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In teaching, agreements between states that allow certified teachers to teach in one state or another state, which is part of the agreement.
What is reciprocal statements?
A special type of unpaid volunteer effort that combines classroom learning with meaningful hands-on experience to meet community needs.
What is service-learning?
Culmination of the teacher education experience that involves placement of student teachers in public or private school classrooms to immerse themselves in the practice of teaching.
What is student teaching?
Programs that help high school students to explore the teaching profession through classes, observations, and hands-on experiences.
What are teaching academies?
A license or certificate a certified teacher receives from his or her state.
What is a teaching license?
Someone who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping an expert in that trade.
What is an apprentice?
Prepares students for the many career opportunities in specific trades and occupations.
What is career and technical education?
The first public state-supported schools that gave the same education to people from different levels of society.
What are common schools?
Schools in the colonies where students were taught by women in their own homes.
What are dame schools?
A flat wooden board with a handle. A sheet of paper--usually containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals--was pasted on the board. A thin flat piece of clear animal horn was attached to cover and protect the paper. Used during the Colonial Period.
The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori, an Italian doctor, emphasizing self-directed learning through sensory experiences.
What is the Montessori Method?
Teacher-training schools that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.
What are normal schools?
Members of the reform movement during the Progressive Era.
What is are Progressives?
Limits. Immigration laws set limits for people coming to the United States from other countries.
What are quotas?
Measurable proof that schools and teachers are providing high-quality education.
What is accountability?
The great increase in births after the end of World War II.
What is the baby boom?
A reform movement which emphasized the need for more reading, writing, and math in schools for students to succeed in a complex world.
What's back-to-basics movement?
University or college programs that prepare students to become teachers.
What are teacher education programs?
Classes taught in two languages.
What is bilingual education?
A public school that operates with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.
What is a charter school?
A social movement in the United States led primarily by African Americans and their supporters who sought to gain equal rights regardless of race.
What was the civil rights movement?
Schools teach toward students demonstrating mastery and achievement of specified knowledge and skills in subject areas.
What is competency-based education?
Guidelines defining what students at various levels should know and be able to do. Statements about 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 are educational standards?
Finance, international corporations, and trade link the economies of nations around the world--particularly those of major countries.
What is the global economy?
Unable to read or write.
What is illiterate?