Why is student development important for teachers?
100
The combination of family income, parents' occupation and educational level.
What is SES, socioeconomic status?
100
Keeping the curriculum the same but allows students to move through it more quickly.
What is acceleration?
200
The results.
What is equality?
200
As students grow older they are exposed to an enhancement of difficult ideas who may not all achieve. Thus, requiring students to repeat a grade if they don’t meet certain criteria.
What is grade retention?
200
A child who returns home to an empty house and left alone until parents return.
Who is a Latchkey child?
200
Doing well in school is considered “being white” and rejecting one’s own culture.
What are resistance cultures?
300
Language programs that place the greatest emphasis on using and sustaining the first language.
What are bilingual maintenance language programs?
300
Schools responding to differences in student performances.
What are ability grouping and tracking?
300
repetitious abuse of power among people (students, coworkers, friends, etc.)
What is bullying?
300
The “carrot method” that helped fund education for ELLs through the federal government. This law expired in 2002 and was not renewed, but replaced by NCLB.
What is Bilingual Education Act (BEA)?
400
Language programs that emphasize a rapid transition to English.
What are immersion programs?
400
Individualized education program; an individually prescribed instructional plan.
What is an IEP?
400
Students spend more time watching TV and eating unhealthy snacks; legislatures work to create stricter guidelines for schools
What is obesity?
400
The different cultures encountered in classrooms and how these cultural differences influence learning.
What is cultural diversity?
500
Language programs that maintain the first language until students acquire sufficient English to succeed in English-only classrooms.
What are transition programs?
500
The question is no longer “How smart is this student?” The question now is “How is this student smart?”
Hint: It's a person.
Who is Howard Gardner?
500
Schools that serve as family resource centers to provide a range of social and health services.
What is a full-service school?
500
James Banks' approach to multicultural education that studies curriculum themes from various ethnic perspectives.