Educational Standards

What is meant by "transfer" and "transfer knowledge"?

·         Transfer is the ability to extend what one has learned in one context to new contexts

·         Transferable knowledge is a process through which students learn how, when, and why to apply specific knowledge to solve problems in other areas.

·         Students must be able to apply knowledge and skills to real world, or other content areas.

Briefly explain the what, why, and how of meta-cognition.

·         Meta-cognition is the act of thinking about ourselves as information processors

·         It is thinking about thinking

·         Technical word for reflective thinking

·         Happens anytime a student is thinking about how to approach a task, how to monitor a goal, and evaluate themselves on the depth of understanding a subject.

What is the Zone of Proximal Development and how will you use it when you teach?

·         Zone of Proximal Development is the distance that a learner can do with help and without help.

·         Determine prior knowledge of the student; build on this prior knowledge by building connectors that connects previous knowledge to new knowledge.

·         Start where a student is but to challenge them to move one step ahead.

·         Scaffolding – to move students beyond their current skill set into challenge tasks.

Explain what standards are and why we have them

·         Society’s expectation of what you are supposed to teach your students.

Identify standards, objectives, and indicators in your core

·         Core or subject matter will be split up into standards

·         Standards are a baseline. They are a guideline of what to teach. There is plenty of room to bring your own personality and your own strengths.

·         Standards are broken up into objectives

·         The objectives are then broken up by indicators.

·         Indicators are very specific and usually start with a verb.