A student who learns best through charts, textbooks, outlines, and graphs.
What is a visual learner?
100
Known for his creation of a theory of cognitive development.
What is Jean Piaget?
100
A way to teach that focuses on authentic or real-life problems that often go beyond traditional subject areas.
What is problem-based learning (PBL)?
100
Learnings that are not always intended but emerge as students are shaped by the school culture.
What is hidden curriculum?
100
A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors, a way of life shared by members of a society.
What is culture?
200
A student who learns best through movement and tactile activities.
What is a kinesthetic learner?
200
Known for her work in identifying the education potential of young children and crafting an environment in which the young could learn.
Who is Maria Montessori?
200
A teaching model that emphasizes the importance of a structured lesson in which presentation of new information is followed by student practice and teacher feedback.
What is direct teaching?
200
This law was described as the most significant change in federal regulation of public schools in three decades.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
200
The belief that some children do poorly because their teachers do not expect much of kids from certain racial and ethnic groups.
What is the expectation theory?
300
A student who learns best through lecture, recitation, and group discussions.
What is an auditory learner?
300
Known for his work in developing progressive education, for incorporating democratic practices in the educational process.
Who is John Dewey?
300
Four ways to respond to student answers.
What are praise, acceptance, remediation, and criticism?
300
An education that specifies precisely what students should learn, focuses the curriculum and instruction on meeting these specifications.
What is standards-based education?
300
Recognizes that some groups have maintained their culture and their language, and that these group differences should be understood, appreciated, and even honored.
What is cultural pluralism?
400
Logical-mathematical, Linguistic, Bodily-kinesthetic, Musical, Spatial, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalist.
What are Multiple Intelligences?
400
Known for his work in identifying the crippling effects of racism on all American children and in formulating community action to overcome the educational, psychological, and economic impacts of racism.
Who is Kenneth Clark?
400
The four roles that teachers and students share in the pedagogical cycle.
What are structure, question, respond, and react?
400
An evaluation that captures actual student performance, encourages students to reflect on their own work, and is integrated into the student's whole learning process.
What is authentic assessment?
400
When a student is aware of a stereotype, he or she is more likely to behave like the stereotype than if it did not exist.
What is a stereotype threat?
500
This Harvard professor came up with a theory in response to the contradictions raised by IQ scores in the early 20th century.
Who is Howard Gardner?
500
A professor who's research interests include high school reform, teacher leadership, and school-university partnerships.
Who is Ginny Birky?
500
This is the most widely used system of determining the intellectual level of questions.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
500
This book was censored from schools for containing sexually explicit definitions.
What is Webster's Dictionary?
500
He developed a mulicultural curriculum that focused on integrating and broadening curriculum to make it more inclusive and action oriented.