Chapter 1 & 2
Most __________ teachers teach in self-contained classrooms.
Elementary
Teachers are expected to have good _____, or conduct based on moral principles.
Ethics
Guidelines that define what students at various levels should know and be able to do are called _____.
Educational Standards
Who developed the theory of operant conditioning?
Skinner
The rate of physical growth and development during the teen years is high, due to _____, the physical transformation from a child to an adult capable of reproduction.
puberty
Which of the following is NOT a common personal quality of effective teachers?
Irritability
The _____ is the "personality" of an organization based on the assumptions, values, standards, behaviors, and actions of people, as well as the tangible signs of an organization.
Organizational Culture
A controversial component of the No Child Left Behind Act was that the receipt of federal educational funds was tied to school _____
Performance
Who developed the sociocultural theory?
Vygotsky
Which factors may influence the timing of puberty?
Heredity, environment, gender
Education for a company’s employees is provided by __________.
Corporate Trainers
Horace Mann established _____ schools, schools that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.
Normal
Program designed to help preschool children from low-income families develop the skills they need for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Project Head Start
A person’s own assessment of himself or herself based on an evaluation of personal abilities, successes, failures, and comments from other people is called _____.
As teens develop, they gradually become able to think in more _____ terms.
A(n) _____ is a personal statement about your thoughts, views, and values as they relate to teaching.
Philosophy of Teaching
____ was responsible for developing the first public system of education.
Thomas Jefferson
Types of government in control of public education
Local, State and Federal
The ability to understand that relationships between two objects can extend to a third object is called _____.
Transitivity
The part of the brain that regulates emotions and impulse control is the ____.
Prefrontal cortex
Programs that help high school students explore the teaching profession through classes, observations, and hands-on experiences are called _____.
Teaching academies
During the _____, the first teachers’ labor union was formed to protect the working rights of teachers.
American Progressive Period (1880-1921)
Cyberbullying can occur via:
email, text, social media
Five-year-olds are unable to solve logic problems involving _____, the ability to understand that something can remain the same even if the way it looks changes.
conservation
Teens’ increasing cognitive abilities help them develop _____, independence that includes personal responsibility and decision making
autonomy