Category: Education
Created by: brankat
Number of Blossarys: 2
Withitness is the degree to which a teacher communicates awareness of student behaviour. It may help a teacher to judge how much time to spend on an activity, whether an explanation needs repeating, ...
Only one person can speak at a time, at least one person has performed notions about the lesson, tasks and activities are generally prefaced by or follow routines, the focus is on the language used ...
Wait time is the pause which follows a teacher question either to an individual student or the whole class, which lasts until either a student answers or the teacher adds a comment or poses another ...
Strategies for beginning lessons are: greetings, chatting to the students, warm-up activities, consciousness-raising, previewing the lesson, reviewing the previous lesson, housekeeping, time-filling, ...
Actual objects and items which are brought into a classroom as examples or as aids to be talked or written about. Examples may include such things as photographs, articles of clothing, kitchen ...
Questioning strategies are: repeating, rephrasing, prompting, providnig additional information, asking supplementary questions, redirecting, changing the level of cognitive demand.
Form of the question: declarative statements, prescriptions, declaration of perplexity, obviously incorrect suggestions, invitations to elaborate, deliberate silence, unfinished sentences, gap ...
By: andreaspaul