MTLE Secondary Pedagogy

MTLE Secondary Pedagogy executive function - set of mental processes that help us plan, organize, strategize, pay attention to details, and manage time. Intermittent in adolescent brains how can we help develop executive function in adolescent students? - break down information, make goals transparent and specific, provide feedback often and visibly, provide positive and growth emotional atmosphere bloom's taxonomy - a classification system used to define and distinguish different levels of human cognition (thinking, learning, and understanding) brain-based learning - teaching methods, lesson designs, and school programs that are based on scientific research on brain development and assesses how students learn differently as they age, grow, and mature socially, emotionally, and cognitively differentiated instruction - a form of instruction that seeks growth through the recognition that students have different ways of learning, different interests, and different ways of responding to instruction ways teachers can differentiate instruction - Content through varying complexity of what is to be learned, Process through delivering content in a variety of ways, and Product through varying how students are asking to show what they know or can do efficacy - a teacher's belief in their ability to produce an effect, or the personal conviction of teachers and administrators that their actions are the primary influences on the academic success of students equity - students and families have access to materials and human resources in proportion to needs learning progression - subskills/bodies of enabling knowledge that students must master en route to learning a more remote, target curricular aim webb's depth of knowledge - understanding of rigor or cognitive demand through a four step system; recall, skill/concept, strategic thinking, extended thinking zone of proximal development - the distance between a learner's actual development level, as determined by independent problem solving, and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers semantics - the meaning of a word or phrase, explained both structurally and cognitively for the learner discourse - how students write or speak Continues...