Approaches
Who Dunnit?
History of Education
Bloom's Taxonomy
Vocabulary
100

This approach involves drawing on aspects from the different educational philosophies to maximize student learning. 

What is the eclectic approach? 

100

This person created Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

Who is Howard Gardner?

100

Schools were expected to do this in the early 1900s when immigrants flooded the United States to better prepare immigrant children. 

What is to Americanize?

100

There are this many levels on Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid. 

EC: They are... (50 points)

What are the 6 levels?

EC: What are remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating?

100

This type of instruction involves varying instructional processes, methods, materials, settings, techniques, and activities. 

What is Differential Instruction?

200

A teacher who tends to favor the use of frequent assessments to determine the comprehension levels of students is adhering to this philosophy.

What is the essential approach?

200

According to this person, learning occurs best within the Zone of Proximal Development.

Who is Lev Vygotsky?

200

This Supreme Court case outlawed De Jure racial segregation in schools.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

This level of Bloom's Taxonomy is at the base of the pyramid. 

What is Remembering?

200

This type of assessment uses exit tickets and whiteboard activities to see where students are at in their learning. 

What is a formative assessment?

300

This approach uses activities such as simulations, experiments, games, real-world applications, and field trips to help students learn in ways that mirror the real world.

What is the progressive approach?

300

This person created a hierarchy model used for determining different levels of learning.

Who is Benjamin Bloom?
300

This case is significant because it allowed town officials to have the right to collect taxes to pay for public high schools. 

What is the Kalamazoo Case?

300

This level was added to the new 21st century version of the pyramid.

What is Creating?

300

This theory promotes the need for students to play an active role in their education to enhance their learning, understanding, and retention of information via social interaction. 

What is the Social Development Theory?

400

This philosophy tends to present information in a linear fashion.

What is essentialism?

400

This person made a change to Bloom's Taxonomy to better reflect 21st century knowledge and skills.

Who is Lorin Anderson?

400

The practice of having different curricular pathways for different students within the same school.

  

What is Educational Tracking?

400

This level of Bloom's Taxonomy represents the task of explaining the process of making a PBJ sandwich. 

What is Understanding?

400

This assessment in California and several other states that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

What is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)?

  

500

This person emphasized learning by doing, social interaction, stimulating the interests of students, and connecting learning to real life.

Who is John Dewey?

500

This person is an expert on Differentiated Instruction.

Who is Carol Ann Tomlinson?

500

This law provided federal funding to schools with a significant percentage of students from low-income families and is still associated today with labeling schools as Title 1 schools.

What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)?

500

Bloom's Taxonomy represents this in regard to students. 

What are different levels of thought and varying levels of understanding?

500

In 1990 considerable amendments were made to The Education for all Handicapped Children Act, including renaming it as this.

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?

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