Questions designed to help students with dynamic thinking by, first, reassuring them that not knowing an answer is acceptable and, second, encouraging them to come up with strategies to find the answer.
A teaching model that uses facilitated teaching and focuses on helping students set personal goals.
An activity in which students apply what they have learned without teacher assistance. This further informs the teacher about the accuracy of his or her perception about and actual effectiveness of the lesson.
An activity in which students apply recently acquired information at a stage when the teacher remains available to assist.
A type of instruction resulting from teachers’ inaccurate assumptions about students’ abilities, which leads to discord between the teaching program and the learner.
A reading technique designed to help teachers to observe and assess students’ engagement with the reading process. Teachers are then able to identify strengths and weaknesses, and plan appropriate lessons regardless of the domain, teaching method, or curriculum involved.
A form of communication-related to the creation of images—such as graphs, charts, maps, clusters, drawings, and murals—that is used to understand the text.
A pedagogical method that encourages student input in their learning and emphasizes authentic learning activities in literacy instruction by including meaningful contexts.
Knowledge of how to actively participate and effect change in the local community and society.