Teaching Methods
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Bloom's taxonomy, backward design, scaffolding, differentiation, and the assessment types that actually tell you what students learned. Strategies carry their origin where they have a named one, plus what the idea looks like in a real classroom.
- What is Bloom's taxonomy?
- A hierarchy of cognitive learning objectives used to classify the thinking a task demands, from simple recall to complex creation.
- What are the six levels of the revised Bloom's taxonomy, in order?
- Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create.
- How did the 2001 revision change the original 1956 Bloom's taxonomy?
- It renamed the levels as verbs instead of nouns and swapped the top two, so Create sits above Evaluate.
- What is the knowledge dimension in the revised Bloom's taxonomy?
- A second axis crossing the cognitive levels: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge.
- What is scaffolding in instruction?
- Temporary support that lets a learner do a task they could not yet do alone, removed gradually as competence grows.
- What is the zone of proximal development?
- The gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can do with guidance from a more capable other.
- What is the gradual release of responsibility model?
- A sequence that moves from teacher modeling, to guided practice, to collaborative work, to independent practice.
- What is direct instruction?
- Teacher-led, explicitly sequenced instruction with clear objectives, modeling, guided practice, and frequent checks for understanding.
- What is inquiry-based learning?
- An approach where students investigate a question or problem and construct understanding through evidence rather than receiving conclusions first.
- What is problem-based learning?
- Students learn content by working through an authentic, ill-structured problem, usually in small groups with a facilitating teacher.
- What is project-based learning?
- Extended inquiry in which students build a public product that answers a driving question, learning content along the way.
- What is differentiated instruction?
- Proactively adjusting content, process, product, or learning environment so a mixed-readiness class can all access rigorous learning.
- What are the four classroom elements a teacher can differentiate?
- Content (what is learned), process (how it is learned), product (how learning is shown), and learning environment.
- What is a tiered assignment?
- Several versions of the same task at different levels of complexity or support, all aimed at the same core objective.
- What is flexible grouping?
- Regrouping students by current need, task, or interest rather than fixing them in permanent ability groups.
- What is formative assessment?
- Assessment used during learning to give feedback and adjust teaching, usually not graded for a permanent record.
- What is summative assessment?
- Assessment at the end of a unit or course that judges what was learned against a standard, usually for a grade.
- What is diagnostic assessment?
- Assessment before instruction that identifies prior knowledge, misconceptions, and skill gaps so teaching can be targeted.
- What is ipsative assessment?
- Assessment that compares a learner's current performance to their own earlier performance rather than to peers or a standard.
- What is the difference between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment?
- Norm-referenced compares a student to other students and reports rank or percentile; criterion-referenced compares performance to a fixed standard.
- What is a rubric?
- A scoring guide listing the criteria for a task and describing what each level of quality looks like on each criterion.
- What is the difference between an analytic and a holistic rubric?
- An analytic rubric scores each criterion separately; a holistic rubric gives one overall score from a general description of each level.
- What is a single-point rubric?
- A rubric that describes only the proficient level for each criterion, leaving columns for evidence of falling short or exceeding it.
- What is an exit ticket?
- A short prompt answered in the final minutes of class that gives the teacher evidence of what was understood.
- What is think-pair-share?
- A structure where students think alone, discuss with a partner, then share with the class.
- What is the jigsaw method?
- Each group member becomes an expert on one piece of the material, meets other experts, then teaches their home group.
- What five elements define cooperative learning?
- Positive interdependence, individual accountability, promotive interaction, social skills instruction, and group processing.
- What is a Socratic seminar?
- A structured, text-based discussion where students question each other and defend claims with evidence while the teacher mostly stays silent.
- What is a flipped classroom?
- Students meet new content before class, usually by video or reading, so class time is used for practice, discussion, and help.
- What is backward design?
- Planning by first identifying desired results, then acceptable evidence of learning, and only then the learning activities.