EAS Study Guide Questions and Answers Rated A+

EAS Study Guide Questions and Answers Rated A+ How to involve parents in ELL Language acquisition? Focus on encouraging children to bring completed hw assignments to school What to do when a classroom has an extraordinary wide range of reading levels work with a special education teacher to partition the class and assign a group of students to that teacher How to address diverse student population needs during the use of internet activities during a lesson help students find sites that reflect their own culture. they can find similarities and differences between the their culture and the culture being studied and strengthen their own sense of cultural identity Strategies that teachers can employ to address the wide range of reading levels Establish collaborative groups with a wide range of reading levels within each group. By mixing reading levels, all students gain. Students also learn how to work within a group setting. What is the most effective way to enhance ELL learning during discussion arrange for ELL learners to review each others' reports before presentation. This way they can practice their skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere What is the best approach for promoting success for ELL students in preparation for a written response while working with articles and internet resources? provide ELL students with a graphic organizer that lists important words so they can organize their thoughts before writing the assignment What is the best way to help learning disabled students learn words? Teach them in a direct, clear and explicit fashion. Intrinsic motivation topics that students enjoy, usually best for individual work extrinsic motivation external rewards for good work or goal attainment. most successful when applied to routine work like completing an assignment. Praise must be given for a specific accomplishment (this includes effort) How to best motivate students Students will be most motivated if they like the topic, believe the lesson has to do with them, and have a positive reaction to your efforts to motivate them How to best give a lecture 1. Lesson begins with motivation 2. Teacher maintains eye contact 3. Teacher uses gestures 4. Presentation limited to 5-40 minutes 5. Objective is clear and easy to follow at an appropriate level Student centered approaches/active learning: Cooperative learning Students work together to learn a concept or skill. Students us many resources including the teacher to complete the task. Through cooperative learning students learn responsibility, active learning, full participation and democracy Student centered approaches/Active learning: Inquiry learning/socratic method 1. Teacher explains inquiry process 2. teacher presents problem 3. students gather information and ask questions 4. teacher provides support 5. teacher asks students to think over and describe the process they use to arrive at a solution (metacognition) Three domains of learning (different from Garder's theory of multiple intelligences) Cognitive: knowledge and intellectual activity Affective: values, interests, attitudes and feelings Psychomotor: motorskills Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of objectives 1. Remembering: remembering specifics, recalling terms/theories 2. Understanding: using an idea but not relating it to other ideas 3. Applying: using concepts or abstractions in actual situations 4. Analyzing: breaking down a statement to relate ideas in the statement 5. Evaluating: judging a decision or critiquing according to particular criteria 6. Creating: creating new ideas or perspectives Madeleine Hunter's Effective Lesson planning method 1. Anticipatory set: prepare students to focus on one lesson 2. Objective & purpose: state the objective of the lesson 3. Input: present new information 4. Modeling: teach/demonstrate the new skill 5. Check for understanding 6. Guided practice 7. Independent practice What are two popular management