Friday, May 10, 2013

Wednesday's Terms...


Cognitive learning – is demonstrated by knowledge recall and the intellectual skills: comprehending information, organizing ideas, analyzing and synthesizing.
Cooperative learning – is 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 – this theory was developed by Howard Gardner in 1983.  The nine intelligences are verbal-linguistic (word smart), math-logic (number smart), spatial (picture smart), bodily-kinesthetic (body smart), musical (music smart), interpersonal (people smart), intrapersonal (self smart), naturalist (nature smart), and newly added existential (spirit smart). The theory states that individuals differ in the strengths of their intelligences.  By knowing this, educators are able to teach each student better.
Rote learning a memorization technique based on repetition.
Think-pair-share – a cooperative discussion strategy in which the teacher gives the students a question or topic. The students think about it on their own for a few moments, then form pairs and discuss their individual thoughts. Finally, each pair shares their insights with the rest of the class.
Checking for understanding – process to monitor learning to make sure students possess the skill or information before moving on to a new concept.

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