PPR Vocab

PPR Vocab

1. Teachers

   • Pedagogy
     • The art, profession, or study of teaching.
   • Teacher-centered
     • Traditional teaching style in which teachers make all of the decisions focusing on the subject
   • Curriculum
     • What we teach
   • Instruction
     • How we teach the curriculum
   • Rationale
     • Reason behind a lesson or rule
   • Scope
     • Amount covered by one lesson or activity
   • Self-directed learning
     • The process of gradually shifting responsibilities for learning to the students through activities that engage them in increasingly complex patterns of thought.
   • Explicit
     • Clearly defined or direct.

2. Students

   • Empowerment
     • To have control or be confident in one's abilites
   • Proficiency
     • Correctly demonstrating a skill
   • Precocious
     • Advanced in development
   • Feedback
     • Information about the result of a performance
   • Learner-centered/ Student-centered
     • Teaching style focusing on the needs of the students.
   • Student ownership
     • Taking control of the learning process
   • Modality/Modalities
     • Preferred way(s) of learning such as seeing (visual), hearing (auditory), touching (tactile), or moving (kinesthetic).