Exam 7: Strategies That Promote Understanding, Thinking, and Engagement

What are the reasons and benefits for using the strategy of identifying similarities and differences? What problems might you encounter in their use?

How can teachers promote student engagement in their classrooms?

Asking students to do a systems analysis is an example of which strategy?

Describe how you would justify to parents your use of cues and advance organizers in your instruction.

Identify and briefly discuss three guidelines for how homework should be used.

Critical thinking is not something that can be taught; students must develop their skills on their own.

Prompts, questions, and elaboration are examples of:

Summarizing involves each of the following except:

Reinforcing effort is important because some students do not make a connection between effort and achievement.

When setting objectives, you should be careful not to make them too:

A time-sequence pattern is a type of:

Provide a definition for each of these terms: -Student engagement

Identify and briefly describe two ways that similarities and differences can be used in class.

Reading a newspaper article to the class about the day's lesson is an example of an advance organizer.

What are effective guidelines when planning for motivation in your instruction?

One critical aspect of student learning is engaging the student.

Discuss the benefits of engaging students in your classroom.

Historical investigations can be used to generate and test hypotheses.

With the SIOP Model, identify and discuss some guidelines for teachers planning and use of instructional strategies to promote student learning.