Schooling Options
Does this definition describe a traditional public school or a charter school?
"school established by teachers, parents, nonprofit organizations, and others under a contract with the state or local school district. They are exempt from many state and district regulations as they design and deliver programs for improving the academic performance of students."
What is a Charter School?
"A social theory and educational philosophy that limits truth and knowledge to what is observable and measurable."
What is Positivism?
The author of "Framework for Teaching"
Who is Charlotte Danielson?
Author of "But That's Just Good Teaching!"
Who is Gloria Ladson-Billings?
Standardized testing was an key component in determining a student's success in this federal education law.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
a public school offering special instruction and programs not available elsewhere, such as teaching performing arts, world languages, and leadership.
What is a magnet school?
"A psychological theory and educational philosophy that asserts that behaviors represent the essence of a person and that all behaviors can be explained as responses to stimuli."
What is Behaviorism?
The Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching is designed to provide every teacher valuable feedback to guide their planning for effective instruction. How many domains is it comprised of?
In this article, they highlight an example in which teachers encourage students to bring in music pieces from this genre to analyze rhyme scheme and pacing.
What is rap?
Many professional associations, curriculum groups, and statewide education committees began developing standards related to student learning for the major subject areas. The first set of standards to receive widespread attention was published by the National Council for the Teaching of Mathematics (NCTM). What year were these standards published?
What is 1989?
"Charter schools are established through a contract with either a state agency or a local school board. The contract, or charter, lays out how the school will operate in exchange for receiving ______ "
What is public funding?
"An educational philosophy that holds that there is a core of long-lasting ideas that an educated person must understand"
What is Perranialism?
The four domains in the framework for teaching comprise of
1. Planning and Preperation
2. The Classroom Environment
3. Instruction
4. ________
What is Professional Responsibility?
definition of pedagogy
What is the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept?
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was the main law for K–12 general education in the United States from 2002–2015, signed into law by George W. Bush. Barack Obama signed THIS act into law in its replacement.
What is Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
The decade in which the first charter school opened.
What is the 1990's? (1991 in Minnesota)
"An educational philosophy that holds that there is a common core of information and skills that an educated person must have; schools should be organized to transmit this core of essential material."
What is Essentialism?
In the fourth domain, there are six components that make up "professional responsibilities". Name one component.
What is...
Reflecting on Teaching, Maintaining Accurate Records, Communicating with Families, Contributing to the School and District, Growing and Developing Professionally, Showing Professionalism ?
There are three tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy as described in the article. Name one.
what is..
academic achievement, cultural competence, and sociopolitical consciousness.
Common Core Standards set high expectations. They did a lot of research into a specific skill that has students "present oral and written explanations of understanding, reasoning, and questioning of the explanations of others." What is this skill called?
What is argumentation?
"The annual progress report of how students in a school performed on the state’s achievement tests as required by No Child Left Behind and its successor, Every Student Succeeds Act. Schools whose students are not performing at grade level are labeled by the state as “low performing.”"
What is the adequate yearly progress (AYP)?
"an educational theory that emphasizes that ideas should be tested by experimentation and that learning is rooted in questions developed by learners"
What is Progressivism?
This service conducted research, led by Charlotte Danielson, which produced the development of Praxis III: Classroom Performance Assessments for Licensing Beginning Teachers.
What is the Educational Testing Service? (ETS)
In the article, they mention a method of teaching in which Mrs. Winston brought in a parent that was known in her community for good baking to illustrate hands-on learning and being passionate about what we do in the classroom. What dessert did they bake in class?
What is pie?
Common Core Standards are vague in the sense of understanding what they mean to education. In this context what does a "standard based education" mean?
What is the use of explicit outcomes of what students should know and be able to do, which are outlined in standards, to develop instruction and assessments.