Chapter 10 Teachers, Schools And Society (2)

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Metacognition

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Thinking about the process of one’s own thinking. #################################################################################################

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multicultural education

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Educational policies and practices that not only recognize but also affirm human differences and similarities associated with gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, and class.

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

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A federal law passed in 2001 that emphasizes high-stakes standardized testing by requiring schools to annually assess students' achievement in reading, math, and science. Schools report not only individual test scores, but also scores by race, ethnicity, disability, social class, and limited English proficiency.

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null curriculum

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Topics considered unimportant or too controversial, inappropriate or not worth the time, and therefore not taught . This curriculum is not taught in schools, like some history present and past, or when theory of evolution or sex education is not taught.

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Opportunity-to-learn standards

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In No child left behind, a standard that was created to help at-risk students by ensuring a level playing field by providing all students with appropriate educational resources , competent teachers and modern technology.

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Performance standards

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provide clear expectations for instruction, assessment, and student work, enabling a teacher to know “how good is good enough.” They isolate and identify the skills needed to use the knowledge and skills to problem-solve, reason, communicate, and make connections with other information. They also tell the teacher how to assess the extent to which the student knows the material or can manipulate and apply the information.

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Spirituality

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A personal and pluralistic view of life’s meaning, is broader than any particular religion. It encompasses many ideas common to all religions; activities that renew, lift up, comfort, heal, and inspire both ourselves and others. P. 341

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Standards-based education

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Education that specifies precisely what students should learn, focuses the curriculum and instruction (and perhaps much more) on meeting these standards, and provides continual testing to see if the standards are achieved.

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stealth or self-censorship

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(Also called stealth censorship. ) To avoid possible problems and parental complaints, some educators quietly remove a book from a library shelf or a course of study. Teachers practice the same sort of self-censorship when they choose not to teach a topic or not to discuss a difficult issue.

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textbook adoption states

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States, most often those in the South and West, that have a formal process for assessing, choosing, and approving textbooks for school use.

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Saber-Tooth Curriculum

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Teaches that a curriculum should preserve the past, but not be limited by it. ##################################################################################

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In Colonial America

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Reading and religion were central #############################################################################################

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Present Curriculum

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Spurred by international test scores, the emphasis is now on standards and highstakes testing. #############################################################################################

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Seven Forms of Bias

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Invisibility, stereotyping, Imbalance and Selectivity, Unreality, fragmentation and isolation, linguistic bias, cosmetic bias