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schools and society
chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| autonomy | The capacity to controls ones own professional life. |
| accountability | The process of requiring students to demonstrate understanding of the topics they study as measured by standard tests. |
| extrinsic rewards | Rewards that come from outside ones self (such as job). |
| professionalism | An occupation characterized by a specialized body of knowledge with emphasis on autonomy, decision making and ethical standards for conduct. |
| assessment | How student understanding is measured. |
| high-stakes test | assessments 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. |
| reflection | The process of teachers' thinking about and analyzing to assess its effectiveness. |
| intrinsic rewards | Rewards that come from inside ones self and are personally satisfying for emotional and intellectual reasons. |
| reforms | suggested changes in teaching and teacher preparation intended to increase the amount students learn. |
| curriculum | what teachers teach. |
| Merit Pay | performance based pay |
| ethics | sets of moral standards acceptable for professional behavior |
| technician | a person who uses specific skills to complete well defined tasks |
| decision-making | problem solving in ill-defined situations, based on professional knowledge |
| standards | statements specifying what students should know and what skills they should have upon completing an area of study |
| professional portfolio | collection of materials representative to ones work |
| portfolio | The materials collected in such a case, especially when representative of a person's work |
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