Ch13 Analyzing Reflective Teaching Test Bank Docx

Student name:__________

1) _______________ allows reflective teachers to critique their teaching by obtaining clear and detailed information about various effective teaching aspects.

2) Collecting information on feedback and lesson content development are considered ________ techniques.

3) ___________ allow teachers to reflect on teaching with the support of other teachers.

4) ___________ is the information the teacher provides to individual or small groups of children about the quality of their movement or behavior, based on observation.

5) ____________ feedback has to do with either the child's skill or the child's behavior.

6) Teachers improve by

A) asking other teachers to observe them.
B) asking children to provide feedback about their teaching.
C) thinking about their teaching.
D) all of the choices are correct.

7) The teacher feedback form in Children Moving can be used to

A) determine which children you provide feedback to.
B) determine if your feedback is positive, negative or neutral.
C) determine if your feedback is congruent or incongruent.
D) determine if your feedback is about skill or behavior.
E) all of the choices are true.

8) Children can assist you by gathering the following information about your teaching:

A) where you travel on the playground or in the gym
B) who you interact with during a lesson
C) whether your lesson was effective or not
D) where you travel on the playground or in the gym and who you interact with during a lesson

9) Duration recording provides an analysis of

A) the percentage of students who were on and off task in a lesson.
B) the number and sequence of tasks, cues and challenges that were used in a lesson.
C) congruent and incongruent teacher feedback.
D) how the majority of students spent their time in a lesson.

10) "Daryl, good level swing" would be coded as what type of feedback if a teacher was teaching striking a ball with a bat?

A) general, positive
B) positive, symmetrical, refinement
C) specific, skill, positive, congruent
D) positive, incongruent, reflective

11) Self reflection does which of the following?

A) allows the student to reflect and act upon their successes
B) allows the teacher to use journals to maintain records of thought
C) provides feedback from others who observe you
D) provides infrequent times to reflect regarding one's teaching effectiveness

12) What is the difference between self reflection vs. systematic observation?

A) systematic observation allows more objective information
B) self reflection allows more information about those concerns
C) self reflection provides more formal and reliable information
D) systematic observation cannot be performed on you own

13) Effective teachers exhibit all of the following characteristics except:

A) communicate enthusiastic presentations
B) move the class forward with determined direction
C) communicate realistic expectations
D) are often unclear and unenthusiastic

14) Unassisted techniques of observation include all of the following except:

A) feedback analysis
B) tape-recording for self-analysis
C) lesson content
D) teacher pathway

15) "Marilyn, remember to keep you eye on the ball, while teaching a lesson focused on ‘side to target' represents which type of feedback?

A) specific, skill corrective, incongruent
B) specific, skill, positive, congruent
C) specific, corrective, skill, congruent
D) general, positive

16) Which of the following are considered Student Assisted Techniques?

A) teacher pathway and interaction patterns
B) tape recording
C) feedback analysis
D) systematic observation

17) Instruction time, management time, activity time, and waiting time are categories of:

A) Duration recording system
B) Practice Opportunities
C) Feedback Checklist
D) Student-assisted techniques

18) Changing activities or listening for the roll call is an example of:

A) activity time
B) instruction time
C) management time
D) waiting time

19) When being observed while teaching, which of the following can be effective for proper feedback?

A) using a colleague that is judgmental
B) someone who is a friend and/or someone you're willing to expose good and bad points
C) another teacher who is grading papers
D) a parent you have just met who knows little about physical education

20) Teacher Support groups can effectively do which of the following except?

A) reassurance
B) provide comfort
C) share your excitement
D) totally reduce teaching to specific formulas of behavior

21) In your own words describe the reflection cycle? What three aspects are included in it?

22) Why is the use of systematic observation without a clear purpose of improving teaching to improve student learning counterproductive? Provide a teaching/learning scenario when this might occur.

23) What are professional learning communities? What is their value? What might be a professional learning community focus that would support a new teacher?