Exam 12: Planning, Instruction, and Technology

Seatwork refers to the practice of having students work together in small groups at their seats.

Compare and contrast expository advance organizers with comparative advance organizers.

After they ask a question during class, it is recommended that teachers wait approximately how long for students to answer the question before answering the question themselves?

Discuss how effective use of technology in the classroom is dependent upon a teacher's skills.

According to Robert Yinger (1980), teachers should consider all of the following when planning for instruction except which one?

Create an outline with specific tips for effectively using seatwork in your elementary reading lesson.

Application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are best assessed using multiple-choice and true-false questions.

Create a discovery learning activity appropriate for middle-grade students.

Choose one of the factors developed by the American Psychological Association to organize the different learning-centered principles and explain how it aligns with your beliefs about teaching.

Constructivist learning is best supported by curricular focus rather than pure discovery.

The learner-centered principle described as "thinking about thinking" refers to:

Discovery learning is learning in which students construct an understanding on their own.

Which of the following teachers is utilizing guided discovery learning?

Critics of learner-centered instruction argue that it gives insufficient attention to the process of learning and too much attention to academic content.

Direct instruction is a structured, student-centered approach that is characterized by low teacher expectations for student progress, minimizing the time students spend on academic tasks.

Which learning principle refers to using a variety of thinking and reasoning strategies to reach learning goals?

Learning is more effective when student differences are taken into account. Differences along linguistic, cultural, and social backgrounds influence students' learning. Which learning principle best captures this belief?

Choose one of the factors developed by the American Psychological Association to organize the different learning-centered principles and explain how it is underemphasized in the average classroom.

Which of the following is not one of the time-spans for teacher planning as developed by Robert Yinger?

List the three domains of Bloom's taxonomy.