Deck 6: Critical Teaching Skills for Promoting Active Participation

Question 1

Active participation responses are infrequent.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which one of the following is NOT part of the definition of active participation?

A) Strategies are directly related to the content of the lesson.
B) Strategies require responses that are active rather than passive.
C) Strategies must be varied in type.
D) Strategies are used frequently during presentations.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following methods should be included in a mini-lesson for teaching active participation response strategies?

A) asking divergent questions
B) preteaching key terms
C) connecting to personal experience
D) None of these are correct.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Not everyone is participating when you use active participation strategies.You should:

A) consider 80% participation a success.
B) retest student to see if the content is too difficult.
C) expect participation-practice the strategy if needed.
D) know that chances are that students will participate over

Question 5

Active participation responses occur during teacher presentations rather than after or instead of presentations.

Question 6

Some active participation strategies ask students to respond orally one at a time.

Question 7

Active participation responses are always covert.

Question 8

You have ELLs in your class.Which of the following should you avoid?

A) asking questions that require long sentences in response
B) asking questions with yes/no responses
C) asking for "tell your neighbor" responses
D) None of these are correct.

Question 9

All students are NOT required to respond when you are using unison or choral active participation responses.

Question 10

You are going to be presenting rather complex information in your lesson tomorrow.Which of the following active participation strategies would work the best to help students process the new learning?

A) Buzz groups
B) Numbered heads together
C) Think-pair-share
D) All of these are correct.

Question 11

Which of the following about active participation is true?

A) One of the main purposes of active participation is to help English language learners.
B) While it may help to keep students on task, it does not impact achievement.
C) It is mostly useful for students who have trouble paying attention as it can help keep them involved.
D) It can help students stay on task and it does impact achievement.

Question 12

Mrs.Lopez teaches students what "setting" means and then reads them brief stories.Which of the following would be the best active participation strategy to use?

A) asking the class to close their eyes and picture the setting of the story
B) asking the class to put hands on head when they hear the setting described
C) calling on both boys and girls to describe the settings in the stories
D) assigning students to bring in photos or drawings of each setting

Question 13

Active participation responses are made by all of the students at once.

Question 14

Three types of active participation strategies are written, oral, and signaled.

Question 15

Best practice recommends that teachers ask students for active responses seven times per minute.

Question 16

Many of your students do not pay attention when you are presenting.Which of the following would be the best active participation strategy to try?

A) asking questions frequently
B) calling on nonvolunteers to answer
C) having students use response cards
D) putting students in small groups

Question 17

If students show confusion during a lesson, increase their opportunities to rehearse or process information.

Question 18

Some of the following are examples of active participation, some are not.  Mark them as follows:
YES = it is an active participation strategy          NO = it is not an active participation strategy
Students all write answers on a worksheet after the lesson.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 19

Avoid using active participation strategies if you have students with special behavioral needs in your class.

Question 20

Active participation responses are overt student responses such as speaking, writing, and signaling.

Question 22

Students choral read the directions for the homework assignment.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 23

Compare and contrast involvement strategies, rehearsal strategies, and processing strategies.Include examples of each strategy.

Question 24

Students hold up fingers to represent the number of syllables heard in each word said by the teacher.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 25

Students call out answers to multiplication problems said by the teacher.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 26

Define active participation .Be sure to thoroughly describe and give examples of each of its characteristics.

Question 27

Should all active participation response strategies be taught to students? Why or why not?

Question 28

How do you decide how many active participation strategies should be included in a lesson or activity?

Question 29

Students arrange and rearrange fraction bars to match written fractions in the workbook.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 30

Students find a partner and play tic-tac-toe.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 31

Active participation strategies can be categorized by the type of response they require.Name the three types of strategies categorized by type of response.

Question 32

You plan for your students to work together to draw a map of the school to scale as a way to practice measurement skills.Is this a good example of an active participation strategy? Why or why not?

Question 33

Students play a partner math game to practice the concept taught.

A) Yes
B) No

Question 34

What is one way the diversity of your class will affect the active participation strategies you choose to use?