Chapter 1 & 2
Protection from arbitrary dismissal after working for a set amount of time.
What is tenure?
In diverse classrooms, teachers can use generalizations about students from different cultural groups but should avoid these statements. EX: Asian American students are math geniuses.
What is a stereotype?
Paula is an elementary school teacher who often feels that the last thing in the world she gets to do is teach her students. She feels as though much of her day is spent on determining who gets to speak, when to line up for lunch, how the class will work when broken into groups, and so on. In this example, Paula occupies the role of a(n) _____.
What is gatekeeper?
By the early part of the twentieth century, women constituted upward of _____ percent of teachers.
What is 90?
In a(n) _____ classroom, students spend considerable time and energy mastering the three “Rs,” reading, ’riting, and ’rithmetic.
What is perennialist ?
Horace Mann helped establish the first...
What is state-supported normal school?
When a teacher allocates a special week in a month to talk about important female inventors, the teacher is taking the _____ approach to multicultural curriculum.
What is the additive approach?
When asked to identify the one best thing about their high school, _____ usually rank at the top of the list of students.
What is friends or social activities?
In the context of the development of American schools, _____ were open to all social classes and provided both pre-college and career education.
What are high schools?
_____ strives to teach students the accumulated knowledge of human civilization through core courses in the traditional academic disciplines.
What is essentialism ?
One's intelligence is likened to a muscle that can grow and develop with effort, learning, and persistence best describes the concept of ...
What is the growth mindset?
In the context of English Acquisition Programs which approach often stresses on cultural assimilation?
What is the transitional approach?
Which of the following statements regarding the composition of the modern family in the United States is true?
A) American families most often have at least three children or more.
B) More than 50 percent of new mothers have at least some college education.
C) More than 80 percent children are born to mothers who are at least 35 years old.
D) Only a few American families are remarried or recoupled.
What is B- more than 50 percent of new mothers have at least some college education?
The movement with which John Dewey was closely associated with is known as _____.
What is progressivism ?
_____ is the idea that society is an ingenious “sorting” system, one in which the more talented rise to the top, while those less deserving find themselves at the bottom of the social and economic pecking order.
What is Social Darwinism ?
An atmosphere in which students with disabilities are not inappropriately segregated is called...
What is least-restrictive environement?
Multicultural educators that follow the _____ approach primarily advocate creating close links between school and home so that minority children can succeed academically.
What is “teaching the culturally different”?
In the context of the social challenges that students face in school, which of the following statements is true about poor children entering school?
They typically receive less adult attention.
They are less likely to live in single-parent families.
What is "they typically receive less adult attention"?
In the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court developed the doctrine of _____.
What is separate but equal ?
According to _____, the human soul has three parts: intellect, spirit, and appetite.
What is Plato?
One of the fundamental provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which ensures that students with disabilities should be assessed fairly by the use of tests that are free from cultural bias and are in the students’ native language, is the provision of:
What is nondiscriminatory education?
According to James Banks, multicultural education often begins with the _____, in which the study of ethnic heroes (for example, Sacagawea, Rosa Parks, or Booker T. Washington) is included in the curriculum.
What is the contributions approach?
In 1987, Congress passed the _____, which requires homeless students to have the same access to school as everyone else.
What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
This act provides medical, social, nutritional, and educational services for low-income children from 3 to 6 years of age.
What is Project Head Start?
The use of a system of positive reinforcement to promote desired learning is based on _____.
What is behaviorism ?