Foundations of Education
Complexity of Teaching
Diversity within the Student Population
Chapter One Vocabulary
Multiple Intelligences
100

This foundation of education helps establish a "good" society.

What is "Social and Philosophical"?

100

The idea that many things happen at once in a classroom.

What is "Simultaneity"?

100
Student population tends to dwarf the teacher population in the percentage of this.
What are Minorities?
100
The idea that individuals must create knowledge and cannot just be given knowledge.
What is "constructivism"?
100
The idea that intelligence consists of a number of separate categories.
What is "Multiple Intelligence"?
200

This foundation of education is centered on the question "What is good teaching".

What is the "Instructional" foundation.

200

The reality that many situations require a teacher to respond at once.

What is "Immediacy"?

200
This factor in diversity is very prevalent in Kotzebue as there are many Asian-Americans, White-Americans, African-Americans and Native-Americans all living and working together.
What is "race"?
200
Clear measurable descriptions of what a student should learn.
What are "Standards"?
200
People with strength in this area are especially adept at understanding and using languages.
What is "Linguistic" intelligence?
300

This foundation of education deals with the ethical rights and responsibilities of a teacher.

What is "Legal"?

300

The reality that teachers are responsible for a broad array of duties.

What is "Multidimensionality"?

300
This factor within diversity is suggested in the fact that some students live in Buckland while others live in Kotzebue.
What is "where you live"?
300
The idea that teaching is a profession that allows recipients and their parents the ability to monitor every action within the classroom.
What is "Publicness"?
300
People with strengths in this area are more adept at communicating and creating meaning with sound.
What is "Musical" intelligence?
400

This foundation of education is used to create a framework for an instructional program.

What is "Curriculum"?

400

This complexity of teaching is developed over time as a teacher learns to interact with his or her students.

What is "History" complexity?

400
These five factors can play a role in diversity.
What are "race", "wealth", "culture", "occupation", "heritage", "place of origin", "gender", "education", "religion", "family history", 'skin color".
400
The reality that students come from different cultures, different races and different places of origin.
What is "Diversity"?
400
People with strength in this area are good at responding to the feelings of others.
What is "Interpersonal" intelligence?
500

The people who make the rules like state legislators and school board members primarily work with this foundation of education.

What is "Political"?

500

This complexity of teaching occurs when things do not go as planned such as unexpected visitors, fire drills, or student illness in the classroom.

What is "unpredictability"?

500
Many schools have attempted to respond to increased diversity with these.
What are "bilingual education programs" or "multicultural education".
500
The concept that down plays the Intelligence Quotient and suggests that a person may have different levels of ability in individual categories.
What is "Multiple Intelligence"?
500
As more is learned about multiple intelligences, teachers have learned to avoid using this to label learners.
What is "IQ" or "Intelligence Quotient"?
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