Learning Lingo
- active learning
- anything that students do in a classroom other than merely passively listening to an instructor's lecture
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: active learning, mobile learning, experiential learning, hands-on learning
- backward design
- a teaching method where the teacher begins with the end goal or objective and designs instruction to develop and later assess the goal or objective
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: backwards design, UbD, understanding by design
- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework
- guidance for enhancing the rigor of K-12 civics, economics, geography, and history instruction emphasizing the acquisition and application of knowledge to prepare students for college, career, and civic life; envisions social studies instruction as an inquiry arc of four interlocking and mutually reinforcing dimensions—Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries, Applying Disciplinary Tools and Concepts, Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence, and Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: C3 Framework, College, Career, and Civic Life Framework
- direct instruction
- speaking to students to convey information
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: teacher centered, lecture, direct instruction
- experiential learning
- experiential learning is an approach to education that focuses on "learning by doing," on the participant's subjective experience
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: active learning, hands-on, experiential learning
- formative assessment
- a technique that uses questioning, without a summative assessment or grade, to inform instruction and provide the learner with timely or immediate feedback
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: formative assessment
- hands-on
- designing activities so that students are actively involved in the project or experiment
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: hands on, hands-on, hands on participation, hands-on participation, hands on learning, hands-on learning, active learning, experiential learning
- inquiry-based learning
- students arrive at an understanding of concepts by themselves and the responsibility for learning rests with them; the method encourages students to build research skills that can be used throughout their educational experience
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: inquiry guided learning, inquiry-guided learning, inquiry based learning, inquiry-based learning
- integrated projects
- comprehensive demonstrations of skills and knowledge learned during a unit or over time including a series of connected interdisciplinary activities involving "in class" and "out of class" time
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: integrated projects
- performance task
- an activity requiring a student to demonstrate what they know or can do; small in scope
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: performance task
- questioning
- questions around instruction to engage or assess student understanding, may be done orally or written
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: questioning, multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, essential questions, higher order questions
- reflective learning
- the process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, and which results in a changed conceptual perspective
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: reflective learning, reflective practice, journaling, presenting, presentation
- Three-Dimensional (3D) Learning
- the intentional integration of three distinct dimensions—Science and Engineering Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts—enabling students to view science as an interrelated world of inquiry and phenomena
- Synonyms & Keyword Search Terms: 3D learning, three-dimensional learning