EDF Final Exam Review Questions and Answers

Components of a lesson plan - Answer- 1. Objectives and Goals 2. Anticipatory Set 3. Direct Instruction 4. Guided Practice 5. Independent Practice 6. Assessment and Follow Up Allocated Time - Answer- the allotment of time that has been used within different activities and specific exercises Engaged Time - Answer- time in a subject-matter area in which a student is engaged successfully in the activities or with the materials to which he or she is exposed Academic Learning Time - Answer- the amount of time students are successfully covering content that will be tested Group Alerting - Answer- is engaging the attention of the whole class while individuals are responding With-it-ness - Answer- a teacher's ability to correct misbehavior before it gets out of control and before other students in the class see it and also begin to do it Overlapping - Answer- how a teacher deals with two or more events that are going on in the classroom at the same time Principle of least intervention - Answer- a way of managing minor classroom disruptions without interrupting the learning environment Flip-Flops - Answer- is an instructional strategy that commonly involves deliberately planning to introduce new information as homework instead of teaching it in class. The four steps of the Pedagogical Cycle - Answer- 1. Structure 2. Question 3. Respond 4. React The ten components of Clarity and Academic Structure - Answer- Bloom's Taxonomy - Answer- a classification system used to define and distinguish different levels of human cognition—i.e., thinking, learning, and understanding Lower Order Thinking - Answer- is the foundation of skills required to move into higher order thinking. These are skills that are taught very well in school systems and includes activities like reading and writing. Higher Order Thinking - Answer- The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others, but also have more generalized benefits. Wait Time - Answer- is the amount of time that elapses between an tutor-initiated question and the next verbal behavior I-Poem - Answer- a good way to teach children to focus on their own characteristics. It also is a good ice breaker for the beginning of the year. Stereotypes - Answer- a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing Race - Answer- a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group