People/The Classroom
Teachers
Students
Laws
Potpourri
100
This person is responsible for creating the method of using state taxes to help fund education.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
This is the most student-centered teaching method.
What is a Simulation? (Teacher-centered include lectures, Discussions and Demonstrations)
100
If a child can use the bathroom without help, correctly hold a crayon or marker and tell a simple story is ready for this.
What is Kindergarten?
100
This is the most common reason for the discrepancy in funding from district to district.
What is property values? (which causes lower property taxes, which is the primary source of school funding on the local/district level.)
100
This type of study is important because it involves higher-order thinking skills.
What is a case study?
200
This individual's idea to create kindergarten came from the belief that children learn best through play.
Who is Friedrich Froebel?
200
Teachers providing routines and whole-class experiences in an example of teachers building this.
What is class identity?
200
"Inactivity wastes windows of opportunity" is true about the brain development of this age group.
What are adolescents?
200
This Act made it illegal to discriminate based on gender.
What is the Equal Opportunities in Education Act?
200
This type of lab focuses on an end product.
What is a productive lab?
300
This US President believed that the role of the federal government was to establish guidelines for achieving excellence in education.
Who is President Bill Clinton?
300
Teachers need to carefully monitor this particular activity by students.
What is using online resources for research activities?
300
Young Children (under age 10) behave primarily for this reason.
What is to gain adult approval?
300
These group of people felt that curriculum was too standardized and wanted to change the way education in America was implemented.
Who are the Progressives?
300
These two types of labs require careful planning.
What are experimental and productive labs?
400
Piaget believed children learn through continuous exposure to these.
What are experimentation, discovery and first-hand experiences?
400
These can help teachers stay updated in their fields and sometimes offer students membership.
What are professional organizations?
400
The MAIN purpose for others of the table of contents of a student portfolio is this.
What is to update its contents?
400
Educational standards are also called these.
What are instructional goals?
400
These can offer a virtual representation of situations in life.
What are computer games and simulations?
500
These are types of assistive technology in the classroom.
What are modified keyboards and joysticks, text to speech software and handheld magnifiers?
500
This is the MAIN reason future teachers should study developmental theories.
What is because they will help them understand what students are doing and why?
500
The statement "you can do better work" is NOT a good example of this.
What is feedback that will improve student work?
500
This Act of 2002 allows copyrighted work to be displayed on bulletin boards.
What is the TEACH Act of 2002?
500
This caused the computer revolution - the increase of use by everyday people.
What is the decline in cost of computers?
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