Professional Development & Education Theories

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Across
  1. 2. period of time when infants and toddlers seek basic motor and sensory experiences
  2. 5. teachers apply new knowledge and receive feedback, while obtaining ongoing data to reflect how teaching practices influence students learning
  3. 6. period of time when children begin to think more logically, but have a hard time understanding abstract and hypothetical concepts
  4. 7. period of time when children spend more time playing and pretending, but still have trouble thinking logically and seeing things from different perspectives
  5. 8. teachers learn together in a supportive community in which curriculum is organized according to grade level and subject
  6. 10. period of time involving a dramatic increase in logical thinking
  7. 14. evaluation made with a specific purpose in mind
  8. 15. should support attainment of technical skills and educational competencies
  9. 17. provide professional feedback on a teacher’s performance
Down
  1. 1. continuous process of acquiring new knowledge and skills relating to the profession, job responsibilities and the work environment
  2. 3. skills and knowledge acquired on the job
  3. 4. general teacher evaluations performed by an evaluator such as a principal or assistant principal
  4. 9. cohesive, repeatable action sequence possessing component action which are tightly interconnected and governed by a core meaning
  5. 11. process of altering the existing schemas in order to deal with new objects or information
  6. 12. student is self sufficient and has complete responsibility for their own learning experience
  7. 13. process of taking in new information into the already existing schemas
  8. 16. student is reliant on the instructor for learning