Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Terms

cognitive learning: The process by which learners acquire knowledge, beliefs, facts, and thinking skills.
cooperative learning: an approach to organizing classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.
eurhythmics: the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding.
multiple intelligence theory: proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983 to explore and articulate various forms or expressions of intelligence available to cognition.
rote learning: memorization by repetition
think-pair-share: a strategy designed to provide students with "food for thought" on a given topic enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another student
checking for understanding: viewing work samples, providing opportunities for performance, and broadening the definition of testing and assessment beyond a grade-giving function

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