K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education
- Classroom
- Curriculum
- Online Courses
- My LEARN NC
- realia
- Tangible and original objects or artifacts that can be used as instructional aids.
- research cycle
- Research method that emphasizes information problem-solving and positions students as information producers (versus information consumers). Students repeatedly revisit stages in the research cycle as they refine data gathering processes.
- rime
- The clustering of vowels and consonants after the initial consonant sound or sounds of a word.
- role-play
- Teaching method wherein students pretend to be different characters and improvise a scene.
- rubric
- A scoring guide for evaluating student work made up of definitions of quality work, well-defined criteria for measuring quality work, and a scoring method (using numbers or descriptive language such as excellent, good, etc.) to indicate level of performance.
