Test required by Elementary Education

 

 

Elementary Education: Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment Test at a Glance

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Probable Test Items:

Formative/summative Assessment

How to write observable objectives (never state students will learn...as learning is not observable.  Rather state students will be able to solve x problems correctly in x amount of time)

Be aware of PA state standards and what material is likely to be covered in what grades.

Phonemic Awareness, levels of reading, recommended teaching methods from the teaching reading research

Bloom's Taxonomy

Components of a lesson

Erikson

Kohlberg- this link takes you out of this website, just click back to get back to this page.  Or, click here: Kohlberg II

Maslow's heirarchy of needs

Piaget

Vygotsky

Descriptions of teaching strategies (e.g., KWL, comparison and contrast, concept mapping & other graphic organizers, uses of technology, questioning techniques, guided instruction, modeling, etc.** Click here for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Test at a Glance)

Glossary of Terms

Glossary of Terms I - this link takes you out of this website, just click back to get back to this page

Glossary of terms III

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