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What is curriculum?
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-All organized and intended experiences of the student for which the school accepts responsibility.
-Not just the intellectual content of the subjects taught, but also the methods used to teach them, the interactions that occur among people, and the school-sponsored activities that contribute to the "life experiences". |
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What are statements of the subject-specific knowledge and skills that schools are expected to teach and that students are expected to learn?
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Content standards
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What is the whole language approach?
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The basic debate is whether reading instruction should emphasize the integration of language arts, skills, and knowledge.
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What is an approach to reading that teaches the reader to "decode" words by sounding out letters and combinations of letters?
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Phonics
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What is social studies?
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The study of people and their ideas, actions, and relationships.
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What advocates this new focus call fro courses that will acquaint a racially and culturally diverse student population with the heritage common to the American democratic tradition?
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Civic learning or civic education
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What are the arts?
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Visual arts, music, dance, and theater.
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What is the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)?
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Assessment conducted periodically in reading, math, science, writing, history, geography, and other fields.
The primary source on education achievement in the US and they have become known as "the nation's report card". |
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What is the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?
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-Tested the math and science knowledge of students at 3 grade levels (4th, 8th, & 12th).
-Two main messages of TIMSS are that US students don't start out behind, the fall behind, and by the time US students finish high school, they are not achieving a the international standards demanded by a global labor market. |
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What is the Full Option Science System (FOSS)?
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ONline interactive activities both at school and at home for for K-8 science.
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What is a curriculum that cuts across subject-matter lines to focus on comprehensive life problems or broad-based areas of study that bring together the various segments of the curriculum in meaningful association?
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Interdisciplinary curriculum or integrated curriculum.
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What is cooperative learning in classrooms?
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Many different forms but all involve students working in small groups or teams to help one another learn academic material. Cooperative learning strategies are organized, highly structure methods that usually involve formal presentation of info, student practice and coaching in learning teams, individual assessment of mastery, and public recognition.
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What is the intent to help students evaluate the worth of ideas, opinions, or evidence before making a decision of judgment?
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Critical thinking.
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What is problem solving?
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Referes to the process of either presenting students with a problem or helping them identify a problem and then observing and helping them become aware of the conditions, procedures, or steps needed to solve it.
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What is the practice that responds to student variance rather than adopting a standardized approach to teaching that assumes all learners in a class are essentially alike?
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Differentiated instruction.
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What is 4MAT?
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Teachers plan some lessons for each of 4 learning preferences over the course of several days on a given topic. Each learner can approach the topic through his or her preferred modes of learning.
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What is the schedule in which students take fewer classes each school day but spend more time in each class?
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Block scheduling. In theory, it carves out more time for instruction by reducing the amount of time students spend going from class to class and the time teachers spend taking roll and settling down classes.
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What is tracking?
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The curriculum that a student receives is influenced by many factors, including aspirations for further schooling, academic ability, motivation, and vocational interests. Based on these and other factors, students are often placed into academic program tracks that determine which courses they take.
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What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
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If a teacher expects a student or group to behave in a certain way, the teacher's attitude may serve as this and the student may behave in the predicted manner in response to the teacher's attitude and not as a result of the other factors on which the teacher's expectations are based.
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What is a range of tasks that a child cannot yet do alone but can accomplish when assisted by a more skilled partner?
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Zone of proximal development. In other words, the child is on the verge of being able to solve a problem but just needs some structure, clues, help with remembering certain steps or procedures, or encouragement to try.
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What allows students to complete tasks they can't complete independently?
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Scaffolding
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What is withitness?
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Teachers who are "with it" are those who communicate to pupils and so, by their behavior, appear that they know what is going on.
Pick up on the first sign of misbehavior, deal with the proper pupil, ignore a minor misbehavior to stop a major infraction, and so forth. |
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What is smoothness?
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The absence of behaviors initiated by teacher that interfere with the flow of academic events.
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Examples of when a teacher does not have smoothness.
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When a teacher bursts in on children's activities with an order, statement, or question; when a teacher starts or is engaged in some activity and then leaves it hanging, only to resume it after and interval; and when a teacher terminates one activity, starts another, and then initiates a return to the terminated activity.
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What are the concerns of the absence of teacher behaviors that slow down the pace of the lesson and what are the 2 types?
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Momentum.
2 Types= Overdwelling and fragmentation |
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What is fragmentation?
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When a teacher deals with individual pupils one at a time rather than with the group or unnecessarily breaks a task into smaller parts when the task could have been accomplished in a single step.
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What are 3 concepts Kounin used to describe teacher classroom management behavior?
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Withitness
Smoothness Momentum |
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What is the SCANS report?
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In May of 1990, a committee was formed to conduct a comprehensive study on how well schools prepare young people for the work force.
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Findings for the SCANS report.
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The SCANS Report outlined and examined the demands of the nation's workplace and concluded that "...more than half our young people leave school without the knowledge or foundation required to find and hold a good job." Obviously, the SCANS Report caused quite a stir in education, as school boards, administrators, and teachers were shown that they simply are not teaching our nation's students what they need to know in order to be prepared for the work force of today— the work force of the 21st century.
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What is STAD?
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STAD is one of three strategies under the umbrella of Student Learning Teams developed at Johns Hopkins University based on years of research on cooperative learning. In STAD, students study with 4-5 team members following a teacher presentation. Students take quizzes individually to demonstrate how much they have learned. The individual quiz scores are summed to form a team score, and teams are rewarded for their performance.
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