Why don’t teachers learn what learners learn? taking the guesswork out with action logging
Read the text and identify what “gold mine” the author has discovered.
Vocabulary Enrichment
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action log
action research
appropriation
assignment
background music
beneficial
choral repetition
chunking
commitment
dynamics
efficacy
efficient
entry
enunciation
feedback (positive and negative)
inefficiency
input
instruction
kinesthetic learners
newsletter
non-verbal language
perception
perspective
procedure
rapport
retention
selective listening
session
to adjust to
to attest to the effectiveness
to be secondary to
to bridge the gap
to call / answer roll
to deem
to elicit information from
to have impact on
to initiate
to memorize
to recycle language / information
to recycle the content
to reflect
to review
to take charge of
to write an account
ultimate
Make sure you can explain the following terms:
action log, action research, feedback, selective listening, non-verbal language, kinesthetic learners.
Match the following definitions with the proper words from the list:
A mental view of the relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole………
A printed report, usually issued at regular intervals, giving news about or information of interest to a particular group………
Acting effectively with a minimum of waste or effort………
An established series of steps, a certain way of getting something done………
Bringing benefit: helpful………
Final: conclusive; most extreme: greatest; fundamental: basic………
Information put into a communications or computer system; contribution to a common effort………
Of the 2nd rank: inferior; not primary or original: derivative………
Return of data about the result of a process, especially for correction or control; the data so returned………
To be evidence of………
To bring out or call forth: evoke………
To cause to begin: start or launch; to introduce (someone) to a new interest or activity………
To commit to memory………
To pronounce, especially with clarity………
Odd one out:
To memorize, get by heart, assign, learn by rote;
To recycle, reuse, reprocess, utilize;
To review, deem, assess, write a critique of;
Perception, reception, awareness, grasp;
Session, assembly, exam, sitting;
Secondary, subordinate, inferior, superior;
Procedure, placement, plan of action, modus operandi;
Rapport, report, relationship, sympathy;
To deem, reckon, regard, recycle;
Perspective, retention, outlook, attitude;
Commitment, involvement, appropriation, dedication;
Efficiency, efficacy, skillfulness, enunciation;
To initiate, review, commence, launch;
Assignment, appointment, chunking, duty;
Ultimate, beneficial, terminal, eventual.
Fill in the blanks with the following words: adjustment, assignment, attest, efficacy, eliciting, enunciate, feedback, impact, instruction, instruction, memorized.
The task may produce a lasting … on students.
The … of group work was evident.
During half of the class the students were involved in peer ….
Test grades … to the effectiveness of ….
Please, … it slower and louder.
These rules are to be ….
The … was a two page essay.
This lesson plan needs some ….
The exercises are aimed at … information from the text.
A questionnaire may serve as a means of gaining student ….