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Picture yourself as the recently appointed principal of a struggling school grappling with underwhelming academic achievements and disheartened educators. Armed with recent school data that underscores the urgency for substantial transformation, you’re steadfast in your resolve to effect a complete turnaround and uplift the morale of your teaching staff, even in the face of formidable obstacles. You are tasked with outlining your thoughts in a memo to the teacher leaders. Your memo should cover the following points: A detailed description of the data, including academic trends and a summary of the school’s strengths and weaknesses as supported by the data. A plan for professional development with a rationale supported by the data. A detailed implementation plan that includes progress monitoring and continuous improvement. An outreach program that involves all stakeholders in the decision-making process. Year Reading 3 and Above Reading Gains Lowest 25% Math 3 and Above Math Gains Lowest 25%       Making Reading Gains     Making Math Gains 1 33 45 27 25 44 33 2 34 45 30 27 47 31 3 36 47 33 33 49 30 4 31 46 33 36 52 31 5 29 44 35 36 51 29 6 29 44 37 37 53 30 Your memo should address these points and outline your strategic approach to change the culture to a positive one and uplift the school’s overall performance and teacher morale.

The practice of instituting professional learning communities into the fabric of schools has become: 1. a way of establishing collaborative groups that focus on student achievement 2. an effort to eliminate the “silo effect” that is present in many educational environments 3. an effort to create time for educators to meet and collaborate 4. all of the above

The psychomotor domain includes primarily: 1. intellectual skills 2. emotional skills 3. physical skills 4. memorization skills

Examples of differential aptitudes include all except: 1. intelligence quotient 2. verbal reasoning 3. spatial relations 4. language usage

One objection to the use of behavioral objectives is that they: 1. complicate sequencing 2. complicate evaluation 3. decrease preciseness 4. restrict creativity

The introductory activities of a lesson would likely include all the following except: reviewing key points from the previous day’s lesson. stating the objectives of the lesson. having students working and discussing in small groups. making a connection between the day’s lesson and students’ lives.

Anchored learning is: 1. Students work in teams to solve a problem or develop expertise leading to a solution, all based on background knowledge that has been demonstrated. 2. The most efficient initial presentation of information for learning is engaging a student’s eyes and ears at the same time. 3. Learning targets should not be too easy or too challenging, but just right for the learner. 4. In planning instruction break the intended learning into parts and introduce them in an order that is spaced and makes sense for integration.

An action statement, a condition statement, and a criterion statement are components that should be included when constructing: behavioral objectives. subject-specific course goals. learning objectives. instructional goals.

The type of question that tends to have only one correct or best answer is: divergent questions. convergent questions. focusing questions. probing questions.

A standards based instructional plan begins with identifying: 1. standard or curriculum objectives 2. learning resources 3. assessments 4. strategies