ABCTE PTK STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔detention - ✔✔can be tricky if s just wants to spend more time w t or staying after
school is better/more convineint for them
✔✔calling parents - ✔✔effective call: made on day of infraction, describes events,
identifies previous incendents and consequences, suggest plan that includes parents
stick to facts, dont give parenting advice
dont assume s has been honest w parents
call when you have exhuasted your tools but dotn wait too late
✔✔progressive discipline model (pdm) - ✔✔discipline ladder
clear expecations for multiple behavioral violations and their consequences
purpose: rehabilitates s who are constinually disruptive
requires you to record behaviors
have a category for serious misconduct
✔✔if students are still unruly - ✔✔maybe consequences arent sever enough?
s dont understand rules or enforcement is inconsistent
maybe you are just boring
✔✔if students are reaching 2nd or 3rd stage of pdm daily - ✔✔they know the limits and
just go to those. use serious misconduct clause
maybe there are no cumulative discipline records. when do these reset?
create a contract
✔✔lesson plan - ✔✔instructional road map
includes objectives, best way to teach objectives, and methods of determining the
effectiveness of lessons (assessments)
✔✔national curricula - ✔✔overall standard, good fro review of subjects
✔✔indivudiaul curricula - ✔✔created by states, asligns with national curricula but adds
state priorities and is ususally more specific
✔✔translating curriculum - ✔✔follow sequence:
how long to teach the unit?
write assessment
teach skills/content required for standards
review for assessment
assess
evaluate effectiveness of instruction based on assessment
redesign/repeat
, ✔✔objectives - ✔✔use sequential developmental objectives- break down bigger
objectives
use pre testing and formative assesements to monitor progress
objective=what students can accomplish at the end of a lesson
✔✔pacing - ✔✔break down larger units
what can students remember/absorb during a time period?
✔✔assessment - ✔✔periodic measuring devices that indicate student growth and verify
successful teaching
✔✔the learning cycle - ✔✔exlopration- concept introduction- concept application
✔✔exploration stage - ✔✔engagement activities provide context and
investment/motivation
framing for lesson should be hands on, open ended
✔✔concept introduction stage - ✔✔traditional "teaching" stage
conneces interestes and qs from exploration to learning
known as "guided discovery"
s construct meaning based on lessons from t
✔✔concept application stage - ✔✔apply conecpts in new situations
leads to exploration stage for next unit
✔✔providing conext for learning - ✔✔frame so new concepts are assimilated into prior
knowledge
-s access prior knowledge to understand new concepts
fram by summarizing last lesson
✔✔strategies to provide context for learnign? - ✔✔focus on most important
concepts/skills
use examples to reinfoce difficulat concetps
organize material around a central concept/theme/idea
require review, repetition, application of concepts
prepare study aids and help students use them to become independent learners
✔✔considerations when lesson planning - ✔✔interactive classroom
plan for audience diversity
motivate thos who dont participate
integrate vocab
model citizenship/respect
use a combo of modalities
identify resources
determine evaluation of learning
GRADED A+
✔✔detention - ✔✔can be tricky if s just wants to spend more time w t or staying after
school is better/more convineint for them
✔✔calling parents - ✔✔effective call: made on day of infraction, describes events,
identifies previous incendents and consequences, suggest plan that includes parents
stick to facts, dont give parenting advice
dont assume s has been honest w parents
call when you have exhuasted your tools but dotn wait too late
✔✔progressive discipline model (pdm) - ✔✔discipline ladder
clear expecations for multiple behavioral violations and their consequences
purpose: rehabilitates s who are constinually disruptive
requires you to record behaviors
have a category for serious misconduct
✔✔if students are still unruly - ✔✔maybe consequences arent sever enough?
s dont understand rules or enforcement is inconsistent
maybe you are just boring
✔✔if students are reaching 2nd or 3rd stage of pdm daily - ✔✔they know the limits and
just go to those. use serious misconduct clause
maybe there are no cumulative discipline records. when do these reset?
create a contract
✔✔lesson plan - ✔✔instructional road map
includes objectives, best way to teach objectives, and methods of determining the
effectiveness of lessons (assessments)
✔✔national curricula - ✔✔overall standard, good fro review of subjects
✔✔indivudiaul curricula - ✔✔created by states, asligns with national curricula but adds
state priorities and is ususally more specific
✔✔translating curriculum - ✔✔follow sequence:
how long to teach the unit?
write assessment
teach skills/content required for standards
review for assessment
assess
evaluate effectiveness of instruction based on assessment
redesign/repeat
, ✔✔objectives - ✔✔use sequential developmental objectives- break down bigger
objectives
use pre testing and formative assesements to monitor progress
objective=what students can accomplish at the end of a lesson
✔✔pacing - ✔✔break down larger units
what can students remember/absorb during a time period?
✔✔assessment - ✔✔periodic measuring devices that indicate student growth and verify
successful teaching
✔✔the learning cycle - ✔✔exlopration- concept introduction- concept application
✔✔exploration stage - ✔✔engagement activities provide context and
investment/motivation
framing for lesson should be hands on, open ended
✔✔concept introduction stage - ✔✔traditional "teaching" stage
conneces interestes and qs from exploration to learning
known as "guided discovery"
s construct meaning based on lessons from t
✔✔concept application stage - ✔✔apply conecpts in new situations
leads to exploration stage for next unit
✔✔providing conext for learning - ✔✔frame so new concepts are assimilated into prior
knowledge
-s access prior knowledge to understand new concepts
fram by summarizing last lesson
✔✔strategies to provide context for learnign? - ✔✔focus on most important
concepts/skills
use examples to reinfoce difficulat concetps
organize material around a central concept/theme/idea
require review, repetition, application of concepts
prepare study aids and help students use them to become independent learners
✔✔considerations when lesson planning - ✔✔interactive classroom
plan for audience diversity
motivate thos who dont participate
integrate vocab
model citizenship/respect
use a combo of modalities
identify resources
determine evaluation of learning
