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A comparison of two unlike things for similarities
What is an analogy?
To express thoughts into words
What is articulate?
A person who has met the state requirements for teacher preparation
Who is a certified teacher?
An experienced teacher who supervises and mentors a student teacher
Who is a cooperating teacher (mentor)?
What is a grant?
Following a person on the job for a few hours, a day, or even longer to experience what the person's career typically involves to gain valuable insight into the person's daily tasks, activities, and interactions with others.
What is job shadowing?
An organized collection of materials and information that shows how personal knowledge, skills, and attitudes have developed over time.
What is a personal portfolio?
A personal statement about your thoughts, views, and values as they relate to teaching.
What is philosophy of teaching?
Arrangements between states that allow teachers certified to teach in one state to teach in another state that is part of this agreement.
A type of volunteer effort that combines classroom learning with meaningful hands-on experience to meet community needs.
What is service-learning?
A clear concise statement of what a person wants to become in life
What is a career goal?
University or college courses that prepare students to become teachers.
What are teacher education programs?
A formal document, issued by a state, verifying that a teacher is qualified to teach at specific grade levels, or particular subject areas.
What is a teacher license?
Statements of what students are expected to know and be able to do at certain points in their education. They are set by national organizations, states, and many school districts. Sometimes called instructional goals.
What is educational standards?
A public school that operates with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.
What is a charter school?
Movement in the United States led primarily by African-Americans to gain equal rights regardless of race.
What is the Civil rights movement?
Teaching methods that require students to demonstrate their abilities in subject areas.
What is competency-based education?
The interconnectedness of nations around the world through finance, international companies, and trade.
What is global economy?
Tests that measure students' performance compared to that of thousands of other students.
What is standardized tests?
Rigorous sequences of career and technical and academic courses to prepare for a successful transition from high school to postsecondary education/credentialing and employment.
What is a program of study?
A federal government program designed to help preschool children from low-income families develop the skills they need for success in kindergarten and beyond.
What is the Project Head Start program?
The great increase in births after the end of World War II.
What is the baby boom?
Education in two languages.
What is bilingual education?
Movement toward focusing teaching on reading, writing, and math.
What is back-to-basics movement?
Explanations based on research about why people act and behave they way they do and how they change over time.
What is developmental theories?