Teaching Profession
Performance standards for knowledge and skills to be mastered in specific subject areas.
What are national standards?
Rigorous sequences of career and technical and academic courses to prepare students for 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 Project Head Start?
Tests designed to give a measure of students' performance compared with that of a very large number of other students.
What is standardized tests?
The differences in learning and graduation rates among schools; often correlates to differences in school populations and funding.
What is the achievement gap?
Students or groups that have characteristics or experiences that make them more likely to fall academically.
What is at risk?
Skills that can help students learn how to state their needs, negotiate, and collaborate.
What is conflict resolution?
An expanded and more formal relationship between schools and businesses, especially large corporations, in which businesses "adopt" the schools to help in a variety of ways.
What is a corporate-education partnership?
Intimidation through e-mail, social networking sites, and texting.
What is cyberbullying?
When a student loses the right to attend school for a specified period of time.
What is expulsion?
An adult expert who commits to a long-term relationship with a student to provide support, guidance, and help.
Who is a mentor?
Challenge that occurs in school districts with lower levels of income from property taxes; tends to be in urban areas that often have a higher proportion of students who are from low-income families and need a higher level of services.
What is the school funding gap?
The prohibited behaviors and actions that schools will not tolerate--no exceptions.
What is zero tolerance policy?
A theory based on the belief that individuals' behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control.
What is behaviorism?
The theory that behaviors can be associated with responses.
What is classical conditioning?
Processes involving thought and knowledge.
What is cognition?
The way people change and improve in their abilities to think and learn throughout life.
What is cognitive development?
Taking new knowledge and interacting with it by forming a hypotheses, testing it, and making decisions on whether or not to add to one's learning.
What is constructivism?
The gradual increase in skills and abilities that occurs over a lifetime.
What is development?
Explanations formulated by researchers about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time.
What are developmental theories?
Learning that takes place when students actually experience and then reflect on their learning.
What is experimental learning?
Skills that depend on development of the small muscles such as those in the hands and wrists.
What is fine-motor skills?
Physical changes in size, such as gains in height and weight.
What is growth?
Skills that depend on development of the large muscles, including those in the arms, legs, back and shoulders.
What is gross-motor skills?
When people tend to repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced.
What is operant conditioning?