Introduc To Teaching Word Scramble
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Intrinsic Rewards | Rewards that come from within oneself and are personally satisfying for emotional and intellectual reasons |
Extrinsic Rewards | Rewards that come form outside oneself such as job security and vacations |
Professionalism | An occupation characterized by a specialized body of knowledge with emphasis on autonomy, decision making, reflection, and ethical standards of conduct |
Autonomy | The capacity to control 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 teacher's thinking about and analyzing their work for effectiveness. |
Ethics | Set of moral standards for acceptable professional behavior |
Socioeconomic Status | The amount of money students' parents make, their parents' level of education, and the kind of jobs their parents have. |
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 |
Digital porfolio | A collection of materials contained in an electric file that makes the information accessible to potential viewers |
Accountability | The process of requiring students ti demonstrate understanding of the topics they study as measured by standardizing tests, as well as holding educators at all levels responsible for students' performance |
High-stakes test | Assessments that states and districts use to determine whether or not students will graduate from one grade to another, graduate form high school, or have access to specific fields of study |
Merit Pay | Performance related pay |
Old Deluder Satan Act | Early colonial law designed to create scripture-literate citizens who thwart Satan's trickery |
Vouchers | Checks or written documents that parents can use to purchase educational services |
Character education | An approach to developing morality that suggests moral values and positive character traits, such as honesty and citizenship, should be emphasized, taught, and rewarded |
Common school movement | A historical attempt to make education available to all children in the United States |
Normal Schools | Two-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 (e.g. vocational or college-preparatory programs) geared toward a variety of student ability levels and interests |
Latin grammar school | A college-preparatory school designed to help boys prepare for the ministry, or later, for a career in law |
Academy | A secondary school that focused on the practical needs of colonial America needs of colonial America as a growing nation |
English classical school | A free secondary school designed to meet the needs of boys not planning to attend college |
Junior high school | Schools that were originally designed in the early 1900s intended to provide unique academic curriculum for early adolescent youth |
Middle school | Schools, typically for grades 6-8, specifically designed to help students through the rapid social, emotional, and intellectual changes characteristic of early adolescence |
Assimilation | A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominate social norms and patterns of behavior. |
Separate but equal | A policy separating minorities in areas of public life if opportunities and facilities were considered equal to those of minorities. In education, the policy was evidenced by separate schools with different curricula, teaching methods, and resources |
War on poverty | A general term for federal programs designed to eradicate poverty in the 1960s |
Compensatory education programs | Government attempts to create more equal education programs for disadvantaged youth. |
Head Start | A federal compensatory education program designed to help 3- to 5- year old disadvantaged children enter school ready to learn |
Title 1 | A federal compensatory program that funds supplemental educational services for low-income students in elementary and secondary schools |
Magnet School | Public schools that provide innovative or specialized programs that attempt to attract students from all parts of a district |
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