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Chapter 7 EDU 321

Terms in this set (12)

advance organizer
A statement made by teachers before a presentation or before having students read textual materials that provides a structure for new information to be linked to students' prior knowledge.
analogies
statements or phrases that compare two things.
cognitive structures
determines a learner's ability to deal with new ideas and relationships and that meaning can emerge from new materials only if they are connected to prior knowledge.
conditional knowledge
Knowledge about when it is appropriate to use particular declarative or procedural knowledge.
declarative knowledge
knowledge about something or that something is the case; knowledge of facts, concepts or principles.
establishing set
procedure teachers use at the beginning of a lesson aimed at getting students ready to learn.
explaining links
Prepositions or conjunctions used in a presentation that indicate the cause, result, means, or purpose of an event or idea.
flipped classroom
Approach to teaching where teacher creates videos or other multimedia presentations for student to view as homework, thus freeing up class time to provide individual help and to hold discussions.
information processing
the process used by the mind to take in, store, and retrieve information for use.
metaphors
a figure of speech where one thing is applied to something else.
schema
an individual's (teacher or student) knowledge structure or the way information has been organized and stored in memory.
verbal signposts
Statements made by teachers when explaining something that tells the students what is important or alerts them to important points coming up.
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