Chapter Two Vocabulary
Career-long, self improvement.
What is "growth"?
The single largest category of employees in a school.
Who are "Classroom Teachers"?
Learners
Who students and teachers?
Moral code or standard embraced by individuals or group
What are "Ethics"?
Your personal experiences and attitudes you develop from your former teachers, classmates and family members.
What is "pretraining"?
This preparation includes core studies, teaching specialization and professional education for any student teacher.
What is "Formal" or "Formal preparation"?
This school position often requires a master's degree and administrative certification.
Who is a "principal" or "school administrator"?
The leader of the district.
Who is the superintendent?
This is the primary ethical concern for any teacher.
What is "the student" or "the best interest of the student"?
These important classes include requirements in math, science and liberal arts.
What are "core" or "core classes"?
This includes pretraining, formal preparation, induction-years and continuing growth.
What is "Professional Development"?
This school position requires a listener and facilitator who spends a great deal of time with individual students.
Who is a "school counselor"?
They make political decisions about education.
Who are the politicians?
Teachers influence them through academic learning.
Who are "students"?
Two general organizations for teachers.
What are the "NEA (National Education Association)" and the "AFT (American Federation of Teachers)"?
These former teachers serve as mentors for people preparing for careers as classroom teachers.
Who are "Teacher Educators"?
The federal agency with the most influence on educational policy.
What is the U.S Department of Education?
Teachers influence them through moral and ethical actions.
Who are "students"?
This is typically interchanged with the term "staff-development" and is a school district organized activity for teachers.
What is "In-service"?
Teachers who are responsible for leading all teachers in a building, at grade level or in a specialization.
Who are "Department" or "Grade-level Chairs"?
Betsy Devos
Who is the Secretary of the Department of Education?
Some of the most difficult ethical decisions for teachers involve school administrators and or other __________.
Who are "teachers"?