Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Definitions


Cognitive learning: Learning that involves comprehending information, organizing ideas, and problem solving.

Cooperative Learning: An approach to organizing classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences for students.

Eurhythmics: the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding.

Multiple Intelligence Theory: 8 intelligence groups developed by Gardner that help teachers see what the strength and weaknesses of their students.

Rote Learning: A memorization technique that is based on repetition.

Think-Pair-Share: The strategy where the teacher poses a question, the students take time to think of an answer on their own, and then the students find a partner and discuss what their answers are.

Checking For Understanding: The process to which the teacher takes time to make sure the students understand the material to which they were just taught.

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