GACE Educational Leadership Study
Terms (School Culture & Instructional
Program) (VERIFIED AND GRADED
A+)
I-statements - Correct Answer: -Expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas from a personal point of
view.
-Fostering assertive communication, lowering defensiveness and blame, helping people to accept
responsibility for their feelings and ultimately highlighting the connection between thoughts,
emotions, and behaviors
Learning Goal - Correct Answer: -Backbone of a lesson and provides the "reason" for teaching
and observing it.
-Usually begin by selecting a subject, concept, theme, or topic in the course they want to study. --
Drawn to topics that are particularly difficult for students to learn or for teachers to teach.
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.
Formative Assessment - Correct Answer: -Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson
and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
-Conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning
activities to improve student attainment.
Mnenomic Strategies - Correct Answer: - Link new word/concept to information you already
know.
, -Highly effective way to help students (with and without disabilities) recall and retrieve the new
information taught
-Examples: Keyword, Pegword Rhyming, Acronym, Acrostic Letter Sentence, Combination
Diagnostic Questions - Correct Answer: -Measure responses to specific elements of the concept
(Example: what would you anticipate the durability to be on the Swiss Army knife you just saw?)
Elaborative questioning - Correct Answer: the process of drawing inferences, identifying
examples, and forming relationships
Choral Reading - Correct Answer: two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in
unison to enhance oral reading fluency, self confidence & motivation.
Team Learning - Correct Answer: collective acquisition, combination, creation, sharing
knowledge
Reflective learning - Correct Answer: a means of improving performance, by using the outcome
of reflection to influence future practice
Reciprocal Teaching - Correct Answer: Approach to teaching reading and listening
comprehension in which students take turns asking teacher-like questions of classmates.
Read aloud - Correct Answer: Teacher fluently reads excellent literature to the class; allows
students to hear stories that cannot fluently read alone
Concept Attainment - Correct Answer: Force students to make own connections (key word
attainment)
Think-Pair-Share - Correct Answer: The teacher asks a question, and the students think about it.
Then they pair up to discuss their thoughts. Then they share their conclusions with the class.
Terms (School Culture & Instructional
Program) (VERIFIED AND GRADED
A+)
I-statements - Correct Answer: -Expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas from a personal point of
view.
-Fostering assertive communication, lowering defensiveness and blame, helping people to accept
responsibility for their feelings and ultimately highlighting the connection between thoughts,
emotions, and behaviors
Learning Goal - Correct Answer: -Backbone of a lesson and provides the "reason" for teaching
and observing it.
-Usually begin by selecting a subject, concept, theme, or topic in the course they want to study. --
Drawn to topics that are particularly difficult for students to learn or for teachers to teach.
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.
Formative Assessment - Correct Answer: -Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson
and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
-Conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning
activities to improve student attainment.
Mnenomic Strategies - Correct Answer: - Link new word/concept to information you already
know.
, -Highly effective way to help students (with and without disabilities) recall and retrieve the new
information taught
-Examples: Keyword, Pegword Rhyming, Acronym, Acrostic Letter Sentence, Combination
Diagnostic Questions - Correct Answer: -Measure responses to specific elements of the concept
(Example: what would you anticipate the durability to be on the Swiss Army knife you just saw?)
Elaborative questioning - Correct Answer: the process of drawing inferences, identifying
examples, and forming relationships
Choral Reading - Correct Answer: two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in
unison to enhance oral reading fluency, self confidence & motivation.
Team Learning - Correct Answer: collective acquisition, combination, creation, sharing
knowledge
Reflective learning - Correct Answer: a means of improving performance, by using the outcome
of reflection to influence future practice
Reciprocal Teaching - Correct Answer: Approach to teaching reading and listening
comprehension in which students take turns asking teacher-like questions of classmates.
Read aloud - Correct Answer: Teacher fluently reads excellent literature to the class; allows
students to hear stories that cannot fluently read alone
Concept Attainment - Correct Answer: Force students to make own connections (key word
attainment)
Think-Pair-Share - Correct Answer: The teacher asks a question, and the students think about it.
Then they pair up to discuss their thoughts. Then they share their conclusions with the class.
