Exam (elaborations) ABCTE

Business Communication Use concrete terms instead of abstract terms. The best you know your audience, the better you can anticipate and incorporate rules on how, what, and when to use specific words and terms. Understand the relationship between universal or specific appeal to an audience or context. Clear and concise communication involves anticipation. Anticipating the language that the reader is expected to know, unfamiliar terms, enables the writer to communicate. Promoting understanding and limiting misinterpretations are key goals of an effective communicator. Maintains Class Control Students rely on teachers to establish and maintain a safe and orderly learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and allows each student to achieve his or her maximum potential. The need for student discipline requires the teacher to develop a set of rules that establish boundaries for behavior and to enforce them in a fair and consistent manner. Successful teachers prepare for classroom disruption before they begin to occur. Alongside creating a list, teacher should include consequences as part of the introductory events that occur during the first week of school. A well constructed, student-centered lesson plan is the best tactic that a teacher can employ to avert student discipline situations. Classroom Managment Productive Writing Know when you are most productive (mornings, afternoons, evenings...) If you cannot choose your timing, then dedication and perseverance is required. To be productive: 1. You need to be alert. 2. Ready to work 3. Accomplish task with relative ease. 4. Write everyday 5. Develop an habit of concentrating while you write. 6. Critical thinking self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking (attention to detail). 7. Have a positive attitude about writing in general. Reading and writing from an audience-centered view means acknowledging your confirmation bias and moving beyond it to consider multiple frames of references, points of view, perspectives as you read, research, and write. Break down writing in small manageable steps, that in turn, will provide you with a platform for success. Your rough draft as a purpose but its not your final product. Let go of fear of failure. Your desire for perfection should come in place when it comes to polishing your finished product. To eliminate fear of writing, make the unknown known. If we take out the mystery out of the product and and process, we can see it for its essential components. We see how our finished product should look. Examine successful papers to get a better feel for what you have to produce. Planning Checklist 1. Determine your general purpose: are you trying to inform, persuade, entertain, facilitate interaction, or motivate a reader? (who, what, when, how, and why(optional)) Identifying "why" something happened or why a certain decision is advantageous will be the essence of the communication. 2. Determine your specific purpose: the desired outcome. 3. Credibility, Timing, and Audience Which question below is MOST likely to generate the widest range of answers and discussions among students? A: Why would the author have ended the book this way? This question allows for both a wide range of answers and discussion of those answers. The discussion is likely to be interesting because there are so many possible answers to the question. Why questions tend to be the most open-ended. Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of class? A: To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior. Students benefit from clear, firm guidelines from the outset. The rules should be changed only when necessary, not casually or according to students demands. Which of the methods below will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in cooperative learning groups? A: Assign each student in the group a specific role in accomplishing the objectives of the activity. If each student has a role in meeting the objectives and the activity is well structured, then all students will be drawn into participating because they all have something to do. Grading students' work individually can be appropriate during cooperative learning activities. Students evaluating each other should be generally avoided. When teachers share standardized test results with parents, there is a large amount of information in the score report to be discussed. Which information will be of MOST use to a typical parent? A: Parents will generally benefit most rom specific information about how to help their children succeed. When parents know their child's weaknesses, they can emphasize working to improve them. Parents may want to know how their child had done in comparison to other students locally and nationally, but the information does not help their child improve. Knowledge: Recall and remember information Defines Describes Identifies Knows Labels Lists Matches Names Outlines Recalls Recognize Reproduce Selects States Memorize Tells Repeats Stem: How many of the following ...? Comprehension: Understanding the meaning, translation, interpolation, and intepretation Comprehends Converts Paraphrase Restate Illustrate Confirm Match Explains Predicts Defends Generalizes Compare Distinguishes Estimates Extends Gives examples Rewrites Translates Infer Summerizes Transforms Characterizes Differentiates Classifies Stem: Describe in your own words... Application: Use a concept in a new situation. Typically requires the ability to transfer learning into a new situation. In turn, the act of transferring requires operating with the relationships between situations. Applies Changes Draw Solve Model Choose Discover Collect Classify Report Show Produce Prepare Make Paint Sketch Computes Constructs Demonstrates Manipulates Modifies Experiments Stem: How is ____ related to ____ ? Analysis: Separates materials or concepts into parts so that it's organizational structure may be understood. is Analyze Survey Examine Research Investigate Compare/Contra