A strategy used within groups of learners and aims to improve their learning experience and understanding of a learning subject.
Cooperative Learning
An experimental workshop for learning; science lab, art school, a kitchen, woodworking shop etc.
Laboratory School
A decision not to send a child to the neighborhood school or any school, but to educate the child at home.
Homeschooling
In the classroom setting, students work on activities in groups and often receive rewards or recognition based on overall group performance.
Cooperative Learning
Strives to teach students the accumulated knowledge through core courses in the traditional academic disciplines.
Essentialism
Quickly forming groups for short periods to complete a small task at hand.
Informal Cooperative Learning
Large sums of money given directly to the states with few strings attached.
Block Grants
Job protection that guarantees or enhances your continued employment.
Tenure
Students especially at the secondary level is due to interaction with fellow students in non-graded areas; sports, clubs, yearbook, etc
Extra Curriculum
Organizes schools around the concerns, curiosity, and real-world experiences of students.
Progressivism
Long-terms groups with members giving eachother support, encouragement and assistance.
Group-Based Cooperative Learning
Teacher builds knowledge by gauging a student's prior knowledge, then carefully penetrating questions that challenges and extend the students insight.
Scaffolding
The 14th Amendment grants students the right to tell their side of a situation if they have been accused.
Due Process
The teachers responsibility to challenge and engage students during allocated time resulting in increased student achievement.
Academic Learning Time
Organizes schools around books, ideas, ad concepts ; absorbs their push for "cultural literacy".
Perennialism
Formal Cooperative Learning
Funds directed at specific categories and targeted educational needs.
Categorical Grant
A school that provides dentists, nutritionists, drivers to help with transportation and counselors helping both the parents and the children create productive lives.
Full-Service Schools
Learning that is not always intended but emerges as students are shaped by the school culture, including the attitudes and behavior of teachers.
Implicit or Hidden Curriculum
This student-centered philosophy places the highest priority on students directing their own learning.
Existentialism
Around how many students necessary should there be to form a group from minimum to the max?
2 -5 Members
Is derived from the belief that free will is an illusion and that human beings are shaped entirely by their environment.
Behaviorism
Numerous businesses have seizing opportunities for profit-making enterprises in school reform.
Privatization
Keeping classroom discussion moving at a brisk pace, sometimes teachers push forward too rapidly.
Wait Time
A philosophy that emphasizes the addressing of social questions and quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy.
Social Reconstructivism