Pedagogy Quiz 1
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The term Pedagogy is derived from two Greek words, "Paidos", which means child, and "Agogos", which means leader or guide. So originally or historically, the term referred to someone who used to lead or guide children. While, in the modern sense, Pedagogy refers to the art or science of teaching, which includes different teaching methods, principles, and practices.
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Vocational Education, also known as Career and Technical Education (CTE), is a type of education that trains individuals in specific skills and knowledge required for a particular job or trade. Such type of education is given through practical and hands-on training in many fields such as carpentry, automobile repairing, electrical work, information technology, plumbring, healthcare, and culinary arts etc.
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The Didactic Triangle is a teaching model in education, according to which, the teaching involves three main components: teacher, student, and content. In the absence of any of these components, no teaching or learning activity can take place. They are interdependent to make a teaching or learning activity possible.
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In educational sense, Pragmatism refers to 'learning by doing'. John Dewey and W.H. Kilpatrick, two American philosophers and Educators, were the main exponents of Pragmatism (in education) and Project Method respectively.
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Every classroom has students with varied or different learning needs, interests, and strengths. A Differentiated Instruction recognizes those varied learning needs of the students, and provides instructions based on those varied needs, so that each student can learn according to his/her individual strengths.
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Inductive Method develops logic, thinking, and reasoning, because it involves drawing general conclusions or principles from particular facts or observations. Example: Let's suppose, first having observed: "In all the episodes of the series so far, the protagonist has consistently acted with honesty." Then having concluded: "Therefore, it can be inferred that he will keep acting with honesty in the remaining episodes as well."
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A Flipped Classroom is the inversion of traditional learning, in which the content consumption is done at home, while the discussion and application is done in the class. The main agenda behind this inversion is to have more time for classroom discussion and activities.
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Authentic Assessment is a type of assessment in which the learners are required to apply their knowledge and skills in real life scenarios. Some examples include: Performing science experiments, doing projects, interpreting literary works, and participating in debates etc.
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Formative Assessment is used to monitor and provide feedback to students learning progress. Classroom quiz is one of the most common example of formative assessment. Through a quiz, a teacher can easily assess the learning progress of his/her students.
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Summative Assessment is also known as Assessment of Learning. It is typically conducted at the end of an instructional or educational period such as at the end of semester, typically in the form of final exam.
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Content Validity refers to how well an assessment or a test is the representative of all the topics of a particular knowledge domain it is intended to measure. Let's suppose, a teacher wants to assess the knowledge of his students about the 'History of English Literature' through a test. Now, in order to ensure the Content Validity of the test, the test must include questions from every literary age. And, in case, the test fails in covering all the literary ages, it will lack the Content Validity.
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Student Portfolio is a collection of student's work that is gathered or collected over time. It shows their overall progress, achievements, and understanding in a specific or various subjects. It commonly contains works like written assignments, presentations, projects, and other such works that show students development and progress over time.
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Scaffolding in education refers to a temporary support that a teacher provides to his students in order to help them in reaching higher level of understanding by learning new skills and concepts. This support or guidance is removed as soon as the students develop confidence, and show competence in applying the learned knowledge independently.
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In a Democratic Classroom, the power is shifted from teachers to students since it is a type of classroom that is characterized by empowering students, and giving them voice, often through involving them in decisions making regarding the classroom rules and regulations.
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According to Reinforcement Theory of Motivation, behaviors of individuals are the results of their consequences, and therefore, the behavior of any individual can be altered or modified by the use of certain techniques such as reinforcement, punishment, and extinction.
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Proximity Control is a classroom management strategy in which the teacher gets closer to his/her students for managing their behavior and maintaining their focus. This strategy plays an effective role in preventing students from engaging in disruptive and off-task activities.
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that guides educators to plan such learning experiences that provide all students an equal opportunity to be successful, regardless of their abilities, disabilities, and learning styles.
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Bloom's Taxonomy is the classification of learning objectives into three domains, namely Cognitive Domain, Affective Domain, and Psychomotor Domain. These domains are then divided into different sub-levels according to the complexity of each sub-level, e.g. Cognitive Domain is divided into Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation, where "Knowledge" is the lowest, while "Evaluation" is the highest level of domain.
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Analysis is the fourth level of Cognitive Domain of Bloom's Taxonomy, which involves breaking down a piece of information into smaller components in order to identify patterns and relations between them, e.g. Identifying the recurring themes in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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In the revised edition of Bloom's Taxonomy (2001), the "Nouns" were replaced by "Action Verbs". For example, "Application" was replaced by "Apply". Also, "Synthesis" was replaced by "Create", and made the highest level of Cognitive Domain instead of "Evaluation".
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