Teacher Effectiveness
Social Problems
Special Education
21st Century Thinking/Schooling
Curriculum
100
Effective teachers are those who can adapt curriculum and instruction to the needs of their learners. Ultimately, they ____________ curriculum and instruction.
What is differentiate.
100
__________________________ is a term used to describe the extremes of the different financial/living levels in our society today.
What is Socioeconomic Status (SES)
100
This is the written statement of a child's educational program designed to meet his/her individual needs.
What is Individualized Education Program
100
YouTuber "Dan" Brown, alias Pogobat, shocked many when he claimed that his ___________________ was interfering with his ___________________.
What is schooling/education
100
The current American standards that have been adopted by more than 40 states.
What is the Common Core State Standards
200
Author Lisa Delpit once noted that our poor inner city students needed teachers who could balance being nurturing with challenging. She called these teachers what?
What is warm demanders
200
This is defined as being in poverty for two or more generations.
What is generational poverty
200
________________ is an educational right of children with disabilities in the United States that is guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
What is Free Appropriate Public Education
200
Former third grade teacher and currently the head of the Learning and Performance Systems department in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University, Ali Carr Chellman claims that boys have been disengaged in schools for three reasons.
What is zero tolerance, fewer male teachers, kindergarten is the new second grade
200
Curriculum that covers a great many subjects but not for deeper understanding is said to be...
What is "a mile wide and an inch deep".
300
In order to plan well, teachers must understand the backgrounds of there students. A class that is rich with students from different races, religions, and ethnicity is said to be ____________________.
What is diverse.
300
The driving forces in decision making for the poor are ________________ (3),
What is survival, entertainment and relationships
300
_______________ in education describes an approach wherein students with special educational needs spend most or all of their time with non-disabled students.
What is inclusion
300
In order to think in the 21st century, we must first unpack our invisible knapsack and believe that ____________ ________________ is real.
What is white privilege
300
Often used at the secondary level, this type of teaching sends the lecture home by video and what used to be considered homework to the classroom.
What is the flipped classroom
400
Dr. Haim Ginott once said that “I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child _____________ and _______________.”
What is humanized and de-humanized.
400
When bullying problems persist, some schools implement _______________ __________________ policies.
What is zero tolerance
400
_______________ refers to the setting where a child with a disability can receive an appropriate education designed to meet his or her educational needs, alongside peers without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is Least Restrictive Environment
400
Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now -- and it's because we're clinging to a business model that clearly doesn't work. Education advocate __________ ___________ dares the system to look at the data, think about the customers and make systematic shifts in order to help greater numbers of kids excel. He tries not to be the angry black man but says, "I'm excited but I am angry."
What is Geoffrey Canada
400
One of the most well known Reading Wars of the last couple of decades was known as______________ ________________ VS. ________________. Ultimately, both sides won out in some school districts.
What is Whole Language VS. Phonics
500
Known as an English author and speaker on education who once said that “My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
What is Sir Ken Robinson
500
In 1987, Congress passed this act which is intended to provide protection for the educational needs for homeless youth and children.
What is McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
500
_____________ defines Special Education as “specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability.” Often met with an ambiguous definition, the umbrella term of Special Education broadly identifies the academic, physical, cognitive and social-emotional instruction offered to children who are faced with one or more disabilities
What is Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
500
In ____________, schools have raised their test scores and graduation rates by providing resources such as full-time student success teachers, who help English-language learners (ELLs) and other students in need
What is Ontario, Canada
500
This Act of 2001 called for states to hold their schools accountable by administering high stakes tests and requiring teachers to be highly qualified in their subject areas.
What is No Child Left Behind
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