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FST 4

Foundations of Teaching- Schools and society

Question	Answer
Intrinsic rewards	Those rewards that come from within ones self and are satisfying for emotional or intellectual reasons.
Extrinsic rewards	those that come from the outside, such as job security and vacations.
Professionalism	An occupation characterized by a specialized body of knowledge with emphasis on autonomy, decision making, reflections and ethical standards for conduct.
Autonomy	The capacity to controls one's own professional life.
Curriculum	What teachers teach.
Assessment	How student understanding is measured.
Standards	Statements specifying what students should know and what skills they should have upon completing an area of study.
Technician	A person who uses specific skills to complete well-defined tasks.
Decision Making	Problem solving in ill-defined situations, based on professional knowledge.
Reflection	The process of teachers' thinking about and analyzing their work to assess its effectiveness.
Ethics	Sets of moral standards for acceptable professional behavior.
Reforms	Suggested changes in teaching and teacher preparation intended to increase the amount students learn.
Professional Portfolio	A collection of representative work materials to document developing knowledge and skills.
Accountability	The process of requiring students to demonstrate understanding of the topics they study as measured my standardized tests, as well as holding educators at all levels responsible for students performance.
High-stakes test	Assessment that states and districts use to determine whether or not students will advance from one grade to another, graduate from high school or have access to specific fields of study.
Normal Schools	2 year institutions developed in the early 1800s to prepare prospective elementary teachers.
Comprehensive high school	A secondary school that attempts to meet the needs of all students by housing them together and providing curricular options geared toward a variety of student ability levels and interests.
Latin grammar school	college prep for colonial boys, to prepare them for the ministry or law.
academy	eliminated religion, focused on practical needs, math, science, logic and navigation. Boys and girls attended.
English classical school	free. for boys not attending college, english, math, bookkeeping and surveying.
merit pay	a supplement to a teachers base salary intended to reward superior performance or work in a high need area.
character education	an approach to developing morality that suggests moral values and positive character traits, such as honesty and citizenship, should be taught and rewarded.
vouchers	checks or written documents that parents can use to purchase educational services.
Old Deluder Satan Act	Early colonial law designed to create scripture-literate citizens who would thwart Satan trickery.
common school movement	a historical attempt to make education available to all children in the united states.
Junior high school	schools that were originally designed in the early 1900's to provide a unique academic curriculum for early adolescent youth.
middle schools	schools for grades 6-8 specifically designed to help students through the rapid social, emotional changes of early adolescence.
assimilation	a process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms ad patterns of behavior.
separate but equal	a policy of segregating minorities in education, transportation, housing and other areas of public life, if they were considered equal to those of non-minorities. In education, the policy was evidenced by separate schools with different curricula,
head start	a federal compensatory education program designed to help 3-5 year olds disadvantaged children enter school ready to learn.
War on poverty	a general term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty during the 1960s.
compensatory education programs	gov't attempt to create more equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
Title I	a federal compensatory education programs that funds supplemental education services for low income students in elementary and secondary schools.
magnet schools	public schools that provide innovative or specialized programs that attempt to attract students from all parts of a district.
block grants	monies from the federal government that have little restrictions for use attached to them.
categorical grants	monies from federal government that have to be used for a specific purpose.
charter schools	alternative schools that are independently operated but publicly funded.
homeschooling	an educational option in which parents educate their children at home.
local school board	a group of elected lay people responsible for setting policies that determine how a school district operates.
principal	The individual who is ultimately responsible for the schools operation.
school distric	an administrative unit w/in a state, defined geographically, legally responsible for the public education of the children in that geo area.
site based decision making	decision making done at the school level, not higher up.
state tuition tax credit plans	A variation on school vouchers, parents are given tax credits for money they can use on private school tuition.
superintendent	The administrative head of a school district. Implements the policies set forth from the local school board.
voucher	A check or written document that parents can use to purchase educational services.
state board of education	legal governing body that has general control and supervision of the schools in the state.
state office of education	Office responsible for implementing a states education policy on a day to day basis.
assimilation
immersion programs
sexual harassment
caring
Latchkey children
single gender classes and schools
learning styles
socioecolnomic status
Culture
Middle Class
Students placed at risk
English as a second (ESL) language programs
Multicultural education
Underclass
Ethnicity
Resilient students
Upper class
Assistive Technology	A set of adaptive tools that support students with disabilities in learning activities and daily life tasks.
E-mail
simulation	programs, either software or web based form that model a system or process.
bulletin board	an electronic message center for a given topic
hypermedia	A linked form of mulitmedia that allows learners to make connections to different points in the program based on their background knowledge and learning progress
software	f
chat room	a site on the internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time.
Icon	pictures displayed on computer screens that act as symbols for some action or item
spreadsheet program	computer programs that are used to organize and manipulate numerical data.
computer literacy	f
instructional technology	f
tutorial	A software program that delivers an entire integrated instructional sequence similar to a teachers instruction on that topic.
database programs	a computer program that allows users to store, organize and manipulate information, including both text and numerical data.
internet	the complex web of interconnections among computers that allows people to communicate and share information worldwide.
URL	A series of letters and/or symbols that acts as an address for a site on the internet
Distance education	organized instructional programs in which teachers and learns, though physically separated, are connected through technology.
problem based learning	an instructional strategy that uses a problem and the data gathered in attempts to solve it as the focal point of a lesson
websites	a location on the world wide web identified with a URL

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