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