| A | B |
|---|
| Knowledge of learners | Teachers use their knowledge of learning theories to inform their teaching. |
| Knowledge about Literacy | Teachers understand current research and theories about literacy instruction and apply their knowledge to their teaching. |
| Learning Environment | Teachers establish a community of learners in their classroom that's safe, supportive, inclusive, and democratic. |
| Instructional Resources | Teachers collect, create, and add to their materials to enrich the instructional programs. |
| Behaviorist Teacher | This teacher is teacher-centered and uses incentives and rewards for motivation. |
| Constructivist Teacher | This teacher is student-centered and suggest ways to engage students and their curiosity toward learning. |
| Balanced Teacher | This teacher looks at what the curriculum and the student needs to determine how the material will be taught. |
| Schema Theory | This theory describes how one learns. |
| Assimilation | Means you have some knowledge about what is being learned so it is easier to learn as you already have file folder created in your brain. |
| Accommodation | This means that the information you are learning is brand new and you have not file folders in your brain, so you have to create them to learn something. |
| Zone of proximal development | This is the zone of learning that is at the child's instructional level. |
| Self-efficacy Theory | The theory states that you believe if you try you will be successful no matter how hard the work is. |
