Professional Development
School Choice
Purpose of Schooling
Reform Strategies
Standards, Curriculum and Assessments
100
Teams of individuals comprised of teachers, administrators, and parents observe classrooms together to collect descriptions/evidence on a “problem of practice”. It is intended to build a common, collective understanding of instruction.
What is instructional rounds?
100
This type of publicly funded school runs on an agreement in which they are given autonomy, not ruled by a local school board, and in trade have accountability with a time limit in which their school is reevaluated to see if it is succeeding and can continue to operate
What is charter school?
100
This purpose of schooling is to gain academic content knowledge, getting to the next academic level in an education system. The essential purpose of schooling here is to develop the powers of intelligence: thinking, observing, imagining, appreciating, questioning, and judging
What is academic attainment purpose?
100
This legislation passed under the Bush administration in 2001 supports standards based education reform, it requires states to develop assessments to test students in basic skills in order to be eligible for Title I funds.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB) ?
100
What students are supposed to know and be able to do, they do not explicitly tell teachers how to teach
What is content standards?
200
This method of school based professional development is centered around co-development and refinement of research lessons, 5 to 7 teachers are on a team. They identify a problem, plan, teach, evaluate and revise a lesson. They repeat the process until lessons are eventually published to a wider audience.
What is Japanese Lesson Study?
200
A certificate issued by the government which parents can apply toward tuition at a private school rather than enrolling their child in their assigned public school
What is a school voucher?
200
The purpose of schooling here is seen as attaining skills required to succeed in the economy, to be in the middle class students need more skills beyond a high school diploma level and we should help them prepare for that
What is economic purpose?
200
This is a competition amongst states initiated by the Obama administration to compete for federal funds in education by submitting applications showing education reforms in their states, working towards educational improvement.
What is Race to the Top?
200
The following are the characteristics of this fundamental tool within schools: is focused on a certain content/subject matter has a program of planned activities has intended learning outcomes describes discrete tasks and concepts acts as a support for teachers
What is curriculum?
300
This professional development method is compromised of four components: inquiry, pre-conference, lab site observation of practice, and debrief. Teams of teachers are on a cycle for eight weeks then off cycle for eight weeks, the pattern continues facilitated by a content area coach or teacher leader
What is Collaborative Learning and Coaching?
300
The following entities all share a common relationship to charter schools: Local School Boards State Departments of Education Universities Not-for-profit foundations State Charter Boards
What is charter school authorizers?
300
The purpose of education is to build the future of students and to help students become a better person and make their dreams and goals come true
What is individual or personal growth purpose?
300
This model to turnaround a low performing school entails closing the school and enrolling the students who attended the school in other, higher-performing schools in the LEA.
What is the close/consolidate model?
300
_____ express the expectations of what should be taught, _____ determine the level at which the standard is learned
What are standards and assessments?
400
This method involves presenting teachers coming together with a sample of their student's work to learn from their fellow teachers how this piece effectively captures the lesson, what can be learned from it, and how to improve teaching to improve students' work.
What is Looking at Student Work?
400
A key aspect of charter schools is noted as introducing more innovations and reforms, serving as market competition, and providing more choice for parents
What is the purpose of charter schools?
400
The purpose of education is seen as being the primary and most effective instrument of social progress and reform, making things better is why we educate youth and anyone so we can be better and change the social order of things
What is social change purpose?
400
A reform effort towards taking large high schools and reorganizing them into smaller, autonomous schools capped at only a few hundred students
What is small schools movement?
400
This defines knowledge and skills at k-12 level, prepares students for college and workforce positions, are aligned with college and work expectations, informed by other top performing countries. They are not a curriculum, they are a clear set of shared goals and expectations for what knowledge and skills will help our students succeed. These are being created as an initiative by organizations that are representative of government agencies in conjunction with academics and experts.
What is common core standards?
500
This individual views professional development as a process of inspiration and goal setting, knowledge and skill development, inquiry, collaboration and community
Who is Judith Warren Little?
500
An alternative to public schooling, children are often taught by tutors or parents in this less formal setting (outside of an institutional setting)
What is homeschooling?
500
The purpose of education is ensuring the status quo endures, not changing things. In educating students, we are socializing people into what we have, the system and society that exists. Education is a social process by which skills, beliefs, attitudes, and ideas of the previous ideas are passed to new generation and a process of maintenance is necessary.
What is socialization purpose?
500
This author views effective professional development as focused on the improvement of student learning through the improvement of the skill and knowledge of educators
Who is Elmore?
500
The norms, values and social expectations indirectly conveyed to students by the styles of teaching, unarticulated assumptions in teaching materials and the organizational characteristics of educational institutions
What is hidden or implicit curriculum?
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