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Intrinsic
Existing within oneself.
Emotional, Intellectual
Extrinsic
Coming from the outside.
Job security, Vacations
Professionalism
A specialized body of knowledge.
Autonomy- capacity to control one's own life.
Emphasis on decision making and reflection.
Ethical standards for conduct.
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
The ability to illustrate abstract concepts, such as equiv fractions or nationalism in history, in ways that are understandable to students.
Autonomy
The capacity to control one's own professional life.
Curriculum
What teachers teach
Assessment
How a students understanding is measured
Standards
Statements specifying what students should know and be able to do upon completing an area of study
Reflection
Thinking about and analyzing your actions
Ethics
A set of moral standards for acceptable professional behavior
SES
Parent's:
Income
Level of Education
Jobs they have
Reforms
Suggested changes in teaching and teacher preparation intended to increase student learning.
NCLB
2001. Improved teacher quality as a major provision.
AYP
An accountability system that tests students growth in reading and math.
Licensure
Process by which state evaluates the credentials of prospective teachers.
Alternate Licensure
provides a shorter route to teaching for those who already possess a bachelor's degree
Professional Portfolio
A collection of materials representative of one's work.
Digital Portfolio
Allows you to compress large amounts of information in to a computer file.
Resume
A document that provides a clear and concise overview of a person's job qualifications and work experience.
Credentials File
a collection of important personal documents teachers submit when they apply for teaching positions.
Induction Programs
Professional experiences for beginning teachers that offer assistance to ease the transition into teaching.
Mentors
experienced teachers who provide support for beginning teachers.
Formative Evalutaion
process of gathering information and providing feedback that teachers can use to improve their practice.
Summative Evaluation
process of gathering information about a teacher's competence for the purpose of making decisions about retention promotion.
Merit Pay
a supplement to a teacher's base salary used to reward exemplary performance.
NEA
1857, guidance counselors, librarians, and administrators.
AFT
1916, teach in urban areas. No administrators allowed.
Career Ladder System
a series of professional steps that involve teachers in leadership responsibilities.
Action Research
form of applied research designed to answer a specific classroom or school.
Certification
special recognition by a professional organization indicating that an individual has met rigorous requirements specified by the organization.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
1987, k-12 teachers, includes union and business leaders, and university faculty. Raise quality of teaching.
Latchkey Children
Children who return to empty houses after school and who are left alone until parents arrive from work.
SES
combination of family income, parents occupation, and level of parental education.
Upper Class
Highly educated, highly paid professionals. 170K and up. 5% of population, but 60% of wealth.
Middle Class
managers, administrators, white-collar workers. 40K-170K. 40%
Working Class
25K-40K. 33%. Blue-collar jobs, construction, factory work. College-1/3 of children.
Lower Class
Less than 25K. Low-paying, entry-level jobs. 20% and increasing. Often depend on public assistance.
Underclass
Continually struggle with economic problems. Very hard to escape from this class.
Poverty Thresholds
Household income levels that represent the lowest earnings required to meet basic living standards.
Sexual Harassment
unwanted and/or unwelcome sexually-oriented behavior that interferes with a student's life.
Bullying
involves a systematic or repetitious abuse of power between students.
Zero-tolerance Policies
which call for students to receive automatic suspensions or expulsions as punishment for certain offenses. Weapons, threats, or drugs.
At-risk Students
in danger of failing to complete their education with the skills necessary to function effectively in modern society.
Full-service Schools
serve as family resource centers that provide a range of social and health services.
Full-service Schools
serve as family resource centers that provide a range of social and health services.
Resilient Students
at-risk students who have been able to rise above adverse conditions to succeed in school and in other aspects of life.
Culture
Knowledge, attitudes, values, customs, and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.
Cultural Diversity
refers to the different cultures you'll encounter in classrooms and how these cultural differences influence learning.
Ethnicity
A person's ancestry, the way people identify themselves with the nation they or their ancestors came from
Assimilation
A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior.
Multicultural Education
describes a variety of strategies schools use to accommodate cultural difference in teaching and learning.
Culturally Responsive Teaching
instruction that acknowledges and capitalizes on cultural diversity.
Accepting and valuing cultural differences.
Accommodating different patterns of cultural interaction.
Building on students' cultural backgrounds.
Accepting and valuing cultural differences.
Accommodating different patters of cultural interaction.
English Language Learners (ELLs)
Students whose first language in not English and who need help in learning to speak, read, and write in English.
Bilingual maintenance language programs
place the greatest emphasis on using and sustaining the first language while teaching English.
Immersion
Students learn English by being "immersed" in classrooms where English is the only language spoken.
ESL
Pull-out programs where students receive supplementary English instruction in content areas.
Transition
Students learn to read in first language and are given supplementary instruction in English as a second language. Once English mastered, placed in regular classrooms and first language is discontinued.
Gender Bias
A difference in academics between boys and girls.
Gender-role Identity
Describes societal differences in expectations and beliefs about appropriate roles and behaviors of the two sexes.
Stereotype
rigid, simplistic caricature of a particular group of people.
Single-Sex classes and schools
where boys and girls are segregated for part or all of the day.
Development
the physical, intellectual, moral, emotional, and social changes that occur in students as a result of maturation and experience.
Cognitive Development
refers to changes in students' thinking as they mature and acquire experiences.
Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory
describes how students' thinking changes over time and how experiences contribute to development.
Moral Development
students' changing conceptions of right and wrong
External Morality
children view rules as fixed, permanent, and enforced by authority figures
Autonomous Morality
they develop rational ideas of fairness and see justice as a reciprocal process of treating others as they would want to be treated.
Personal Development
refers to changes in our personalities and our ability to manage our feelings, and influences the way we interact with our physical and social environments.
Social Development
the changes over time in the ways we relate to others.
Parenting Styles
General patters of interacting with the disciplining children, promote more healthy personal and social development than others.
Authoritative
Firm but caring, consistent. Explain reasons for rules. High expectations
Authoritarian
stress conformity, detached. Don't explain rules. don't encourage verbal give-and-take.
Permissive
give children total freedom. Hold few expectations. make few demands on children
Uninvolved
have little interest in children's lives. Hold few expectations.
Multiple Intelligences
which suggests that overall intelligence is composed of eight relatively independent dimensions.
Intelligence
the capacity to acquire and use knowledge, solve problems, and reason in the abstract.
Ability Grouping
the practice of placing students of similar abilities into groups and matching instruction to the needs of each group.
Between-class ability grouping
divides all students in a given grade level into groups, such as high, medium, and low.
Within-class ability grouping
divides students within one classroom into ability groups.
Tracking
places students in a series of classes or curricula on the basis of ability and career goals.
Learning Style
preferred way of learning and studying.
Metacognition
refers to students' awareness of the ways they learn most effectively and their ability to control these factors.
Students with exceptionalities
learners who need special help to reach their full potential.
Disabilities
functional limitations or an inability to perform a certain act, such as hear, walk.
Giftedness
abilities at the upper end of the continuum that require support beyond regular classroom instruction to reach full potential.
Special Education
instruction designed to meet the unique needs of students with exceptionalities.
Mainstreaming
the practice of placing students with exceptionalities from segregated settings in regular education classrooms.
Inclusion
comprehensive approach to educating students with exceptionalities that incorporates a total, systematic, and coordinated web or services.
IEP
Assessment of student's current level of performance. Long- and short-term objectives. Services or strategies to ensure student's academic progress. Schedules to implement plan, criteria for evaluating the plan's success.
IFSP
Targets same type of planned care as IEP, but targets preschool children.
Gifted and Talented
the upper end of the ability continuum and need special services to reach their full potential.
Acceleration
keeps the curriculum the same but allows students to move through it more quickly.
Enrichment
provides richer and varied content through strategies that supplement usual grade-level work.
Discrepancy model
looks for differences in: performance in classroom and scores on standardized tests. Scores on intelligence and achievement tests. Intelligence scores and classroom achievement. Subtests on either intelligence or achievement tests.
Response to intervention model of identification
RTI begins at start of school year with pretesting designed to identify any potential learning problems early.
Collaboration
communication and decision making among educational professionals to create an optimal learning environment for students with excepionalities.
Old Deluder Satan Act
required every town of 50 or more households to hire a teacher of reading and writing.
Common School Movement
historical attempt to make education available to all children in the United States.
Normal Schools
2-year institutions developed in early 1800's to prepare prospective elementary teachers.
Comprehensive High School
secondary school that attempts to meet the needs of all students by housing the together and providing curricular options geared towards a variety of ability levels and interests.
Latin Grammar School
College-prep school designed to help boys prepare for the ministry or a career in law. No girls
Academy
secondary school that focused on the practical needs or colonial America.
English Classical School
free secondary school designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college.
Junior High Schools
provide unique academic curriculum for early adolescents. Grades 7,8,9
Middle Schools
grades 6,7,8 designed to meet the unique social, emotional, and intellectual needs of early adolescents.
Assimilation
process of socializing people to adopt dominant society's social norms and patterns of behavior.
Separate but Equal
formalized the segregation of Af Am in education, transportation, housing, and other aspects of public life.
War on Poverty
General term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during the 1960's.
Compensatory Education Programs
gov't attempts to create equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
Head Start
federal compensatory education program designed to help 3- to 5-year old disadvantaged children enter school ready to learn.