students. Universal curriculum that can be used and
understood by everyone.
3 areas: engagement, representation, action & expression
Systematic Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER Instruction requires order (How to tie your
shoe)
A carefully planned sequence for instruction, similar to a builder's blueprint for a house. A blueprint is
carefully thought out and designed before building materials are gathered and construction begins.
The plan for instruction that is systematic is carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before
activities and lessons are planned. For systematic instruction, lessons build on previously taught
information, from simple to complex.
task analysis - CORRECT ANSWER an important element of systematic instruction and can
help teachers sequence instruction.
Breaks complex skills into smaller, more manageable chunks
Formative Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER Assessment used throughout teaching of a
lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
is to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback to staff and students.
Summative Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER Assessment data collected after instruction to
evaluate a student's mastery of the curriculum objectives and a teacher's effectiveness at instructional
delivery.
Title III of Every Student Succeeds (ESSA) - CORRECT ANSWER Relates to education for
EL's
Helps ensure that English learners and immigrant students and youth, attain English proficiency and
develop high levels of academic achievement.