LADEMSJ Common Questions
Skills educators should develop to enhance classroom practice
• Reducing subject matter to essences
• Planning lessons
• Making lesson proceed meaningfully
• Viewing themes through learner’s eyes
• Capturing & holding learner’s interest
• Asking questions
• Applying reinforcement
• Integrating teaching media
• Evaluation
• Providing intellectual challenges
Questioning techniques
• Plan key questions to provide structure
• Phrase questions clearly
• Adapt questions to learner’s ability
• Ask questions logically and sequentially
• Ask at variety of levels
• Follow up on responses
• Give students time before responding
• Use questions that encourage participation
• Encourage student questions
• Look up answer if can’t answer
Characteristics of CASS – pg 136
• Takes place continuously over a period
• Supports learners’ growth and development
• Provides feedback on learning and teaching
• Makes provision for integrated assessment
• Uses strategies for range of learner needs
• Makes provision for summative assessment
Explain Bloom’s cognitive domain levels & use action words to give examples
1. Knowledge Memory of previously learned material List. Define.
2. Comprehension Demonstrate understanding by Summarise. Choose based on
organising/comparing/stating main idea adv/disad.
3. Application Solve problems in new situations by Apply knowledge to create
applying knowledge own.
4. Analysis Examine & break info into parts, & make Differentiate between
inferences characteristics of pvt vs
public company.
5. Synthesis Combine info in different way Design/Develop own
business plan.
6. Evaluation Present & defend opinion by making Decide on which form of
judgements ownership is best.
, Lesson plan (often FoP)
3 approaches to cooperative learning
• Student team achievement divisions
o Teachers present new content each week
o Learners divided into teams of 4/5
o Teams use worksheets to master, then help other members
o Quizzes are scored & learners given improvement score
• Jigsaw
o Each learner learns piece of material
o Learners in 5/6 member teams
o Groups w/ same topic meet to study
• Group investigation
o Most complex and most difficult
o Learners involved in planning both content topics and ways to proceed w/ investigation
o Requires learners to learn how to communicate
Planning and prepping for cooperative learning
• Choosing appropriate content
o Cooperative learning requires lots of self-direction and initiative from learner ∴ need appro. &
challenging content
o Do learners have prior knowledge of subject matter?
o Is content interesting?
o Does content lend itself to STAD/jigsaw/GI?
• Forming learner teams
o Vary according to learning outcomes
o During planning, must outline academic & social outcomes
o Need to know learners’ abilities
o Might need to sacrifice some features of group composition for others
• Developing materials & directions
o Should be interesting & appro.
Skills educators should develop to enhance classroom practice
• Reducing subject matter to essences
• Planning lessons
• Making lesson proceed meaningfully
• Viewing themes through learner’s eyes
• Capturing & holding learner’s interest
• Asking questions
• Applying reinforcement
• Integrating teaching media
• Evaluation
• Providing intellectual challenges
Questioning techniques
• Plan key questions to provide structure
• Phrase questions clearly
• Adapt questions to learner’s ability
• Ask questions logically and sequentially
• Ask at variety of levels
• Follow up on responses
• Give students time before responding
• Use questions that encourage participation
• Encourage student questions
• Look up answer if can’t answer
Characteristics of CASS – pg 136
• Takes place continuously over a period
• Supports learners’ growth and development
• Provides feedback on learning and teaching
• Makes provision for integrated assessment
• Uses strategies for range of learner needs
• Makes provision for summative assessment
Explain Bloom’s cognitive domain levels & use action words to give examples
1. Knowledge Memory of previously learned material List. Define.
2. Comprehension Demonstrate understanding by Summarise. Choose based on
organising/comparing/stating main idea adv/disad.
3. Application Solve problems in new situations by Apply knowledge to create
applying knowledge own.
4. Analysis Examine & break info into parts, & make Differentiate between
inferences characteristics of pvt vs
public company.
5. Synthesis Combine info in different way Design/Develop own
business plan.
6. Evaluation Present & defend opinion by making Decide on which form of
judgements ownership is best.
, Lesson plan (often FoP)
3 approaches to cooperative learning
• Student team achievement divisions
o Teachers present new content each week
o Learners divided into teams of 4/5
o Teams use worksheets to master, then help other members
o Quizzes are scored & learners given improvement score
• Jigsaw
o Each learner learns piece of material
o Learners in 5/6 member teams
o Groups w/ same topic meet to study
• Group investigation
o Most complex and most difficult
o Learners involved in planning both content topics and ways to proceed w/ investigation
o Requires learners to learn how to communicate
Planning and prepping for cooperative learning
• Choosing appropriate content
o Cooperative learning requires lots of self-direction and initiative from learner ∴ need appro. &
challenging content
o Do learners have prior knowledge of subject matter?
o Is content interesting?
o Does content lend itself to STAD/jigsaw/GI?
• Forming learner teams
o Vary according to learning outcomes
o During planning, must outline academic & social outcomes
o Need to know learners’ abilities
o Might need to sacrifice some features of group composition for others
• Developing materials & directions
o Should be interesting & appro.
