The largest organization of educators, this association is concerned with the overall improvement of education and of the condition of educators. It is organized at the national, state, and local levels.
What is National Educational Association (NEA)?
100
The different ways the students learn, an example of this is working independently.
What are learning styles?
100
Values, language and behaviors that certain racial and ethnic groups have that put their children at an educational disadvantage.
What is the Deficit Theory?
100
The branch of philosophy that examines questions of right and wrong, good and bad.
What is Ethics?
100
The amount of time a school or an individual teacher schedules for a subject.
What is Allocated Time?
200
A system of employment in which teachers, having served a probationary period, acquire an expectancy of continued employment.
What is tenure?
200
Categories of these kinds of students include gifted, learning disabled, and physically disabled.
What are exceptional learners?
200
Educational programs in which students who speak little or no English attend classes taught in English as well as their native language.
What is Bilingual Education?
200
Taken from the construction field, it provides support to help a student build understanding. The teacher might use cues, encouragement or well-formulated questions to assist a student in solving a problem or mastering a concept.
What is Scaffolding?
200
The practice of teaching the same class for several years, over two or even more grades. The purpose is to build stronger teacher-student connections.
What is Looping?
300
Competence, awarded to teachers who demonstrate high levels of knowledge, commitment and professionalism through a competitive review process administrated by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
What is Board Certification?
300
An example of this is speech recognition software.
What is assistive or adaptive technology?
300
The acronym ELL stands for this.
What is English Language Learners?
300
A strategy to alter behavior in a desired direction through the use of rewards.
What is Behavior Modification?
300
An educational practice in which an individual demonstrates mastery of one task before moving on to the next.
What is Mastery learning?
400
A two year teacher education institution popular in the nineteenth century, many of which were expanded to become today's state colleges and universities.
What is Normal school?
400
The emotional area of learning that involves attitudes and values.
What is the affective domain?
400
A broad statement about a group that offers information and clues that can help a teacher plan more effectively.
What is a generalization?
400
A view of education as a way to improve the quality of life, to reduce the chances of conflict, and to create a more humane world.
What is Social Reconstructionism?
400
Subtle, unhealthy peer dynamics used to gain social power (examples are gossip, spreading rumors, teasing and bullying).
What is relational aggression?
500
A salary system that periodically evaluates teacher performance and uses these evaluations in determining salary.
What is merit pay?
500
Principle stating that no disabled child can be denied a free and appropriate public education.
What is zero reject?
500
Educational policies and practices that recognize and affirm human differences and similarities associated with gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, and class.
What is Multicultural education?
500
The philosophy that maintains that sensory experiences, such as hearing, and touching, are the ultimate sources of all human knowledge. Its followers believe that we experience the external world by sensory perception; then, through reflection, we conceptualize ideas that help us interpret the world.
What is Empiricism?
500
Structure, Question, Respond and React are the 4 steps of this cycle.