Chapter 3

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Advanced Organizer

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Structure providing a preview of the upcoming lesson.

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Analogy

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A logical comparison inferring that if two things are known to be alike in some ways, then they must be alike in other ways.

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Collaborate

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To work together.

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Critical thinking

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Evaluating information and logically solving problems.

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Curiculum

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What we teach.

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Discourse

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Verbal expression in speech or writing.

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Domain

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Related area.

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Eclectic

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Using a variety of sources

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Empower

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To have control or be confident in one's own abilities.

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Explicit

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Clearly defined or direct

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Feedback

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Information about the result of a performance.

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Graphic organizer

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Visual overview that shows the relationship of important concepts for example, webbing or mapping.

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Heterogeneous grouping

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Grouping students with unlike characteristics or abilities.

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Homogeneous grouping

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Grouping students with like characteristics or abilities.

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Implicit

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Implied or suggested but not directly indicated.

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Impulsivity

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A tendency to respond quickly without thinking.

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Instruction

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How we teach the curriculum.

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Internalize

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To take in or absorb and make part of one's beliefs or attitudes.

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Learner Centered or Student Centered

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Teaching style focusing on the needs of the students.

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Modality

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Preferred ways of learning such as seeing hearing, touching, or moving.

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Objectivity

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Perceiving something without being influenced by personal opinions.

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Paradigm

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An example, pattern, or framework for thinking.

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Pedagogy

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The art, profession, or study of teaching.

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Precocious

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Advanced in development

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Proficiency

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Correctly demonstrating a skill.

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Project learning

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An in depth study in an area of interest done independently or in small groups.

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Rationale

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Reason behind a lesson or rule.

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Reflection

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To think back and carefully consider specifics of teaching and learning.

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Rote learning

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Memorizing facts or associations.

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Scope

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Amount covered by a given activity or subject.

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Self directed learner

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The process of gradually shifting responsibility for learning to the students through activities that engage them in increasingly complex patterns of thought.

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Student ownership

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Taking control of the learning processs

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Subjectivity

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Based on personal opinions or feelings rather than on external facts or evidence.

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Teacher centered

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Traditional teaching style in which teachers make all of the decisions focusing on the subject.

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Technology

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Any device used to complete an objective or task not exclusively computers.

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Terminology

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Vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field.

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Vicarious learning

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Learning by watching someone else, without direct experience.

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Accountability

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Holding teachers and schools responsible for students learning.

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Administrators

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Superintendent principals, and other supervisors who carr out policies of the school board in a school district.

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At-risk

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Describes a student with a greater than usual chance of having difficulty in school due to factors such as limited English proficiency, cultural diversity, poverty, race, homelssness, or teen pregnancy.

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Charter school

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Experimental schools operating by contract or charter receiving public funds but following different rules than public schools.

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Compensatory education

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Special programs for at-risk students such as remedial instruction, special activities, or early learning experiences.

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Compulsory education

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School attendance required by law for every child ages 6-19

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Confidentiality

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Keeping certain information private only between people involved

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Ethics

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Principals of good behavior explaining how one should act in certain situations.

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Inclusion

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Including special needs students in regular classroom for all or part of the day

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Mentor

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An established teacher given the job of advising a new teacher or a person who serves in a counseling role for a student

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Modification

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Adjustment for students who are in need

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Novice

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Someone who is new or inexperienced

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Professionalism

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Conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a career

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Title I

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Federally funded programs for students needing extra help.

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Vertical teaming

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Planning with teachers from other grade levels to eliminate curriculum gaps and or voerlaps

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Horizontal teaming

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Planning with teachers from the same grade level or the same subject are to guarantee consistency with the disctrict or school.

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Team teaching

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Two or more teachers planning and sharing materials and resources to deliver instruction more effectively.

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Mentoring

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Using experienced teachers to gude, advise and help new teachers

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Intergration teaming

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Working with collegues to develop interdisciplinary units of instruction.

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Acceptable Use Policy

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School districts policy for use of school resources, especially school computers and the Internet, must be signed by students and parents.

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Bookmark Favorite

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A time saving Internet feature to keep an address or URL you wish to return to later

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Distance education

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Linking students and teachers in different locations through technology to facilitate learning

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Hardware

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The physical part of the computer

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Hyperlink

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An element in an electronic document or website that moves the viewer to another place in the same cdocument or to an entriely different document or website

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Hypertext

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Nonsequential text presentation

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Hypermedial

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Special type of database program that combines text, graphics, sound, and video elements into a product with clickable links to present ideas aand information

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Hyperstudio

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Authoring system software originally designed for kids to produce hypermedia

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Input device

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Translates information into a form that the computer can understand , ie keyboard, mouse

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Local Area Network LAN

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A network in which the computers that are connected are close to each other, many times within the same building or campus.

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Linking

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Navigating from one place to another in a nonlinear fashion through related topics.

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Network Interface Card NiC

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Connects computers to a network or shared devices, applications, peripherals

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Output device

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Translates processed information into a form that the we can understand, ie monitor

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Search string

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A phrase using AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR that narrows or broadens an Internet search

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Software

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The programs that instruct the computer to do certain jobs

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Webcam

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Camera that can be conected tot he Internet for continuous images

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Wide Area network WAN

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A network tht extends over a long distance

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Technology literacy

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skills required for competent use of technology

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Information literacy

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knowing how to define locate use and analyze information to accomplish a goal