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What is an activity that would require using critical-thinking skills?

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What is an activity that would require using critical-thinking skills?

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Drawing your own conclusions from given data requires analysis, a skill that requires critical thinking and deductive reasoning.

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An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their children. The most effective way to do this while fostering parent communication is to

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invite parents to a "reading night" where student and parents meet to read and share favorite poems. Although student's are always encouraged to read, the reading night for parents and students, best meets the teacher's objective. A reading night would encourage parents to start reading with their children. It would also provide an opportunity to interact with the parents, fostering an open line of communication.

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According to Piaget, most children are capable of completing assessment problems that require logical thinking by what age?

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most children are capable of logical thinking by the age of 8.

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According to Webb's Depth of Knowledge, the most complex cognitive level is

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The most rigorous. Cognitive activity is Extended Thinking, which includes applying concepts, analyzing, critiquing, and synthesizing.

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Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) - Skills & Concepts

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2. Can the student think beyond recalling a fact? Students may be asked to interpret, infer, classify and categorize, organize, compare & contrast, and determine whether fact or opinion, predict, determine cause & effect, apply, reconstruct or sequence a story.

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A convergent question

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Have only one, simple answer. For instance, if you ask a student, "What is the capital of Florida?" there is only one answer: Tallahassee.

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When planning a unit, a teacher must ensure that the lessons

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activate prior knowledge and coherently present the material that is to be covered in accordance with state standards.

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A high-school American history teacher conducts a fifteen-minute lecture about how triangular trade operated in the colonies. The teacher was using

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Direct instruction. Since it is teacher-centered and is your typical lecture-styled delivery of information.

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During a science lesson, a sixth-grade science teacher shares with her students how an invasive species of plant is choking out a native species. She asks them to generate a hypothesis and possible solutions to the problem. What type of activity is this?

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A problem-based activity since it starts with an actual problem and asks students to generate solutions.

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Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) - Recall & Preproduction

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1. Can the student recall a simple fact from the story? Requires a shallow understanding and no analysis.

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Learning activities should always be based on

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specific objectives as determined by the state standards.

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Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) - Extended Thinking

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4. Students take information from multiple sources and are asked to apply this information to a new task that requires complex thinking usually over time. Eg. A project based-learning activity or a research paper.

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Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) - Strategic Thinking

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3. Can the student think beyond the text to his world or another text for an answer, or adopt the text to create something new? Can he explain, generalize, or connect ideas from one text to another? Can he evaluate text, formulate opinions, and then explain them?

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Personal discovery inventories require

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students to list characteristics about themselves. This, along with generating hypotheses, developing theories, or discovering relationships, all require the use of inductive reasoning. It requires taking specific facts and using them to develop a general conclusion.

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Which of the following is the best way that a teacher can improve student retention of new material?

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Outlining objectives prior to instruction and reviewing them after instruction.

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In order to incorporate rigor in classroom instruction, a teacher should focus on

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creating opportunities for students to use higher-order thinking skills, in order for her students to thrive.

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